(a.) Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.
(n.) The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
(3) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(4) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(5) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
(6) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(7) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(8) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
(9) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
(10) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(11) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(12) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(13) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(14) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(15) To determine the diagnostic and discriminative value of these subisoenzymes in polymyositis, we analyzed CK and its MM subisoenzyme forms in serum samples from 22 patients with myositis and from 23 controls.
(16) Older subjects in all diagnostic categories, including normal subjects, had higher postdexamethasone plasma cortisol levels.
(17) Despite significant differences in mean response, there was a large overlap of individual responses between diagnostic subgroups.
(18) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
(19) We conclude that inflammatory lesions at these sites are not uncommon and that CT scans are diagnostic in the great majority.
(20) We report on experiences with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and the results of vocational rehabilitation.
Plethysmography
Definition:
(n.) The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rate of ascites formation or reabsorption was recorded in anesthetized cats using the technique of intraperitoneal plethysmography.
(2) The validation of the VSC technique with venous occlusion plethysmography (VOP) showed that the increase of time of disappearance of the wheals is well correlated with the increase of capillary permeability demonstrated by VOP.
(3) Forearm blood flow was measured by plethysmography in 13 patients.
(4) We also examined the effects of the infusion of two litres of dialysate on airways resistance (Raw) using total body plethysmography and on arterial blood gasses.
(5) The drugs were infused into the brachial artery, and forearm blood flow (by strain-gauge plethysmography), systemic blood pressure and heart rate were measured concomitantly.
(6) Measurements of hand blood flow were made by calorimetry and of forearm, calf, and foot blood flows by straingauge venous occlusion plethysmography at rest (Ta = 22 degrees C) and during rewarming.
(7) Leg (LBF) and foot (FBF) blood flows were measured with plethysmography and skin blood flow (SBF) was evaluated from laser-Doppler flowmetry and temperature recordings.
(8) Photoelectric plethysmography scores were reduced in all groups but did not differ significantly between groups.
(9) A temperature test and plethysmography suggested improvement in finger circulation only during the first three years and one year of treatment, respectively.
(10) The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between recruitment of the DI and SM muscles measured as EMG signal amplitudes, the pattern of respiratory muscle recruitment measured with inductive plethysmography, and the intensity of the sensation of dyspnea, measured with 100 mm VAS.
(11) When evaluating the results of functional tests, it is expedient to use a combination of the parameters of spirography, the curve of forced expiration flow-volume and general plethysmography and in the choice of method preference should be given to the registration of the curve of forced expiration flow-volume.
(12) To determine limb haemodynamic effects, we measured calf blood flow and venous capacitance by venous occlusion plethysmography before and after oral labetalol in 10 patients 3-7 days following coronary bypass surgery.
(13) The pressure-flow technique was used to estimate nasal cross-sectional size, and inductive plethysmography was used to assess nasal-oral breathing.
(14) Ventilation was monitored using respiratory inductive plethysmography and swallowing was recorded by submental electromyogram.
(15) The utilization of venous occlusion plethysmography in the routine diagnosis of acute venous thrombosis in the leg has disclosed a previously unreported type of biphasic venous emptying curve that has proved to be of special diagnostic significance.
(16) We conclude that the gas dilution methods and plethysmography with a pressure-compensated volume displacement plethysmograph gave estimates of TLC which agreed even in patients with airway obstruction or emphysema, except in patients with very severe lung disease.
(17) To examine whether the so-called musculovenous pump counteracts the development of interstitial edema in the lower extremities of man in the upright position, the volume changes in the calf which occurred during twenty minutes of rhythmic muscular exercise were measured in twenty-three subjects by impedance-plethysmography.
(18) The examinations were performed under clinical control and impedance plethysmography.
(19) Forearm blood flow was measured by venous occlusion strain-gauge plethysmography.
(20) Acute infusions of both angiotensins produced dose-dependent decreases in blood flow (measured by venous occlusion plethysmography).