(a.) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
(v. t.) To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.
Example Sentences:
(1) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(2) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
(3) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(4) Only candidacidal activity was enhanced in FCA-elicited peritoneal macrophages (median C. albicans killed 28% versus 16% for resident peritoneal macrophages, p less than 0.01).
(5) The 0.1 M phosphate buffer eluant was electrophoretically heterogeneous and did not elicit the production of bactericidal antibodies in rabbits.
(6) Chronic CHP administration elicited significant increase in both KD and Bmax of striatal mazindol-binding sites (labelling DA transporter complex), but no change in either D1- or D2-type DA receptors.
(7) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.
(8) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(9) Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways at intensities just below threshold for eliciting action potentials resulted in a dramatic decrease in JSCP threshold.
(10) SPRs were elicited either by stimulating the reticular formation or the distal end of the median nerve.
(11) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
(12) These data indicate that the sfrB gene product is a regulatory element, since the single gene product elicits the expression of genes for many products for F expression and lipopolysaccharide synthesis.
(13) Accordingly, the present studies were conducted to determine whether acute OVX-induced FSH hypersecretion can be elicited in an animal model in which the anterior pituitary gland is isolated from diencephalic chemical signals, and if so, whether the hypersecretion could be abated by the FSH-suppressing protein, follistatin.
(14) The twitches elicited by 0.1 msec pulses were abolished by tetrodotoxin, but were not reduced by dimethyltubocurarine or by hexamethonium.
(15) At 10(-7) M, Iso produced approximately maximal responses at all ages in the ECH but elicited only minimal responses at all ages in the ERH, approximately ten times this concentration being required to produce maximal responses in the ERH.
(16) This documents the inhibitory role which lithium can play in several examples of animal aggressive behavior including pain-elicited aggression, mouse killing in rats, isolation-induced aggression in mice, p-chlorophenylalanine-induced aggression in rats, and hypothalamically induced aggression in cats.
(17) Of the protein that did enter the gel, the higher MW species elicited banding patterns similar to patterns observed under reducing conditions, whereas lower MW IgE binding bands were lost.
(18) The augmentation of IgE-mediated reactions was maximal in tuberculin reactions elicited 1 week after active immunization but was still significant in reactions elicited 6 weeks after immunization.
(19) Various protocols were employed to induce LTP and were deemed successful as evaluated by recording sustained enhancement of the mean peak amplitude of conventionally elicited large compound EPSPs and extracellular field potentials.
(20) Guinea pigs exposed to 200 and 400 H. truncatum larvae elicited the greatest change in feeding efficiency during the fourth infestation.
Eviscerate
Definition:
(v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
Example Sentences:
(1) As with alloplastic orbital implant extrusions in enucleated sockets, autogeneous dermis fat grafts can be useful in managing extrusions in previously eviscerated sockets.
(2) In general, for these individuals there is minimal disruption of the periocular tissues, thus, reducing fitting problems associated with enucleation and evisceration.
(3) In a cross-sectional study of 144 slaughterhouse workers, a cumulative prevalence of current and anamnestic cases of protein contact dermatitis of 22% was found, with the highest prevalence in workers eviscerating and cleansing gut.
(4) However, our data showed that 31 (25%) of the confirmed cases occurred in workers at the further processing plant who had contact only with previously eviscerated carcasses.
(5) Never mind Tory spending cuts; they would be dwarfed by the SNP cuts necessary to keep the Scottish economy afloat in the radically altered market conditions we now face.” But despite “that rational evisceration of the SNP’s economic policies”, polls showed support for the SNP was now higher than at the time of the referendum.
(6) Complete restoration of plasma cholesterol patterns to intact animal levels was seen only when the pancreas, liver and kidneys were left functional in the eviscerated rat.
(7) Short-term experiments were performed on dogs anesthetized with pentobarbital and prepared by abdominal evisceration, cholecystectomy, and bile duct cannulation.
(8) A three to four-fold increase in carcass contamination was observed after evisceration.
(9) He went with a bang not a whimper: two of his last contributions to the New Republic were a trenchant critique of the history of the six-day war by Michael Oren, now Israeli ambassador to Washington, and an evisceration of Koba the Dread, Martin Amis's purported book on Stalin.
(10) The most serious late complication during the entire follow-up period was endo-ophthalmitis in 8 eyes which in 5 patients after an interval up to 12 months following operation ended by evisceration of the bulbus--in all instances Russian lenses which were sterilized by ourselves were involved.
(11) When high priority is given to the prevention of evisceration, the 'open' method of castration should be abandoned.
(12) We have used 'left upper abdominal evisceration plus Appleby's method (LUAE + Apl.)'
(13) To test the rate of protein degradation in muscles under more physiological conditions, in vitro methods were adapted for use in rats whose skeletal muscles had been isolated intact by an evisceration procedure.
(14) Mesenteric avulsions required resection in five cases--the eviscerated bowel was replaced and the entrapped bowel resected.
(15) The records of 12 hospitals of Moscow over a year evidence 678 enucleations and eviscerations, 248 (39 percent) of these for oncologic diseases, 189 (29.1 percent) because of injury aftereffects, 153 (24 percent) because of glaucoma, and 58 (8 percent) because of ocular inflammations.
(16) They don't seem to be eviscerating the Inter defence with their usual verve and are losing possession more often than you'd expect as a result of misplaced passes and poor touches.
(17) Repair of these perforations was complicated by the extremely thin corneas and six eyes had to be either enucleated or eviscerated.
(18) Core biopsies, which were performed after evisceration, were compared with macroscopic and microscopic findings of the entire prostatic gland.
(19) Evisceration may be indicated in patients with blind and unsightly or painful eyes and in selected instances of ocular trauma following discussion of the risk of sympathetic ophthalmia with the patient.
(20) Major abnormalities included gastroschisis and evisceration, maxillary hypoplasia and interatrial, and interventricular septal defects.