(a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
(a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
(a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
(a.) Watchful; alert.
(a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
(a.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
(v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
(v. t.) To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.
(v. t.) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
(v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
(v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
(v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
(v. i.) To rise upright.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) The effect of aspirin on the development of hypercoagulability in the penile blood during erection was studied in five Chacma baboons.
(3) Many failures of spontaneous erection will, however, respond to intracavernous injection of vasoactive agents postoperatively.
(4) Supine and erect blood pressure (sphygmomanometer) measurements and side effects were noted at the same times.
(5) Morphine (0.1 to 5 micrograms), but not U-69,593 (5 micrograms), injected into the PVN 10 minutes before oxytocin or apomorphine, was found to be able to prevent penile erection and yawning induced by the unilateral PVN microinjection of oxytocin (10 ng) or apomorphine (50 ng).
(6) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
(7) The initial dosage in pharmacological erection therapy may be adjusted according to these risk factors.
(8) Significantly, more of the patients aged below 30 years reported erection sufficient for coitus (p less than 0.05).
(9) In erect subjects, voluntary changes of shape at FRC did not change regional volume distribution.
(10) Apomorphine (Apo), a short acting dopamine (DA) receptor agonist, stimulates growth hormone (GH) secretion, decreases prolactin secretion, induces yawning, penile erections and other physiological effects in man.
(11) This experimental model excludes the interference of subjective factors, such as erotic stimuli and libido on erection, and it seems that androgen deficiency has a direct effect on the neurophysiology of the erectile tissues resulting in a higher tonus of the detumescence factors, which can be explained by an incomplete relaxation of the sinusoidal smooth muscle.
(12) The patients were seen after a sustained erection of 20 hours maximum on 15 occasions and one patient was seen after a sustained erection of 36 hours.
(13) Fifty patients were studied with erect films at excretory urography.
(14) The veins which are not compressable during erection can eventually be obliterated under radiological control with the help of mini-coils.
(15) Patients showing a complete erection had their intrapenial blood volumes 4.2-11.2 times greater than before VSS (mean increase, 8.0 times).
(16) In nine normal subjects duplicate measurements were made in the erect (seated), supine, and lateral decubitus posture, at a constant tidal volume (700 ml) and frequency (1 Hz) starting from functional residual capacity (FRC).
(17) Erections were induced by cavernous nerve stimulation before and after atropine.
(18) In the light of previously published advice and reports, the experience gained from these two cases now dictates that investigation of an unexplained death occurring after exposure to, and change from, hyperbaric or hypobaric conditions, should begin with plain erect chest radiography on the body before autopsy.
(19) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
(20) Contraction of the ischiocavernosus muscles occluded the arterial inflow and venous outflow to the CCP, making it a closed system during peak erection.
Eruct
Definition:
(v. t.) Alt. of Eructate
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, retrosternal and also epigastric and pharyngeal burning or pain are the leading symptoms, but in mild disease eructation may become the major complaint.
(2) Although the transected tracheal technique for the determination of the volume of eructated gas was developed with cattle, the pathway of eructated gas was confirmed with sheep.
(3) When the mixture was introduced directly into the small intestine according to the authors' schedule, no dyspeptic symptoms (eructation, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, meteorism, diarrhea) were recorded, dipsosis and the sense of starvation disappeared, the body weight increased, biochemical parameters returned to normal, the time of the preoperational preparation was significantly reduced, the post-operational complications were better managed.
(4) When swallowing occurred during eructation it appeared to continue normally, interrupting the train of oesophageal reactions in eructation.
(5) Treatment results were checked endoscopically and on the basis of changes in subjective symptoms (heartburn, epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, postprandial sense of fullness, eructations, regurgitation, all of which were quantified on an analogic scale from 0 = absent to 3 = intense).
(6) Absorption across the ruminal epithelium during rest increased Mco2 by 3%, whereas absorption and eructation together increased Mco2 by 15%.
(7) The most frequent symptoms were abdominal pain, weight loss, diarrhea, and vomiting followed by anemia, foul eructations, and fecal vomiting.
(8) The time between the first doses of medication and the attainment of good or excellent relief was also significantly shorter (P less than 0.01) in the bismuth subsalicylate-treated subjects for the individual symptoms of nausea, sense of fullness, heartburn and eructation.
(9) The odor of hydrogen sulfide in eructated rumen gas was associated with the onset of PEM.
(10) After 3 years, the proportion of reflux-free patients still was 94%; 12% suffered from mild dysphagia and 6% had problems with eructation.
(11) The volume of eructated gas (for 30-minute periods) decreased from 10.7 L to 5.5 L at the end of the 60-minute infusion period.
(12) Subjects who received bismuth subsalicylate had significantly superior relief (P less than 0.01) of the individual symptoms of nausea, sense of fullness, heartburn, eructation, stomach pain and flatulence, as well as superior overall relief (P less than 0.02).
(13) CO2 of fermentation origin is added to the expired gas by both eructation and absorption and has a significant effect on R in the resting animal, but no effect on R during exercise.
(14) A review of 46 of the 63 reported cases of gastric and duodenal fistulization indicated that patients with gastric fistulas commonly present with vomiting (39%), and with histories of feculent eructations or frank feculent vomiting (44%), but that patients with duodenal fistulas rarely present with vomiting (3.6%), and never have feculent vomiting or eructations.
(15) Patients with functional bowel disease commonly complain of abdominal pain, bloating, and excessive flatulence and eructation.
(16) Alimentary tract obstruction with an agent blocking, phagoreceptors block (eructation type of infection), inhibition of saliva ferments activity (saliva type of transmission) result in the prolongation of the feeding period and rise of agent hit probability.
(17) The diagnosis is based on a history of eructation, heart burn, flatulence and diarrhea, dietary habits, physical examination, laboratory analysis and apparative diagnostic measures.
(18) 34.2 percent of the patients had, instead of pains, a feeling of heaviness in the epigastric area, heartburn and eructation depending on the antral gastritis severity.
(19) Gas eructation function of the gastroesophageal sphincter (GES) was investigated in 6 conscious dogs before and after a sleeve was placed around the GES and gastric cardia and during IV infusion of a beta-adrenergic amine (epinephrine).
(20) We conclude that, despite the large volume of eructated gases, the eructation process is not significantly different in sheep compared to other animals.