(n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
(n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
(n.) To betroth; to affiance.
(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
(v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
(v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
(a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
(a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
(n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.
(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(3) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(4) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(5) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(6) Twitch-tetanus ratios were calculated and found not to be related to unit contraction time.6.
(7) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
(8) The increased muscular strength in due to a rise of calcaemia, improved muscle contraction and probably also due to the mentioned nutritional factors.
(9) However, there was not a relationship between the contraction curve of the gallbladder and the bile flow into the duodenum.
(10) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(11) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(12) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(13) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(14) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
(15) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
(16) The power spectrum of the EMG was analyzed during isometric contractions of the shoulder muscles.
(17) A23187 had only a transient effect on KCl-contracted coronary arteries.
(18) When caffeine evokes a contraction, and only then, crayfish muscle fibers become refractory to a second challenge with caffeine for up to 20 min in the standard saline (5 mM K(o)).
(19) Dopamine at concentrations over 10(-5)M induced contractions of tracheal muscle strips and repeated exposures resulted in desensitization (tachyphylaxis) of the muscle.
(20) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
Pulsate
Definition:
(v.) To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microotoscopy showed a blue pulsating mass behind the tympanic membrane.
(2) The surface activity of two surfactant preparations, Lipid Extract Surfactant (LES) and Survanta, was examined during adsorption and dynamic compression using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
(3) The absence or reduction of CSF pulsation may prove to be a valuable indicator of the success of a shunting procedure.
(4) The use of in-phase TEs was preferable to maintain tissue contrast, and presaturation pulses were employed to eliminate vascular pulsation artifacts.
(5) During the gradual change in cuff pressure, the amplitude of consecutive arterial volume pulsations associated with pulse pressure shows change characteristically due to the nonlinearity of arterial pressure-volume(P-V) relation.
(6) Free serotonin may become adsorbed to the arterial wall, thus increasing sensitivity to pain, augmenting afferent input and adding a pulsating quality to migrainous pain.
(7) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
(8) Prominent carotid arterial pulsations were detected which distinguished the condition clinically from aortic atresia.
(9) CO diminished in fast expiration, and a phase shift between the heart pulsation and the CO was seen; both agree with experimental findings.
(10) Toward these ends, various devices and techniques have been developed, including several different types of vascular shunts in combination with or without extracorporeal oxygenation of blood, implantable auxiliary ventricle and augmentation of diastolic pressure by direct counter pulsation of blood through femoral cannulae or intra-aortic balloon.The sequenced counter pulsator is an external cardiac assist device being developed for the therapy of low output syndromes.
(11) At each time of harvesting, the implants were patent and showed arterial pulsations.
(12) The venous part regulates the venous inflow volume by the feedback type mechanism; the arterial part ensures complete EC in the pulsating mode during cardiosurgical intervention and auxiliary EC in the course of heart activity recovery after cardioplegia, promoting an increase of the coronary blood flow and synchronized blood supply.
(13) In a series of patients with chronic corneal diseases treated with soft contact lenses, good pressure and intraocular pulsations were recorded both with and without the soft lenses.
(14) If the anemia is severe, palpitations, otic pulsations, and cardiac decompensation are common.
(15) Most are used in the asynchronous full-to-empty mode, but they also may be used in a synchronous counter-pulsation mode.
(16) Using the pulsating bubble surfactometer, it could be demonstrated that surfactant mixed with this antibody had a significant higher minimum surface tension when compared with surfactant alone, or surfactant mixed with an unrelated mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG).
(17) In normal subjects stimulation of the vesicourethral junction was described as a stimulus-synchronous pulsation combined with a continuous burning feeling and sometimes with a desire to void.
(18) The ability of antisera and monoclonal antibodies to inhibit the functional activity of surfactant was assayed using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
(19) A mathematical model was derived expressing the amplitude of container pulsation (delta Po) as a function of mean intraluminal pressure (MPi), mean container pressure (MPo) and arterial pulse amplitude (delta Pi): delta Po = (-2(MPi - MPo) + b) (MPo + 1) delta Pi.
(20) Since it was easier to build equipment that recorded pulsations in amplitude, most work was confined to the recording of amplitude pulsations.