(n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
(n.) The breastplate taken by itself.
(n.) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are reported of domiciliary cuirass respirator treatment, using tailor-made shells, in four patients with severe thoracic scoliosis.
(2) A second article will consider the period 1918 to the present day and suggest that negative pressure apparatus-particularly the cuirass respirator-still has its uses.
(3) Of the 8 patients with typical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 7 had predominant diaphragm weakness and 1 generalized respiratory muscle weakness; 7 received negative pressure ventilation by cuirass which improved both the quality of sleep and exercise tolerance.
(4) Nocturnal cuirass ventilation appears to be an ideal treatment for bilateral diaphragm paralysis.
(5) The methods of support used were intermittent positive pressure ventilation (nine patients), iron lung (three), cuirass (two) and rocking bed (one).
(6) Overnight monitoring of cuirass pressure in one patient showed more even control of peak negative pressure with the Newmarket pump than with the Cape pump.
(7) The pressure within the cuirass is sensed by a pressure transducer, and the output of this is used to control the position of the rotary valve by means of a motor so that the pressure within the cuirass follows a predetermined half sine wave pattern.
(8) Nocturnal desaturation was associated not only with hypopnea and hypoventilation, but with normal chest and abdominal wall movement using cuirass-assisted respirators.
(9) Although the absolute increments were similar, the "tight" cuirass elicited an earlier PRL peak than the "loose" cuirass and the PRL began to decrease while the "tight" cuirass was still functioning.
(10) The therapeutic effects of cuirass ventilation were studied in two patients with bilateral diaphragm paralysis.
(11) Because changing from the upright to the supine position causes a decrease in functional residual capacity (FRC), six of these subjects were placed in an Emerson cuirass, which was evacuated producing a positive transrespiratory pressure so as to restore end-expiratory lung volume to that seen before the position change.
(12) The function of the respiratory muscles may in certain cases be improved by the use of abdominal pneumatic cuirasses, by hyperventilation exercises in an isocapnoeic milieu or in breathing exercises against an additional inspiratory or expiratory resistance.
(13) The mean (SD) number of days spent in hospital over the year was 21.5 (15.1) per patient, with patients consulting their general practitioners less frequently than in the year prior to commencing nocturnal cuirass-assisted ventilation.
(14) We developed a triggered cuirass respirator and showed that it could support the right heart after a lung resection.
(15) We conclude that INPV by cuirass ventilator does not induce adverse hemodynamic effects in patients with COPD who have pulmonary artery hypertension.
(16) Nocturnal NPV in a cuirass ventilator improved baseline ventilation during wakefulness and prevented deterioration of alveolar ventilation during sleep.
(17) 2 of these cases were changed from cuirass type BR to jacket type BR and were getting on satisfactorily.
(18) This 70 year old patient presented with a 24 year history of untreated breast cancer (histology: carcinoma solidum simplex) that had developed to a cancer "en cuirasse" with disturbances in both breast glands, carcinomatous infiltration of the barrel-shaped deformed thorax and superficial bleeding from a large area of ulcerated tissue.
(19) A rotary valve between the pump and the cuirass varies the rate of extraction of air from the cuirass.
(20) The cost of commencing a patient on domiciliary nocturnal cuirass-assisted ventilation is estimated as 2470 pounds, and of maintaining them at home for one year as 3302 pounds.
Lorica
Definition:
(n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.
(n.) Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.
(n.) The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.
Example Sentences:
(1) When sufficient strips have been produced the lorica is rapidly assembled.
(2) Division in Acanthoeca results in the production of a juvenile, flagellated, protoplast without a lorica.
(3) Effects of tetraethyl lead (TEL) and derivatives triethyl lead (TriEL), diethyl lead (DiEL), and inorganic lead (Pb) on lorica formation of the unicellular alga Poterioochromonas malhamensis were investigated by light and electron microscopy.
(4) The two taxa are distinguished from each other by the arrangement of costae forming the lorica chamber.
(5) The absence of continuity between the three anterior spines and any of the six longitudinal costae present at the front end of the lorica chamber is confirmed, but a range of conditions involving numerical reduction in costal numbers at the hind end is illustrated.
(6) Shape of the lorica and mode of attachment to the host are not generic characteristics in the Lagenophryidae.
(7) Lagenophryid lorica apertures consisting of opposing lips probably evolved as tight seals to prevent water loss when the host is temporarily out of water.
(8) Among the diagnostic structural features, special interest attaches to the position of the anterior transverse costa which is located unusually far back in comparison with other members of the genus; it is also shown to be within and not outside the ring of four longitudinal costae building up the lorica chamber, although this feature can only be ascertained by scanning.
(9) Low concentrations of TriEL (5 to 7.5 microM) selectively disturbed lorica formation, causing formation of numerous stalk-less loricae which exhibited gross and ultrastructural alterations like those induced by the antimitotic drug colchicine.
(10) From the inhibitory effects of TriEL and the close qualitative similarities to the effects of colchicine, it is concluded that TriEL selectively interferes with cytoplasmic and mitotic MTs of the algae, thereby causing the observed inhibitory effects on lorica formation, mitosis, and cytokinesis.
(11) Lagenophryid genera differ in gross structure of the lorica aperture and the peristomial sphincter associated with it.
(12) TEL, largely ineffective as such, inhibited lorica formation of P. malhamensis when the lead compound was illuminated during or before the experiment.
(13) Inorganic lead was even less toxic and did not selectively inhibit lorica formation of the algae.
(14) Lorica formation is microtubule (MT)--mediated and disturbed by agents interfering with MTs.
(15) These include elaborate and constant details of assembly at the anterior end of the lorica, combined with much greater variability at the hind end.
(16) fam., which is characterized by possession of a lorica, lack of a closure apparatus operated by the peristomial sphincter, and possession of an operculariform peristome.