(n.) The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labetalol was more effective than placebo in significantly lowering systolic blood pressure (-11 versus + 5 mm Hg, -23 versus + 4 mm Hg), diastolic blood pressure (-9 versus + 2 mm Hg, -12 versus + 5 mm Hg), and total systemic resistance (-259 versus + 42 dynes-sec cm-5, -390 versus + 74 dynes-sec cm-5) in young and older hypertensive subjects, respectively.
(2) Pulmonary vascular resistance decreased from 2095 to 1333 dynes sec cm-5 with an initial dose of the drug.
(3) The pulmonary hemodynamic response to an acute normobaric inspiratory hypoxia, a fraction of inspired O2 of 0.125 and the balance nitrogen for 10 min, was investigated in a 51-year-old man 11 months before and again 3 wk after he experienced an episode of pulmonary edema while mountaineering near the summit of the Chimborazo (Ecuador) at an altitude of about 5,700 m. Pulmonary vascular resistance increased by 72 and 70 dyne .
(4) Whereas reversibility was demonstrated when the shearing stresses exceeded the elastic resistance [0.17 dyne cm-2 (1.7 muN CM-2)], thorough mixing usually resulted in a normal behavior of the solutions thereafter.
(5) Pulmonary vascular resistance was lower in the group with acute insufficiency (mean 139 dynes sec cm-5) than in the group with chronic severe insufficiency (mean 631 dynes cm-5) (P less than 0.005).
(6) The pre- and postoperative systemic vascular resistance was 1707 and 1941 dynes sec X cm-5, respectively (P greater than 0.2).
(7) It was found that in the venules of the rabbit omentum a white blood cell sticking to the endothelial wall was subjected to a shear force in the range of 4 times 10--5 dynes to 234 times 10--5 dynes; the exact value depended on the size and motion of the white blood cell, the size of the blood vessel, the velocity of the blood flow, and the local hematocrit, which varied between 20% and 40% in venules of about 40 mum in diameter.
(8) Notable exceptions to the third observation were patients with valvular heart disease or a resting pulmonary vascular resistance greater than 800 dyne-sec-cm-5.
(9) Coronary revascularization with high baseline pulmonary vascular resistance (greater than 200 dyne s cm-5).
(10) These changes usually coincided with an increase in osmiophilic inclusion bodies in the large alveolar cell.A concentration of disaturated phosphatidyl choline per milligram DNA in excess of 0.170 mg per mg was associated with a minimal surface tension below 13 dynes per cm (p < 0.001).
(11) Mean arterial pressure ranged from 40 to 65 mm Hg while systemic vascular resistance varied widely, averaging 1575 dyne-sec-cm(-5).
(12) None of the patients with poor ventricular performance had a peak isovolumic rate of change of power that exceeded 25,000 dynes cm sec-2.
(13) The adiabatic compressibility of oxidized thioredoxin was also much larger (9.8-18 x 10(-12) cm2 dyne-1) than that of the reduced protein (3.8-7.3 x 10(-12)).
(14) At 14 to 28 weeks, the surface-active fraction from lung gave a minimum surface tension of 18.1 dynes per centimeter and 7.0 dynes per centimeter by 4 days after birth.
(15) Statistical analysis of the hemodynamic variables revealed that the responders (group 1) had a significant decrease in the pulmonary vascular resistance from 250 dynes second cm-5 at baseline to 155 dynes second cm-5 at 15 minutes after sublingual nifedipine (p less than .05 and 135 dynes second cm-5 at 24 hours while on oral nifedipine.
(16) There were significant changes in mean pO2 (51.8 to 61.9 mmHg; P less than 0.01), pCO2 (55.3 to 47.6 mmHg; P less than 0.001), mean pulmonary artery pressure (41.8 to 34.5 mmHg; P less than 0.01) and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) (346.4 to 163.3 dynes; P less than 0.05).
(17) The approach used in this study involved the application of Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (FTIR) to the analysis of samples taken from the Chem-Dyne remedial action hazardous waste site.
(18) The force required to separate the F1-JY pair is 1.5 X 10(4) dynes per square centimeter.
(19) Linear regression analysis revealed a close relationship between changes in distal coronary pressure (delta DCP) and those in resistance of the stenotic coronary segment (delta RL) represented by the following equation; delta RL (dyne X cm-5 X sec X 10(-3)) = 0.50 X [delta DCP (mmHg)]-6.0 X 10(-2), r = 0.86, p less than 0.01.
(20) A surface tension of less than 56 dynes per centimeter at 120 microliter of extract and less than 46 dynes per centimeter at 220 microliter of extract denoted pulmonary maturity.
Tyne
Definition:
(v. t.) To lose.
(v. i.) To become lost; to perish.
(n.) A prong or point of an antler.
(n.) Anxiety; tine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(2) Heights, weights and head circumferences were obtained from two groups of primary school children: 1016 children from throughout Oxfordshire, a rural county with few areas of deprivation, and 219 children from an economically deprived part of the city of Newcastle on Tyne.
(3) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(4) The English pilot, which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region, will be produced by News 3, a consortium of Trinity Mirror, the Press Association and the TV production company Ten Alps.
(5) While Osborne’s pitchbook was heavy on projects in the major northern cities of Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne, Hammond will attempt to secure investment for other urban areas including Sunderland, Stockport and Ellesmere Port.
(6) Football Weekly Extra: City through, Arsenal out, and the biggest Tyne-Wear derby for decades Read more Chelsea and Arsenal were outplayed by superior teams in the knockout rounds.
(7) One objective of the Kroc Study was to develop methods that would allow valid amalgamation of results from laboratories at the six clinical centers and a central biochemical laboratory at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
(8) The England pilot – which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region – will be contested by ITN's consortium, which is backed by Melvyn Bragg , which includes Johnston Press, Newsquest, Metro Radio and ITV Tyne Tees and Borders news staff.
(9) A survey of the nutrition labelling of 880 varieties of foods on sale in three stores in Newcastle upon Tyne was undertaken in May-July 1989.
(10) UTV, the Northern Ireland ITV franchise holder, is to bid to run a replacement ITV news pilot in the Border and Tyne Tees region, having already thrown its hat into the ring for Wales .
(11) (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear) Miss Dianne Cynthia Gibbons.
(12) Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear) 5.10pm BST Team news ... Liverpool line up as they did against Stoke, while Aston Villa make two changes from the eleven who started against Chelsea.
(13) Maternity units and community in Newcastle upon Tyne.
(14) virus in Newcastle upon Tyne 13 children developed R.S.
(15) The FMB will pilot an adult training scheme with Gateshead college, near Newcastle upon Tyne, starting in March, where 15-20 former military and unemployed people will be retrained using funds from the Local Enterprise Partnership and the Skills Funding Agency.
(16) Patients were identified from the records of the Regional Neurological Centre and Muscular Dystrophy Group laboratories, Newcastle upon Tyne, and by writing to local doctors.
(17) Trinity Mirror has also launched a bid for the English news pilot in the Tyne Tees and Border ITV regions, with Ten Alps and the Press Association.
(18) A silence descended on Greenock and Belfast, the Mersey, the Wear, the Tees and the Tyne, and very few people beyond those localities made a fuss.
(19) The deal adds Meridian and Anglia to Granada's portfolio, joining Yorkshire, Tyne-Tees and LWT.
(20) The antibody with the greatest sensitivity in radioimmunoassay was one raised against human CRF, Ab-code R1 (provided by Dr E. Hillhouse, University of Newcastle upon Tyne).