(a.) Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
(a.) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.
(n.) That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
(n.) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
(n.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(3) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(4) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
(5) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.
(6) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(7) To clarify the functional roles of His40, Glu58, and His92, we analyzed the consequences of several amino acid substitutions (His40Ala, His40Lys, His40Asp, Glu58Ala, Glu58Gln, and His92Gln) on the kinetics of GpC transesterification.
(8) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(9) It is concluded that TRH is a specific activator of enteric excitatory pathways and that duodenal inhibition seen in control animals is a consequence of gastro-duodenal inhibitory reflexes.
(10) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(11) The patoc antigens types reacted with the control group in 7.24, 86.95 and 84.05% of the samples, and consequently were eliminated from the present study.
(12) This study describes the consequences of acute prostaglandin synthesis inhibition on the hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in patients with stable angina pectoris.
(13) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(14) In electrophysiological studies with neurons of Lymnaea stagnalis, THA inhibited the slow outward K+ current and consequently increased the duration of the action potentials.
(15) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(16) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(17) In one case an infection of the axillary region developed, which disappeared after removal of the catheter without any consequences.
(18) This is interpreted to be a consequence of the adsorption of Ca2+ on the vesicle bilayers.
(19) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(20) The authors discuss the results of the diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the right hepatic lobe which were consequent upon ischemic necrosis; they were encountered after cholecystectomy in 0.15% of cases.
Splint
Definition:
(v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
(v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
(v. t.) A splint bone.
(v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
(v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
(v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
(v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
(v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(2) The pain response will be significantly better than the dysfunction response when the patient is treated with an occlusal splint.
(3) A review of the data on splinting of hands in RA is included, as is a review of methods for evaluating hand function and staging RA.
(4) 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.
(5) Primary sternal closure was difficult and delayed closure was performed using splint with a resin plate.
(6) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(7) Histological evaluation was performed after splinting periods of 48 h and 6 weeks.
(8) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
(9) Since fractures of the foramen triosseum are usually not surgically repairable, they can be stabilized with coaptation splints.
(10) The MMPS is now the preferred splint at the Royal Brisbane Hospital Burns Unit.
(11) To study the influence of splints on the periodontia over a period of time, Obwegeser and Merkx splints were applied on beagles.
(12) Just over one-third of respondents never or 'rarely' (less than 1 in 50 cases) used splints for procedures involving both walls of the nasal cavity.
(13) Long-term rubbing of a pressure stocking and splint was believed to be responsible for breakdown in the graft of the patient who had a hypertrophic scar.
(14) The use of the splint is a very important step in the treatment of the dysfunctional patient.
(15) Ninety-two patients with tendon rupture or chip fracture were treated by splinting, and 42 percent of them had a decreased range of motion, mostly of a minor degree, but only 18 percent stated complaints at the follow-up examination.
(16) Postoperative use of very small polyethylene tubing for splints appears feasible.
(17) This test has been reliable in evaluating lacrimal function and suggests that a canaliculus can be repaired and splinted satisfactorily.
(18) This report summarizes the experience of treating seven extremity melanoma patients with early immobilization and discharge using plaster casting or splinting following wide local excision and split-thickness skin graft.
(19) Orthodontic appliances (83.9%) were used in the departments of orthodontics for intermaxillary fixation, while orthodontic appliances (47.8%) and wire splints (49.2%) were used in the departments of oral surgery.
(20) Night splints or operative procedures are rarely indicated.