(n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
(n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) Paradoxical embolus to the right coronary artery was demonstrated premorbidly and at autopsy.
(3) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
(4) It was concluded that the mixture is much more satisfactory than the conventional cyanoacrylates as an embolus material in vitro.
(5) There was a 12.6% incidence of pulmonary embolism, but only 1.9% of all patients developed a symptomatic pulmonary embolus.
(6) The common lung or pulmonary perfusion scan using macroaggregates of albumin or microspheres radiolabeled also gives information as to the presence of thrombosis of embolus within the pulmonary arteries, by showing the effect upon the perfusion pattern.
(7) A deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolus was found in 1.7% and was no less common in the 25% of the patients who received pharmacologic anticoagulation.
(8) If the source of the embolus can be located, medical or surgical therapy may be able to prevent the occurrence of further strokes.
(9) The total incidence of postoperative pulmonary embolus was 3.2%, with two-thirds asymptomatic and one-third symptomatic pulmonary emboli.
(10) A missile embolus, an extremely rare lesion, presents an unusual and challenging problem for the clinician.
(11) Failure to define a source of embolus kept them in the category of IUC.
(12) Anticoagulants have not been administered postoperatively, and one patient has had a systemic embolus.
(13) Low AA and low H-AA (Pattern D) developed in sera of eight patients with thrombophlebitis and seven patients with pulmonary embolus.
(14) Many patients who suffer a massive pulmonary embolus die despite emergent therapy.
(15) While traditional causes of occlusion (saddle embolus and thrombosis) are the most frequent, vasculitis and hypercoagulable states have recently been suggested as etiologies.
(16) In 9 cases, it was an air embolus, in 4 others an atheromatous embolus.
(17) The thrombolytic and pharmacokinetic properties of staphylokinase were compared with those of streptokinase in hamsters with a pulmonary embolus produced from human plasma or from hamster plasma, and in rabbits with a jugular vein blood clot produced from rabbit blood.
(18) From this an embolus may detach to the right hemisphere of the brain resulting in left sided hemiplegia.
(19) The mortality with modern therapy was 12%, and the major complication was cerebral embolus.
(20) In Group A the detection of air embolus varied from 6% using an oesophageal stethoscope to 58% by the Doppler method.
Palp
Definition:
(n.) Same as Palpus.
(v. t.) To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The GRC bound to immobilized histones could be eluted with PALP, but not with its related compounds, such as pyridoxamine, pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate, pyridoxal, and pyridoxine, suggesting a specific effect of PALP.
(2) The lobus glomeratus receives inputs from the maxillary palps and also from processess of deutocerebral neurons.
(3) Lon-directed degradation of SulA was energy dependent, as was the increase in degradation of SulA in delta lon pAlp+ cells.
(4) Paper electrophoretic analysis showed that in the mixture of TOB and PALP, the spot corresponding to TOB alone almost disappeared and the spot associated with TOB overlapped with that associated with PALP, although the spots of TOB alone and PALP alone were observed as single spots on the cathode and anode sides, respectively.
(5) The activated glucocorticoid-receptor complexes (GRC) from rat liver bind tightly to histone (from calf thymus)-agarose and cannot be eluted with 3 M KCl or 50% ethylene glycol, but can be eluted with 20 mM pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PALP).
(6) Physiologically, the palp-pit receptors respond uniformly; they are most excitable by stimulation with carbon dioxide while they exhibit relatively moderate responses to various odorants.
(7) Testing of MAb binding to bacteria showed that a part of the BLp I, PALp I, and PALp II sites was immunoaccessible in intact homologous bacteria, and that the Hm I and Hm II epitopes were inaccessible.
(8) It is suggested that there may be an instability of the PALP-albumin complex in this condition.
(9) A gonadotropic inhibition is observed by means of oothecal production in Periplaneta americana after unilateral amputation of the mandible, the maxillary palp and the labial palp, in females reared with males at emergence.
(10) Similar assays with males deprived of maxillary palps make it unlikely that the basiconic-like sensilla on these appendages are needed to perceive the attraction pheromones.
(11) If used together with a myoma drill, large holes can be punched into tumours, making them for the first time well palp-able and revolvable.
(12) When aspartate- and alanine transaminase (AST and ALT, respectively) activities were studied in homogenates of rat cerebellum, brain cortex and brain stem (using a modified procedure by Raitman and Frenkel), addition of 50 microM pyridoxal-5-phosphate (PALP) increased 2-3-fold the activity studied.
(13) Their action is evidently realized on the level of competition with PALP when these compounds attach to apotransaminases.
(14) Intrarenal TOB levels in rats receiving TOB and PALP were lower than those in rats given TOB alone.
(15) The effect of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PALP) and trifluoperazine (TFPZ), the calmodulin antagonist, on in vitro platelet adhesion to collagen and collagen-induced platelet activation was studied using platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) or washed platelets (WPL).
(16) Sparse fibers were also seen in the body wall, parapodia, and cephalic palps.
(17) The olfactory sensilla on the maxillary palp tip of Locusta migratoria (L.) resemble the surrounding contact chemoreceptors in general morphology.
(18) The presence of MAO in the epithelium of the buccal palps was also demonstrated.
(19) However, pALP appears to lack the internal signal sequence of the corresponding human protein.
(20) The formation of the decarboxylated product, muscimol, which primarily occurred in a synaptosomal fraction, was dependent on the presence of pyridoxal-5-phosphate (PALP) and was inhibited by (S)-glutamic acid, 3-mercaptopropionic acid (3MPA), aminooxyacetic acid (AOAA), and allyglycine, suggesting that ibotenic acid is a substrate for GAD.