What's the difference between ductus and fist?

Ductus


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
  • (2) Rapid diagnosis and treatment of patent ductus arteriosus and appropriate fluid intake are also essential for a favourable outcome in newborn infants with severe RDS treated with surfactant.
  • (3) Seven infants (group 1) received indomethacin to treat a clinically significant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and eight infants (group 2) received indomethacin prophylactically at 24 hours of age because of their high risk for PDA.
  • (4) PGE2 was also released from ductus preparations lacking the adventitia, the intima, or both; however, release values were maximal when the adventitia was preserved.
  • (5) The most commonly associated lesions were ventricular septal defect (50%), hypoplastic aortic arch (45%), patent ductus arteriosus (41%), transposition of great arteries (22.7%) and other intracardiac lesions comprised 30%.
  • (6) These observations differed from the previous literature data: a parallel could be found only with the concept (connected with oxygen radicals) of the early closure of the ductus arteriosus.
  • (7) In the apneic fetuses showing respiratory distress, the lung was collapsed and the ductus arteriosus was not closed.
  • (8) Prostaglandin E2 was administered to 22 newborns with ductus-dependent cyanotic congenital heart disease.
  • (9) Associated lesions were coarctation (n = 2) and patent ductus arteriosus (n = 2).
  • (10) Reduced glutathione increased PGE2 release from the mature ductus, whole or stripped, and also relaxed hypoxic preparations; both effects were reversed by concomitant treatment with indomethacin.
  • (11) We have recently 'challenged' a neonate with dextrocardia, vesceral heterotaxia, presumed asplenia, and complex congenital heart disease including pulmonary atresia, with an infusion of prostaglandin E1 to increase pulmonary blood flow via his ductus arteriosus.
  • (12) Through our experience and a review, we have observed that neonates requiring coarctation repair, pulmonary artery banding, and patent ductus ligation are at high risk of expiring before reaching an age at which a difficult total repair is feasible.
  • (13) The prevention of ductus closure by p.g.E-1 infusions over the first few weeks of life is a possiblility.
  • (14) Patent ductus arteriosus murmurs developed in shielded patients at a later date, they required less vigorous treatment (ie, indomethacin), and they had shorter hospitalizations (74 v 85 days; P less than .05).
  • (15) Rashkind's "double umbrella" technique for percutaneous transcatheter occlusion of patent arterial duct (ductus arteriosus) has been used successfully in several centres.
  • (16) In contrast, a rich AChE+ve nerve network was observed in the submucosa of both the seminal vesicle and the ductus deferens.
  • (17) The PAS and protein cytochemistry reactivities observed in both these cells, of the ductus epithelial lining, but especially in the light cells, are suggestive of mucopolysaccharides and protein complexes synthesis and secretion.
  • (18) We believe that all fetuses of mothers treated with indomethacin should be closely monitored for early evidence of decreased amniotic fluid volume and constriction of the ductus arteriosus.
  • (19) Since the epididymal contractions can influence the time spent by spermatozoa in passing through the ductus epididymidis, the above-mentioned compounds could play an important role in spermatozoal transport via modulation of epididymal contractile activity.
  • (20) Several dogs with successfully occluded ductus were observed from two weeks to six months postoperative.

Fist


Definition:

  • (n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
  • (n.) The talons of a bird of prey.
  • (n.) the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
  • (v. t.) To strike with the fist.
  • (v. t.) To gripe with the fist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
  • (2) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (3) The "respect the game" police are back, (do they ever go away) and after Adrian Gonzalez, who dared to pump his fists following a fourth inning double that brought home LA's first run of the game.
  • (4) The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.
  • (5) Ipso, he concluded, wants to come to this performance “armed with a slim clear book of rules and not with an iron fist”.
  • (6) I get to make jokes and pound my fist and get retweets and faves because I’m a comedian.
  • (7) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
  • (8) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
  • (9) Globiz hopes there's no repeat of last year's Star Magic Ball where Salvador prompted a major fist-fight to break out between two of the country's hottest young actors, Matteo Guidicelli and Coco Martin (think the R-Patz and Taylor Lautner of the Philippines).
  • (10) 62 min: Lyon win another corner, which McGregor fists away cleanly.
  • (11) The people of Iran, the region, Israel, America and the world deserve better than a deal that consolidates the grip on power of the violent revolutionary clerics who rule Tehran with an iron fist.” Here’s what members of the Bush team have said individually about the deal, since its announcement on Monday and in the weeks that led up to the announcement: Paul Wolfowitz , deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, on Fox News : A bad deal is much worse than nothing.
  • (12) He had poor head control, hypertonia, and persistent fisting, and died at age 2 months.
  • (13) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
  • (14) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
  • (15) But Kiki Bertens, a smiling, 23-year-old Dutch qualifier who looked pleased just to be here, made a decent fist of her impossible assignment in dappled light on Arthur Ashe and pushed Serena Williams at least to the lower slopes of anxiety on day three of the 2015 US Open.
  • (16) During the first 2 min of hypoxia, glucose consumption was increased to twice the normal, and during the fist 2 min of hypercapnia, the corresponding value was less thane third of the normal.
  • (17) No, not Gordon Brown, although there were times when today's sleights of hand and burying of bad news had strong echoes of the clunking fist at its worst.
  • (18) Two groups of substernal goiters should be considered fist; the "simples" ones localised in the anterior and superior part of the mediastin.
  • (19) Malema became known as tough, playing dirty against those who opposed him for office, disbanding branches of the organisation that did not support him and at times taking to his opponents with his fists.
  • (20) A total of 33 of 34 patients with human bites and clenched-fist injuries and 33 of 39 patients with animal bites had aerobic or facultative bacteria isolated from their wounds.

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