(n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(2) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(4) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(6) All of the serotonergic antagonists studied had additional effects on the response of the coronary artery to electrical stimulation or to norepinephrine.
(7) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(8) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(9) Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways at intensities just below threshold for eliciting action potentials resulted in a dramatic decrease in JSCP threshold.
(10) Average temperature changes observed were less than 1 degree C. The present study demonstrates that the electrically evoked response in mammalian brain can be altered by ultrasound in a non-thermal, non-cavitational mode, and that such effects are potentially reversible.
(11) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
(12) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
(13) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
(14) The intermandibularis is probably present only in electric rays.
(15) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(16) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(17) It is suggested that intra-endothelial conduction of electrical signals from capillaries to the resistance vessels may be involved in the local regulation of blood flow in the intact heart.
(18) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(19) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(20) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
Unplug
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In Patient 2, rhinorrhoea and presumably entry of infection was facilitated by unplugging of a defect in the wall of the sphenoid sinus by bromocriptine-induced shrinkage of the pituitary adenoma.
(2) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
(3) She performed an emotional rendition of Open Your Heart at this year's Grammy awards as 33 couples were wed onstage during a performance by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, and also guested on Miley Cyrus's MTV Unplugged set.
(4) Rather than having to manually unplug or switch off household electrical devices to save energy, plug-and-play technology for the home automatically detects all idle devices and disables them remotely.
(5) To underline the case that Scotland would be left out in the cold in what it calls an "intelligence unplugged" scenario, it stresses that GCHQ's capabilities to intercept the content of phone calls, emails and other communications and to acquire the communications data or metadata tracking individuals' internet and phone use, make "an enormous contribution to the prevention and detection of crime throughout the UK".
(6) For all The Tube's faults, from the unplugged microphone given to a striking miner to providing Kajagoogoo with microphones that were tragically plugged in, it might just have been as rampageous as live music television will ever get.
(7) It’s also worth remembering Nirvana’s spectral cover of The Man Who Sold the World , immortalised on their Unplugged Live in New York performance recorded five months before Kurt Cobain’s death, which indicated exactly how much alternative American music owed to Bowie.
(8) Measurements were made during inhalation of 26-30% stable xenon gas for 8 min and serial scanning utilizing a state-of the-art CT scanner with both eyes closed and ears unplugged.
(9) We cannot unplug our society any more The last preparatory step is to understand the depth of the consequences of our decisions in designing the infosphere.
(10) The only way you can securely communicate with another individual ... is to do it in person, unplugged, because virtually everything else, as Snowden’s work describes, could be residing in a database that a prosecutor could access to build a criminal prosecution.
(11) I suggest that ADH stimulation ultimately leads either to formation (or enlargement) of pores, by the rearrangement of preexisting subunits, or to an unplugging of these pores.
(12) These aqueous pores are similar in conductance to those previously observed in mammalian endoplasmic reticulum when puromycin is used to release and thus unplug nascent translocating chains.
(13) The eyes with the punctal plugs showed a statistically significant (P less than .0001) decrease in pressure of 1.32 mm Hg after punctal occlusion when compared to that of the fellow control unplugged eyes.
(14) But I reject this: if you want to do something to help someone in distress, as George Carlin famously riffed, unplug their clogged toilet or paint the garage .
(15) In the last few weeks I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Clinton on Trump: ‘It makes you want to unplug the internet or just look at cat gifs’ The first lady, Michelle Obama, also hit the campaign trail for Clinton, giving a fiery rebuke to Trump in a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
(16) 2.4%, we experienced unplugging of the anterior 12 o'clock positioned loop, apparently a result of the loop being held with the insertions forceps during insertion.
(17) Commenting on her opponent’s troubles – and the travails of the election, generally – she said: “It makes you want to unplug the internet – or just look at cat gifs.
(18) That's all far away; Burkhart would unplug and go home and be stuck with a body that still didn't follow his orders, at least not yet.
(19) So all credit to those who gamely struggled through the whole of the first telly Brexit debate, featuring David Cameron live and unplugged on Sky News .
(20) "[Having to] sell your homes, unplug your kids from school.