(1) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(2) In modification of a method published by Schoenen et al., early (ES 1) and late (ES 2) exteroceptive suppression periods elicited by perioral electrical trigeminus-stimulation during teeth-clenching were recorded with surface electrodes over the temporalis muscles.
(3) Blood pressures were measured before, during, and after one minute of empth-mouth static (isometric) clenching in 41 normotensive (group A) and 22 hypertensive subjects (group C).
(4) The results suggest that canine-protected occlusions do not significantly alter muscle activity during mastication but significantly reduce muscle activity during parafunctional clenching.
(5) We conclude that thermography is useful as an additional diagnostic means in patients with head and face pain, and that the clenching test may increase the amount of information provided.
(6) Post-operative complications included clenching of teeth in 5 patients, vomiting in 2 and excessive salivation in 3.
(7) EMG analysis of the masticatory muscles during gum chewing were observed before and immediately after clenching, and during their recovery periods.
(8) Since they were instructed to clench in full habitual occlusion, transmission from the stimulated area to periodontal receptors of natural teeth is very probable.
(9) On the side where the center of gravity was shifted during clenching, the activities of the masseter, anterior temporal and posterior temporal muscles showed tendency to be higher than those of the opposite, and the durations of chewing cycle and opening phase showed tendency to be shorter.
(10) Evidence is presented for a component of masseter EMG which can be related to the acceleration of bite force during onset of a clench.
(11) A total of 33 of 34 patients with human bites and clenched-fist injuries and 33 of 39 patients with animal bites had aerobic or facultative bacteria isolated from their wounds.
(12) Experimental bruxism, audible, nonfunctional grinding or clenching of the teeth, was provoked in aggressive animals by drugs affecting central dopaminergic systems.
(13) He inhabits a variety of modes: the lecturer, the thinker, the math geek in a hoodie in front of a chalkboard of formulas, the leader with a lightly clenched fist to show decisiveness and determination.
(14) The electric activity of the masseter muscles was recorded when the subjects were doing pinching or grasping with the jaw in positions of rest, clenched, and clenched with gauze.
(15) If you're the sort of limp-wristed L'Oreal man who spends hours in the gym doing botty-clenching exercises, then you're going to love this.
(16) After wearing the P-type, the total EMG activity during clenching in the intercuspal position was decreased, then increased after removal.
(17) The different parameters were investigated by EMG during chewing, by EMG synchronized to an opening force dynamograph during static and dynamic conditions, and by EMG synchronized to videofluorography during the open-close-clench cycle.
(18) Moreover, in these patients the level of symmetry of action in pairs of muscles during maximal clenching was strong, and the splint did not change this level of symmetry.
(19) We describe four cases in which the patients had a clenched jaw and nasotracheal intubation was either contraindicated or several attempts had failed.
(20) Simultaneously the experimenter struck the yoke, clenched in the subject's teeth, with a rubber hammer.
Fold
Definition:
(v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
(v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
(v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
(v. t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
(v. i.) To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
(v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
(v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
(v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
(n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
(n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
(n.) A boundary; a limit.
(v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.
(v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(4) The enzyme was solubilized by Triton X-100 and purified approximately 480-fold by gel filtration and affinity chromatography on alanine methyl ketone-AH-Sepharose 4B.
(5) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
(6) IP3 increased 1.7-fold and IP2 1.6-fold after 20 and 40 s, respectively.
(7) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(8) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(9) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
(10) The estimated DNA compaction ratio (approximately 3-fold) is consistent with a significant degree of nucleosome unfolding in the hyperstimulated BR genes.
(11) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
(12) Transfection of the treated DNA into SOS-induced spheroplasts results in an increase in mutagenesis as great as 50-fold.
(13) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(14) In strains completely deleted for galR, the gene which encodes the Gal repressor, the operon is derepressed by only 10-fold without an inducer.
(15) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(16) TNBS reacts to an extremely small extend with hemoglobin over the concentration range 0.4 to 4 mM whereas FDNB reacts with hemoglobin to a very large extent (50 fold more than TNBS).
(17) Rates of PC in vitro metabolism by liver and kidney cytosolic cysteine conjugate beta-lyases (beta-lyases) were similar, but metabolism by renal mitochondrial beta-lyase occurred at a 3-fold higher rate than the rate obtained with hepatic mitochondrial beta-lyase.
(18) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(19) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
(20) The gene, which is located at chromosome XIII, is transcribed as a mRNA of about 2.7 kilobases, and the amount of message has been found to increase 3- to 4-fold during the culture.