(n.) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar to intact crayfish, animals with an isolated protocerebrum-eyestalk complex, exhibit competent circadian rhythms in the electroretinogram (ERG).
(2) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
(3) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(4) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
(5) ERGs of high amplitude and of normal wave form were recordable with prominent oscillatory potentials.
(6) In chronical experiments the ERG of 5 rabbits were recorded before and after stimulation of the hippocampus.
(7) The wave forms of the equiluminance stimulus onset responses were similar to ERGs evoked with luminance decrease and the stimulus offset PERGs were like ERGs elicited by luminance increase.
(8) The ERG tested in a cell-free extract from one of these transformants proved to be resistant to the Al derivative, terbinafine.
(9) The highest yield of amino acids with the quench reaction was 9 x 10-7 molecules per erg of input energy.
(10) Normal retinal function can be maintained for several hours with the measurement of the gross electroretinogram (ERG) serving as a useful monitor of the electrophysiological condition of the preparation.
(11) We suggest that the initial supernormal ERG reflects an underlying biochemical change mediated by the action of anti retinal S-antigen antibodies.
(12) The postirradiation changes in the ERG wave amplitudes were most pronounced during the attenuating photokeratitis.
(13) The results strongly support the concept that the b-wave of the photopic ERG may actually represent a composite of potentials whose individual contributions are best visualized when the ERG is recorded with the 100- to 1000-Hz bandwidth.
(14) The ERG a-wave and b-amplitudes also decreased as a consequence of the taurine-free diet.
(15) The electroretinogram (ERG) was recorded in the dark from photo-entrained albino rabbits, using a constant-intensity, 500-nm, 50- or 100-msec stimulus at 1-min intervals.
(16) We hypothesize that the b-wave of the electroreginogram (ERG) can provide a precise, noninvasive measure of the morning rod disc shedding event.
(17) Pelmatohydra oligactis was amputated in the central part of the gastral region and exposed to radiation of ultraviolet rays (2535 angstroms, 12 erg mm(-2)s(-2) for 7, 15 and 20 minutes.
(18) ERG bp-waves were recorded in congenital color blindness by scanning monochromatic light stimuli, and spectral responses obtained could be evaluated as a spectral pattern.
(19) The data suggests that the b-wave of the ERG should be considered as a composite of potentials rather than as a single potential.
(20) The laser applications reduced considerably the amplitudes of the a and b waves of the ERG.
Err
Definition:
(v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.
(v. i.) To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
(v. i.) To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
(v. i.) To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
(v. i.) To offend, as by erring.
Example Sentences:
(1) But isn't it better to err on the side of caution and start emoting more?
(2) We take the health of our performers very seriously and felt that it was better to err on the side of caution while we determine whether anyone else may have been exposed."
(3) A given diver was reasonably consistent in the direction of his error from one trial to another and from one maneuver to another, although about half the divers tended to err to the right and half to the left.
(4) Antony Altbeker, author of Fruit of a Poisoned Tree, about a miscarriage of justice, said: "Society should err on the side of giving bail to the accused.
(5) But O'Cathain and colleagues say it is perhaps inevitable that call handlers without medical training will err on the side of caution and send people to seek emergency care.
(6) "Err on the side of the [New York] Times, not xoJane ."
(7) All submammalian vertebrates have extraretinal photoreceptors (ERR) that can mediate entrainment of circadian rhythms to 24-h light-dark (LD) cycles.
(8) So this review of the Keynote news will err on the side of optimism.
(9) When localizing tones, however, the barn owl errs in a manner that suggests that it is confused by phantom targets.
(10) to rats for 5 days, indole-3-carbinol was a potent inducer of hepatic ERR deethylation and cytochrome P-450 activity, but had much less effect in the intestine.
(11) The PRC for ONX lizards (only ERRs present) shows a threefold increase in the amplitude of both the advance and delay portions of the PRC compared with a PRC previously generated for sighted S. occidentalis.
(12) This synchronizing system is functionally coupled with the olfactory generator of electrographic respiratory response (ERR), which is brought into activity by nasal air flow.
(13) Thus, immunosuppressive regimens used in cardiac transplant programs tend to err (if they err) on the side of heavier suppression and accept the consequences of this choice.
(14) Unexpectedly, the majority of in vivo ermA transcripts detected were only 245 nt long, suggesting that expression of ErR may be regulated post-transcriptionally.
(15) Humans consistently err in their percepts of rotational motion viewed through an aperture.
(16) While both adults and children err on the 'place of articulation' feature most often, and 'nasality' least often, children produce 'voicing' feature errors less often than adults do, indicating that voicing may be a more important organizing principle for young children than for adults.
(17) "Err no, every right thinking person wants their own team to win, not the best team to win, weirdo.
(18) In my judgment, the Court errs egregiously by overriding Congress’ decision.
(19) Scanning electron microscopy morphometric analysis found major evidence of ERR in the tooth-borne jackscrew appliance, in the long-term group, in the maxillary premolars, on the buccal and furcation root surfaces, on the mesiobuccal root, and in the apical zone.
(20) Concomitantly with splenomegaly, ERR gene expression in spleen cells increases dramatically.