(conj. / adv.) Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s the Australian experience.” When asked whether he accepted that there is potentially a causal relationship between rising temperatures and bushfires, Hunt replied: “Well by definition, bushfires happen in hot weather.” Iqbal then pushed on the science behind fire weather being impacted by “changes in the climate, ergo climate change”.
(2) This is a good example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc – “after this, therefore because of this” – fallacy.
(3) MRI scans have been singularly effective at capturing the public imagination, but the claims made – this part of the brain is lighting up, ergo, this baby or mother is experiencing love – are egregious.
(4) Another said: “I ‘hate’ cruelty, liars, those who profit from an others tragedy, ergo my ‘hate for Kate and Gerry’ is justified.
(5) Ergo, they are losing £2m a year by keeping it open.
(6) The risk factors were examined by exercise stress test on Quinton-2000 ECG monitor and treadmill Q-model 24-26, Bruce protocol, along with Ergo-oxyscreen, by laboratory tests of fasting blood lipid levels, and by interview using a questionnaire.
(7) And I've taken pleasure in consulting women half my age about whether I should opt for an Ergo carrier or a Baby Bjorn , whether my feet will ever shrink back to their pre-pregnancy size and whether we really need a nappy bin?
(8) If not, he has fallen into that GCSE syllogism: this book is about women; women are feminists; ergo this book is about feminism.
(9) All segments of control vessels vasoconstricted to ERGO and vasodilated to NTG (p less than 0.05 versus baseline), indicating a normal response.
(10) The US policy-making Principals Committee, meeting on 19 May, expressed its view that: “The only realistic option is to seek Allied support for an Unprofor pull-back from vulnerable positions” – ergo, the safe areas – “coupled with more robust enforcement of the remaining mandate, including Nato air strikes.” The French general Bernard Janvier, overall commander of UN troops on the ground, told the security council member states on 24 May that: “The enclaves are indefensible, and the status quo untenable.” He said UN troops were too vulnerable in the safe areas, and should either be reinforced, or withdrawn to make way for air strikes.
(11) The ISO test was not accompanied with adverse effects and could be considered as a useful method in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease, similar to ERGO.
(12) Electrosleep is still controversial, hydro-, ergo- and physical therapy are supportive therapies and as such indicated in all depressions.
(13) Ergo the municipal axe, and the newly familiar austerity.
(14) Ergo, shove it up your preconceptions, Hollywood Me.
(15) The maintaining of sufficient support and normal walking through the use of plantar prostheses or custommade toe prostheses and by wearing shoes of excellent quality, the maintainance and preservation of articular flexibility and muscular trophicity by adapted kinestherapy and ergo therapy.
(16) Ergo, men have evolved their comedic skills to a greater level.
(17) I'm an existentialist, I'm in a car, ergo farther up the road.
(18) The correct assessment of residual respiratory lesions after a chest injury requires clinical examination, roentgenographic examination in two planes, lung function tests including ergo-spirometry and blood gas analyses before and after exercise.
(19) ERGO (£3.99) Okay, so the appeal of this app may be as much to show off as for security reasons.
(20) In time I realised a certain intellectual laziness was in play, that because those journalists did not recognise the things I wrote about as coming from their own lives, ergo they must have come from mine.
Ergot
Definition:
(n.) A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
(n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
(n.) A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.
(n.) See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the ergot drugs were more active in displacing 3H-haloperidol than 3H-dopamine from striatal membranes.
(2) We tested affinities of newly synthesized ergot derivatives to alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptors, D1- and D2-dopamine receptors, muscarinic acetylcholinoceptors and beta-adrenoceptors using radioligand binding techniques.
(3) The main drugs with specific action on migraine include ergot alkaloids (ergotamine, dihydroergotamine), agonists (sumatriptan) or partial agonists (methysergide) at a specific subtype of 5-HT1-like receptors, beta-adrenoceptor antagonists (propranolol, metoprolol), calcium antagonists (flunarizine) and anti-inflammatory agents (indomethacin).
(4) Eleven women with secondary amenorrhoea and hyperprolactinaemia were treated with lisuride, a new semisynthetic ergot derivative.
(5) The high risk of postabortal complications owing to the defects of the myometrium necessitated the administration of weak uterine drugs, such as ergotal.
(6) This experience suggests that bromocriptine, a derivative of ergot alkaloids, can cause coronary arterial spasm, and subsequent myocardial infarction.
(7) Chromosome examination was made from 12 healthy adult male volunteers by using human lymphocyte cultures twice before, and 8 and 12 weeks after continuous intake of 3 X 1.5 mg Hydergine, an ergot derivative, per day orally.
(8) Effects of ergot alkaloids, nicergoline (NIC), on survival rate, brain water content, local cerebral blood flow (LCBF: 14C-iodoantipyrine) and glucose utilization (LCGU: 14C-2-deoxyglucose) were examined after bilateral carotid artery occlusion (BCAO) in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
(9) Postsynaptic and DA "autoreceptor" agonists [apomorphine, (-) 3-PPP], as well as dopaminergic ergot derivatives (bromocriptine, lergotrile, lisuride) and Sch 23390, substituted for Ly 171555, a partial ergoline which has behavioral effects that are blocked by haloperidol and molindone, but not by either Sch 23390 or serotonin (5-HT) antagonists (ketanserin, pizotifen).
(10) Although the ergot alkaloids (ergots) are useful drugs for the acute treatment of migraine headaches, their mechanism of action remains obscure.
(11) The effect of two recently synthetized dihydrogenated ergot peptide alkaloids has been investigated on the rabbit uterus in situ.
(12) Eleven patients with prolactin-producing pituitary adenomas were treated with the new non-ergot, long-acting dopamine agonist, CV 205-502, for a period of 2-18 months (mean 11 months).
(13) Monoaminergic neuronal systems have been implicated in the mechanisms of action of most ergot derivatives (including those that are clinically useful and those that are "hallucinogenic").
(14) No case of ergotism with such a localization has been previously described in the literature.
(15) This observation and 63 others cases in the litterature call attention to the potential dangers of the ergot derivatives (ergotamine tartrate), even at normally accepted therapeutic doses.
(16) In humans as in animals and in in vitro studies, inhibition of prolactin and LH release induced by ergot drugs are likely due to both an indirect effect via the hypothalamus and to a direct effect on the pituitary cells.
(17) In conclusion, buflomedil is as effective or more effective than dihydrogenated ergot alkaloids in the treatment of senile dementia associated with cerebrovascular insufficiency and could prove a valuable addition to long-term therapy if further studies support the trend shown in this study.
(18) The ergot alkaloids but not BC-105 also exhibited considerable stimulating activity.
(19) If Scammony does contain ergot alkaloids, it is suggested that it will be an excellent source for this material, since the plants cultivation is inexpensive and easy.
(20) Various ergot alkaloids and derivatives were investigated for their interaction with dopaminergic receptors at the level of the rat corpus striatum and nucleus accumbens.