(a.) Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark.
(a.) Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance.
(a.) Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic.
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.
Remanent
Definition:
(a.) That which remains; a remnant; a residue.
(a.) Remaining; residual.
Example Sentences:
(1) For dead cells, this remanent field was constant, but for viable macrophages, the remanent field decreased rapidly so that only 42% of its initial magnitude remained 5 min after alignment.
(2) The remanent rectification was not due to block by the main permeant cation, Na+.
(3) The design principles of instrumentation for magnetizing intracellular particles and for detecting weak remanent magnetic fields are described.
(4) This order effect could be explained by a remanent effect of amisulpride after 6 wash-out weeks.
(5) However this compounds are very expensive and less remanent than D.D.T.
(6) Scratching the itchy lesions often spreads the condition by transplanting the remanent resinous toxin to other parts of the body.
(7) This observation shows that glyceryl thioglycolate may be responsible for allergic contact dermatitis in hairdressers; it emphasizes the long remanence of the allergen in the hair that makes its eviction specially difficult.
(8) After magnetization from outside the chest wall, the remanent magnetic field (RMF) strength generated in the trachea was sequentially measured with a flux-gate magnetometer.
(9) Remanent field strength (RFS) from the AM containing Fe3O4 particles was measured immediately after magnetization.
(10) The CT scan accurately predicted the location of the round window remanent.
(11) The terms "remanent" and "archeomodular" are used to describe a relic modular format, traces of which are shown here to persist despite the changes that have occurred in the primary structures of ribonucleic acids during the course of their evolution.
(12) To study effects of cigarette smoke on the cytoplasmic motility (CM) of alveolar macrophages (AM), we measured remanent field strength (RFS) in guinea pigs with and without systemic capsaicin pretreatment in vivo.
(13) The latter are particular in that they possess remanent antimicrobial properties, given their ability to carry antiseptic molecules.
(14) In comparison with their precursor lipoproteins, the remanants of the triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins are reduced in contents of triacylglycerols and apolipoproteins AI and AIV, whereas the contents of cholesterol (free and esterified) and apolipoprotien E are increased.
(15) It will also determine the degree of remanent articular mobility.
(16) Its presence should be clinically suspected if a mechanical icterus with septic angiocholitis, sometimes associated with an external biliary fistula (from the residual cavity), occurs in the postoperative course of these patients, especially if the primary operation has excluded the remanance of an obstacle at the level of the main bile duct.
(17) They must be seen within the context of the current philosophical approach to the illness, and the economic climate which prevails, at a time when new drugs, for example fludarabine (Leiby et al, 1987; Reman et al, 1988; Whelan et al, 1991), are showing promise, and differentiating agents are being tested in remission (Cunningham et al, 1985).
(18) Subthreshold oscillations could be explained by changes in K conductance together with a remanent of the sodium leakage current.
(19) As a measure of intracellular motility, gamma-Fe2O3 particles in cells were magnetically aligned and the decay rate of the remanent magnetic field (RMF) in the direction of initial magnetization was monitored over time.
(20) The remanent photosensitivity syndrome is characterized by an extreme photosensitivity which may be very disabling, preventing the patient to go outdoors; photo-allergological exploration discloses numerous positive patch-tests or photopatch-tests to various allergens, but the role played by these allergens in the occurrence of photosensitivity remains unclear.