(1) Segmentally enclosed thrombolysis (SET) was undertaken immediately after PTA, when a double balloon catheter was positioned with a balloon at each end of dilated segments.
(2) These cases illustrate the danger of using such heating sources in enclosed spaces, due to their carbon monoxide-generating capability.
(3) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
(4) As part of our investigation of the behaviour of suture materials, 3-0 sutures of polydioxanone and Maxon were enclosed in nylon pouches, a technique developed for in vivo experiments to prevent cellular interaction with implanted devices.
(5) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
(6) In the presence of 0.02 mM verapamil, the maturation of cumulus-enclosed oocytes was not affected, whereas at the same dose of verapamil the maturation of denuded oocytes was inhibited.
(7) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
(8) Schwann cells enclose vestibular ganglion cells and their peripheral nerve fibres already on the 15th-16th gestational days.
(9) The lead shield encloses only the testes, allowing its use with nearly any radiation field that does not include the testes.
(10) An alveolar pattern is formed enclosing each of the adjacent cells.
(11) 1965.-Thin sections of filterable hemolytic anemia agent of rat, now identified as Haemobartonella muris, revealed (i) that the agent is spherical or ellipsoidal and 350 to 700 mmu in size, (ii) that it has a single limiting membrane enclosing granules and some filaments (neither cell wall nor nucleoid was found), and (iii) that it is found preferentially at the surface and sometimes within the cytoplasmic vacuoles of erythrocytes in the circulating blood and bone marrow, and multiplies there through binary fission.
(12) Water was being trapped by capillary action between the minute overlapping moss leaves long enough for it to deposit its load of calcium salts, enclosing the plants in a stone straitjacket.
(13) Treated embryos showed a delay in the longitudinal growth of the tibia, as well as in the growth of all structures enclosed by the perichondrium-periosteum.
(14) In 1 case, the cleft is enclosed on its medial side by cartilage only.
(15) Immediately before in vitro insemination, the oocytes were divided into three types with different follicle cells: denuded and corona- and cumulus-enclosed oocytes.
(16) The nerve bundles, encircled by basal lamina, were enclosed by a thin connective tissue layer and by flattened fibroblast-like cells.
(17) The germarium encloses mononucleate and binucleate trophocytes, prefollicular tissue and oogonia, while the vitellarium contains 2-5 oocytes arranged in order of maturity.
(18) The tissue is elastic, as also is the enclosed air.
(19) Previous experiments with nerves enclosed in millipore diffusion chambers had shown that myelin degradation during Wallerian degeneration depends on invasion by non-resident cells.
(20) n. differ from those in other congeneric species mainly in the absence of small spines on the surface of the transparent envelope enclosing the egg proper, measurements (size of eggs 0.069-0.075 x 0.027-0.030 mm) and their localization in the host.
Labyrinth
Definition:
(n.) An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
(n.) Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.
(n.) Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.
(n.) An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.
(n.) The internal ear. See Note under Ear.
(n.) A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.
(n.) A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increases were found in both nuclei and cytoplasm of trophoblast cells in the labyrinth region.
(2) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(3) C. burnetii antigen was demonstrated in decidual cells, trophoblasts, and macrophages and extracellularly within the sinuses of the labyrinth and in the uterine lumen but not in granulated metrial gland cells.
(4) Labyrinth and neck reflexes need therefore to be considered together as a single system.
(5) Complete absence of development of inner ear with labyrinth aplasia.
(6) Ach, cholinomimetics and cholinergic antagonists were therefore applied to frog isolated whole labyrinths and isolated semicircular canals.
(7) A combined morphological and physiological study on the effect of saccus obliteration on the cochlea and the vestibular labyrinth of the rat is presented.
(8) Subcellularly, the heaviest depositions of reaction product were observed lining the cytoplasmic membrane surfaces of the labyrinth of anastomosing plasma membrane tubules that ramifies throughout the chloride cell cytoplasm.
(9) On testing the peripheral vestibular apparatus of astronauts with healthy labyrinths, nystagmus was observed when flushing the ears with hot or cold water even in the absence of gravitation.
(10) Furthermore, these findings demonstrate 195mpt localization in the vestibular labyrinth and confirm previous platinum distribution studies in the organ of Corti and stria vascularis tissues.
(11) Using previously obtained data concerning the effectivity of amedin in motor and speech disorders due to muscular dystonia the drug was used for the treatment of 50 children from 3.5 months to 18 years, with motor disorders of an extrapyramidal and labyrinth nature.
(12) In an attempt to destroy selectively the affected peripheral vestibular labyrinth in patients with intractable vertigo as a result of Meniere's disease, a known quantity of streptomycin was introduced within the bony labyrinth following fenestration of the horizontal semicircular canal.
(13) The psychological effects of postviral labyrinthitis in a patient who had been undergoing intensive psychotherapy are reported.
(14) The ethmoid air cell labyrinth lies adjacent to the medial orbital wall, extending even beyond the sutures of the ethmoid bone.
(15) Any variations of the nystagmus duration (increasing or decreasing) could result from different changes of the otolith signals from the two labyrinths.
(16) Vimentin occurred in a number of supporting structures in the membranous labyrinth, but not in vestibular or cochlear ganglion cells.
(17) Cytohistochemistry localized the Ca2+-ATPase to the chorionic villi of the placental labyrinth, and specific staining was primarily associated with the syncytio- and cytotrophoblast layers as well as the perivascular cells.
(18) Pressure recordings in the esophageal body, LES and stomach were performed in 10 healthy subjects before and after caloric stimulation of the labyrinth.
(19) On the basis of theoretical considerations and experimental studies, it can be shown that Menière's attacks result from rupture of the membranous labyrinth with diffusion of potassium into the perilymph and sodium into the endolymph.
(20) A qualitative electron microscopic investigation of endothelial cells in each subregion of the subfornical organ in Long-Evans rats revealed at least three types of capillary oriented according to region: in the rostral region were capillaries having no endothelial fenestrations or pericapillary spaces, and few vesicles, in the "transitional" region between the rostral and central regions, capillaries having no endothelial fenestrations, substantial numbers of vesicles, and narrow but perceptible pericapillary spaces were found, and in the central and caudal regions, capillaries having abundant endothelial fenestrations and vesicles, expansive pericapillary labyrinths, and relatively thin walls were present.