(1) The highest cost for veterinary services related to episodes of disease were for dystocia, lameness, and ocular carcinoma.
(2) Almost half (47.6%) of all deliveries with shoulder dystocia occurred in association with the delivery of an average-weight infant (under 4000 g).
(3) Delivery must be carried out via natural passages in the absence of obstetrical dystocia.
(4) Cesarean section can be an elective procedure but more often it is an emergency procedure that is made necessary because of dystocia.
(5) Purebred Friesian calves out of Jersey recipients were Friesian weight (male, 44.8 kg; female, 37.4 kg) and contrary to experience with crossbreds caused severe dystocia problems.
(6) Heavier calves, winter calvings, and earlier parity all were related to increased dystocia.
(7) Three of 8 goats on a Maryland farm aborted or had dystocia associated with toxoplasmosis during the winter of 1984.
(8) Both the dilation rate prior to epidural placement and the cervical dilation at epidural placement were significantly correlated to frequency of cesarean section for dystocia (p less than 0.01).
(9) Two cases of dystocia due to retroperitoneal tumours of the nervous system are described, as well as the patients' course, obstetric management and a review of the literature.
(10) A shortage of oxytocin secretion may not, however, be the main cause of the dystocia in pelvic-neurectomized rats.
(11) In Group A, 2 mares retained the placenta for greater than 3 h, 3 mares had dystocia and all 4 mares had thickened, haemorrhagic placentae.
(12) A case-control study (73 cases, 146 controls) was conducted to evaluate maternal, obstetrical and fetal factors associated with shoulder dystocia.
(13) However, a new obstetric instrument (shoulder born) has been developed by the author that may prove to be of value in the management of shoulder dystocia by forming a channel which facilitates delivery of the anterior shoulder with minimal trauma.
(14) Ninety-eight cases of shoulder dystocia, an incidence of 0.45%, occurred in Farwania Hospital, Kuwait during 1985-1987.
(15) Its presence during pregnancy may require genetic counseling, anticipation of dystocia and a search for an underlying serious medical disease, the presenting symptom of which may be chronic constipation.
(16) The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that convenience for the physician plays a role in the rate of cesarean section performed because of dystocia.
(17) The cesarean section group was matched for the immediate indication for delivery (dystocia or fetal distress), birth weight, gestational age, sex, and race.
(18) Differences in section rates for dystocia were greatest in the second stage (low-2.4%, high-7.9%).
(19) The entry of meconium into both mother and neonate occurs at a higher rate in dystocia and in cases with meconium-stained amniotic fluid (p less than 0.05).
(20) Textbooks and literature reports frequently view the primipara of advanced age as a group being at increased risk of prolonged labor, dystocia, injuries to the birth canal and fetal distress.
Slow
Definition:
(v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
(n.) A moth.
() imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
(superl.) Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
(superl.) Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
(superl.) Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
(superl.) Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
(superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
(superl.) Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
(superl.) Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.
(adv.) Slowly.
(v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(3) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(5) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(6) In electrophysiological studies with neurons of Lymnaea stagnalis, THA inhibited the slow outward K+ current and consequently increased the duration of the action potentials.
(7) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(8) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
(9) In the absence of haemodialysis, the decline in plasma concentrations of lisinopril and enalaprilat was extremely slow and plasma concentrations were generally high.
(10) Thus serum ionized calcium in untreated essential hypertensive patients may predict the blood pressure response to the slow calcium channel blocker verapamil.
(11) Our results suggest that during simulated ischemia the rate-dependent component of the increase in Ri contributes to the rate-dependence of the conduction slowing.
(12) Recovery after EEDQ administration showed that both receptor production rate and degradation rate constants of anterior pituitary D2 and striatal D1 receptors were slowed after chronic estradiol treatment, whereas recovery rates for striatal D2 dopamine receptors were unaffected.
(13) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(14) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(15) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
(16) A calcium dependent potassium conductance was probably involved in the slow phase, because it was sensitive to inorganic calcium blockers.
(17) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(18) The slow alpha-lipoprotein was distributed in the range of densities between low density and high density lipoproteins and was rich in apoprotein E. This abnormal lipoprotein of PBC was observed in those in Stages II and III but not in those in Stage I.
(19) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(20) And that's exciting, you've got no time to slow it down.