(1) All the three conditions showed both features of generalized and partial epilepsies, although the former features were more prominent in ESES and the latter in PNSE and ABPE.
(2) Eighty-three percent of those patients who did not have established gangrene when ESES was started, retained their leg after 1 year, and 54% after 3 years.
(3) Epidural spinal electrical stimulation (ESES) has been valuable in the control of pain arising from peripheral vascular disease.
(4) Se concentrations in whole blood were more than doubled in both lambs and ewes drenched or injected; responses to ESe salt and pellets were much smaller.
(5) No evidence of tolerance to ESE was found over a 5-month period of treatment.
(6) The trick here is to look very carefully at the UN-ese language being used.
(7) The dependence of the ese rate on ionic strength is small.
(8) Since 1978 we have used ESES in 34 patients with severe limb ischemia; all had resting pain and most had ischemic ulcers.
(9) ESES healed ulcers in 50% of those with preoperative nonhealing skin ulcerations.
(10) These observations argue for the protein A binding of plasmatic factor(s) involved in idiopathic, nephrotic syndrome and allow us to progress to the characterization of this(ese) factor(s).
(11) One group was tested in the natural local geomagnetic field, the other group in a field pointing to 120 degrees ESE; birds from both groups were additionally tested in a magnetic field the horizontal component of which was compensated.
(12) The current information on ESES is critiqued in this review.
(13) The overall function, pain, and mood disturbance of 54 patients with benign chronic pain were studied as to their response to epidural spinal electrical stimulation (ESES) more than 12 months after the implantation of ESES electrodes.
(14) These results suggest that ESES often provides pain relief and improves skin healing in patients with impending arteriosclerotic or diabetic gangrene in whom vascular surgery is impossible or has failed.
(15) We describe the case of a six-year-old girl, whose EEG presented the typical ESES picture, and who in the span of one year developed a complete sensory aphasia, followed by motor aphasia.
(16) To clarify the clinical significance and pathophysiology of the nonconvulsive status epilepticus with continuous diffuse spike-waves during slow-wave sleep (CSWS) in EEG, this study was carried out on seven cases each of epilepsies with electrical status epilepticus during slow sleep (ESES) and with peculiar type of nonconvulsive status epilepticus in childhood (PNSE) and four cases of atypical benign partial epilepsy (ABPE).
(17) The use of modified electrosyneresis by making 760 sera of healthy persons or persons suffering from various diseases with immune complexes to react with their own pronase-treated serum has shown the following results: - One of 220 sera of healthy persons, 11 were positive in ESE (5%); - Out of 123 sera of HBsAg carriers, 23 were positive (18.6%); - Out of 135 sera of patients with acute viral type B hepatitis, 132 were positive (97.7%); - Out of 168 sera of patients with acute HBsAg negative hepatitis, 127 were positive (75.5%); - 4 cases of fulminant hepatitis were all strongly positive; - 54 cases of patients with rheumatoid arthritis were 100% positive; - 2 cases of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus were positive; - Out of 6 patients with glomerulonephritis 3 were positive; - Out of 34 patients with carcinoma of various organs, 19 were positive (55.88%).
(18) ESES has been used in our metabolic and surgical department as a way to ameliorate inadequate blood supply in patients suffering from diabetic foot (seven patients), painful chronic arterial narrowing, or inoperable occlusions (25 patients).
(19) ESE enzyme was 6-fold more active than the S isoenzyme on neutral steroids, due to substitutions not in the substrate binding pocket.
(20) Epidural spinal cord electrical stimulation (ESES) was performed on 10 patients with severe limb ischemia due to atherosclerotic disease.
Use
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.
(v. t.) Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.
(v. t.) Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
(v. t.) Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
(v. t.) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
(v. t.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
(v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
(v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.
(v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
(v. t.) To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.
(v. t.) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.
(v. t.) To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
(v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
(v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."
(v. i.) To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(3) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(6) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(7) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(8) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(9) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(10) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(11) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(12) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(13) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(14) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(15) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(16) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(17) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(18) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(19) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(20) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.