(n.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(2) The median blood levels were lower in hyperacidic subjects and higher in hypoacidic patients; the urinary excretion of the digitalis compound showed no essential differences.
(3) Three cases of simultaneous atrial and a-v junctional tachycardia, related to the administration of digitalis and occurring in a short period of 16 months, are reported.
(4) The model identified the following important variables: sex (relative risk (rr) = 2.4), beta-blocker withdrawal (rr = 2.1), performance on exercise test and digitalis treatment (rr = 2.3, P less than 0.05).
(5) The serum levels were correlated with the clinical signs of digitalis toxicity and the indications for determination of the serum digoxin concentration were established.
(6) The specificity of the treadmill test in patients who had received digitalis was 73%.
(7) There was no evidence of either myocardial infarction, abnormal electrolyte state, or digitalis intoxication.
(8) We also found that drugs with increase [Ca++]i, such as digitalis, exacerbated these abnormalities, whereas drugs that lower [Ca++]i, such as verapamil, or agents that increase cyclic AMP, such as forskolin, prevented them.
(9) The polar EDLF (ouabain-displacing compound 1; ODC-1) fulfills the criteria for the putative natriuretic and vasoactive digitalis-like factor.
(10) As part of a health examination of a representative sample (n = 8,000) of the adult Finnish population, cardiac state was assessed in the 747 digitalis users and the 6,329 non-users who participated in the survey.
(11) The present study demonstrates that adrenal glands removed from rats and then chopped release an immunoreactive digitalis-like material into a serum-free minimal incubation medium.
(12) These observations suggest that the diseased diabetic myocardium shows diminished sensitivity to digitalis toxicity.
(13) The prompt treatment by IV furosemide may be beneficial in the management of massive digitalis overdose.
(14) Prevention of digitalis toxicity in amiodarone-treated patients would therefore require monitoring of thyroid function every three to six months.
(15) Thus, their cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene or perhydrophenanthrene nuclei appear to serve as the minimal pharmacophoric lead structures for bimolecular recognition and to represent chemical models for the chemical nature of endogenous digitalis.
(16) Preoperative use of digitalis was found in 14 (31%) patients in group A and in 18 (12%) patients in group B (p less than 0.01).
(17) Mortality is significantly increased in the 20% to 30% of patients on digitalis who are in a toxic state when admitted to the hospital.
(18) The acute effects of oral enoximone on rest and exercise hemodynamics, ejection fraction, aerobic metabolism, exercise capacity, and arrhythmias were studied in 11 patients with moderate to moderately severe dilative cardiomyopathy after 8 days of enoximone (100 mg tid) in addition to baseline therapy (diuretics and digitalis).
(19) The digitalis-like substance (DLS), insulin resistance, and hyperglycemia are ascribed important roles in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension.
(20) All patients were pretreated with digitalis and diuretics, some also with conventional vasodilators.
Herbaceous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Volumetric levels of pollens derived from broad-leaved herbaceous plant species heve been determined at a midwestern urban site with suction and rotating arm samplers.
(2) Drinks at Jade Bar are in keeping with the spa setting: fruity and herbaceous “muddles” (alcoholic or not) are a speciality, and the bartenders host mixology sessions on Sundays, or by appointment.
(3) In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, larvae and nymphs of Ablyomma marmoreum Koch occur in habitats in which there is tree cover and herbaceous ground cover.
(4) Farmers are battling with new and variant diseases, and globalisation has meant a huge increase in the risk of new plant diseases, affecting everything from crops to people's herbaceous borders.
(5) Sieve cells and sieve tube members can be macerated from the phloem of various organs of woody and herbaceous species by autoclaving the tissue in a mild macerating medium.
(6) Herbaceous taxa were well represented in the atmospheric sample.
(7) Beware, however, that even if you manage to remove a large proportion of the blighters, they are likely to repopulate your herbaceous borders alarmingly quickly.
(8) Based on an inferred phylogeny, the catalytic domain of ChiX is more closely related to the basic chitinases of herbaceous plants than are either Win6 or Win8.
(9) Bacteria were obtained from 30% of the ovules, 15% of the seeds of herbaceous plants, 16% of the seeds of woody plants, 5.4% of the overwintered noncereal seeds, and 13.5% of overwintered cereal seeds.
(10) Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDS) were used to localize manganese from KMnO4, and bromine, as ultrastructural stains for lignin in an herbaceous plant.
(11) It might be tricky to limit your time at this Elizabethan mansion, with its parkland sculpture trails, wonderful herbaceous borders and a prize-winning produce garden.
(12) Herbaceous piths appear to be a vital resource for African forest apes, offering an alternative energy supply when fruits are scarce.
(13) The botanical origin specified in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia (1985 edition) includes the dried herbaceous stems of Ephedra sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge and E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey.
(14) Practise the "Chelsea chop" (so called because it is done around Flower Show time, the end of May), according to how much growth has developed, cutting back by half herbaceous plants such as the taller sedums, asters, phlox, heleniums and chrysanthemums to reduce transpiration and encourage them to make bushier plants that won't need staking.
(15) Most fruity, floral, minty, and herbaceous odorants stimulate the enzyme.
(16) Infusions and decoctions of the leaves, roots and inflorescences of the herbaceous shrub Chenopodium ambrosioides (American wormseed, goosefoot, epazote, paico) and related species indigenous to the New World have been used for centuries as dietary condiments and as traditional anthelmintics by native peoples for the treatment of intestinal worms.
(17) The method enabled the highly sensitive detection of a number of morphologically different viruses in purified preparations and in unclarified extracts of herbaceous hosts and of infected crop plants.
(18) It is also found that the degree of lignification of fibres and medullary cells of the herbaceous stems is related to the positions and diameters of the stems.
(19) In an attempt to correlate the high incidence of esophageal carcinoma in natives of certain places with their habit of using herbaceous folk medicines, we performed bioassays of several plant extracts and the fractions prepared from them.
(20) Chinese herbal remedies are derived from animal, mineral, as well as arboreous and herbaceous sources.