(n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
(a.) Exploring; spying.
(a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
Example Sentences:
(1) The drainage blockade is active and located just inside the tunica albuginea at the origin of the emissary veins.
(2) There has been no dialogue between the Chinese government and emissaries of the Dalai Lama since 2010.
(3) Key figures are Frank Lowenstein, Kerry’s special emissary for Middle East peace, and David Makovsky, an expert from the Washington Institute thinktank who specialises in the highly-complex mapping work that will be crucial to any land swaps.
(4) The anatomic connections of the head with the mediastinum through extensions of the deep cervical fascia, and the intracranial venous sinuses connected through emissary veins to the facial veins, make infections of this region the most dreaded.
(5) Brown, meanwhile, was exploring the possibility of sending Brazil's Lula as an emissary to broker an agreement between industrialised economies and the developing world.
(6) On Sunday, after the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected the government’s application for an emergency stay, Pence was sent as an emissary from the White House to several talkshows.
(7) A small foramen in the squamous part of the occipital bone just behind foramen magnum was noticed for the passage of emissary vein in one skull only, probably connecting occipital sinus with suboccipital venous plexus.
(8) The anatomy of the posterior condylar emissary vein is discussed, and the general evaluation of a patient with objective, pulsatile tinnitus is reviewed.
(9) The "emissary" is situated either along the right or left contour of the base of the common ventricle, its dimensions are variable.
(10) The emissary veins of the islet seem to serve for the quick conveyance of insular secretions into general circulation.
(11) And I thought, that's a good advertisement for death, for the emissary of death.
(12) Even as president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on TV her plan to nationalise Spanish-owned YPF, her emissaries were at the oil company's 35-storey Buenos Aires headquarters giving its Spanish directors 15 minutes to leave the building.
(13) Photograph: EPA Rael – once known as Claude Vorilhon, a French-born amateur sports racer and journalist – changed his name in 1973 after what he says was an encounter with extraterrestrials who declared that he had been chosen as their emissary to deliver a message of joy to humankind.
(14) "The vast lazy planes that floated overhead were emissaries from another world."
(15) Anderson has gone so far as to screen the movie for Tom Cruise, Scientology's chief emissary to the normals.
(16) Sir Denis Wright, an earlier UK ambassador to Iran, was chosen as emissary.
(17) Plain radiographs immediately after perfusion revealed prompt escape of dye into the systemic veins via a number of large transcortical emissary veins.
(18) Athens has set up a crisis management team, sent an emissary to the Middle East, contacted governments across the region and used its considerable contacts with the Syrian opposition in a bid to shed light on the clerics' whereabouts.
(19) Cerebral angiograms showed (1) the occluded confluence sinuum and compensatory venous collaterals, (2) venous drainage through the persistent falcial sinus, which was rare in an adult, from the straight sinus into the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), (3) venous drainage through diploic veins and emissary veins into scalp veins.
(20) In three patients, no blood flow could be detected in the ophthalmic emissary veins whereas in the fourth patient as well as in both control subjects, blood flowed from the intracranium to the face.
Venous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.
(a.) Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial.
(a.) Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(2) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(3) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(4) Plasmin-alpha 2-antiplasmin complex was not detected in any of the subjects after venous occlusion.
(5) At present it may be concluded that ORT per se does not place the postmenopausal women at greater risk from developing arterio-venous thrombosis.
(6) These results indicate that during IPPV the increased Pcv attenuates the pressure gradient for venous return and decreases CO and that the compensatory increase in Psf is caused by a blood shift from unstressed to stressed blood volume.
(7) Patients with inflammatory bowel disease showed decreased tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen release (t-PA Ag), no significant Von Willebrand antigen release (vWF Ag), and a residual plasminogen activator inhibitor activity (PAI activity) after venous occlusion.
(8) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(9) PNS at 7 Hz approximately doubled mesenteric venous plasma levels of PGE2 in both 16-week-old SHR and WKY, but PNS did not increase levels of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha in either strain.
(10) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
(11) Criteria for DOP administration were systolic blood pressure less than 100 mmHg and central venous pressure greater than 15 cmH2O.
(12) At constant arterial pO2, changes in coronary flow were associated with changes in energy-rich phosphates, but not systematically with changes in coronary venous pO2.
(13) Water immersion (WI) to the neck induces prompt increases in central blood volume, central venous pressure, and atrial distension.
(14) A fiberoptic flow-directed catheter inserted into the hepatic vein continuously measures hepatic venous oxygen hemoglobin saturation (ShvO2).
(15) Tachycardia, pulmonary hypertension, increased venous oxygen desaturation, and increasing core temperature develop as the syndrome progresses.
(16) Furthermore, the changes in both interstitial fluid and testicular venous blood levels of testosterone do not always parallel those in peripheral venous blood, suggesting that changes in testicular blood flow and peripheral clearance rates of testosterone may also be important in the control of circulating testosterone concentrations.
(17) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(18) Portal venous blood flow was reduced by approximately 30%.
(19) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
(20) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.