(1) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(2) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(3) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
(4) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
(5) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(6) Persistence in the treatment of these patients is essential because multiple operations often are necessary to achieve continence.
(7) Ninety-two per cent of patients who irrigated their colostomies gained fecal continence.
(8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
(9) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
(10) 12 children (38%) showed modifications of bladder-sphincter equilibrium, without acquiring socially sufficient continence.
(11) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(12) She attributes her interest in helping the continent to a "better perspective" on life derived from Kabbalah.
(13) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(14) Measurements have been made continously with an electrochemical cell sensitive to oxygen.
(15) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
(16) The potassium concentrations in erythrocytes, serum and urine were continously determined in 3 patients who had taken acetyldigoxin (45 to 100 tablets Novodigal à 0,2 mg) in order to commit suicide.
(17) Besides first follow-up results of patients with bladder substitution or continent urinary diversion, analysis of experimental investigations and functionally comparable clinical conditions enables an insight into potential following physiopathological interrelationships.
(18) We conclude that the Kock continent urostomy offers an important alternative to noncontinent forms of diversion.
(19) On the basis of continence results from these patients, the influence of the primary operation on postoperative anorectal continence is discussed.
(20) Individuals undergoing delayed bladder closure without iliac osteotomy had no notable difference in the incidence of bladder dehiscence (p greater than 0.5) but they had a statistically significant difference in the ability to gain urinary continence (p less than 0.01).
Voluntary
Definition:
(v. t.) Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
(v. t.) Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free.
(v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion.
(v. t.) Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.
(v. t.) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church.
(n.) One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer.
(n.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service.
(n.) One who advocates voluntaryism.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(2) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(3) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
(4) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(5) He got away with a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and served five years.
(6) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(7) Surface EMGs at rest and at voluntary eyelid opening after eyelid closing were investigated.
(8) Voluntary entropion, which has been reported only once before, was photographically documented in a 12-year-old girl.
(9) Criteria for evaluating the data were scanning pattern (voluntary preferred reading direction) and reading performance.
(10) The atrophies of motor cortex seemed to be responsible for the disorder of voluntary movement.
(11) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
(12) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
(13) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(14) The "size principle" is known to dictate the sequence of recruitment of motor neurons during voluntary or reflex activation of muscles.
(15) It is suggested that contracting extrafusal muscle fibres can modulate the discharge pattern of spindle endings and contribute to the variability of discharge during a voluntary contraction.
(16) In erect subjects, voluntary changes of shape at FRC did not change regional volume distribution.
(17) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
(18) Both the extensor indicis and the abductor pollicis longus are functional synergists and are under voluntary control of the brain.
(19) So far there have been 50 voluntary redundancies from editorial and a further 82 commercial jobs have been cut.
(20) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.