(1) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(2) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(3) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(4) This result suggests that tryptophan-86 may be importantly involved in the generation of the product excited state during aequorin bioluminescence.
(5) This report is an overview of the data and has incorporated some additional findings of the influence of the ACTH4-9 analog, Org2766, on neuronal excitation, especially in the hippocampus.
(6) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(7) Stimulation of parallel fibers or iontophoresis of acetylcholine excited P cells.
(8) This effect of adrenalectomy on MNE excitability was further demonstrated by recording directly the neostigmine-induced repetitive neural discharges responsible for the muscle fasciculations.
(9) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(10) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
(11) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(12) Following electrical stimulation of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) area, 21% of the neurons were orthodromically excited, 6% were inhibited and 2.5% were antidromically activated.
(13) Formation of a complex between alpha-tocopherol or its analogues in the excited state and fatty acids or their hydroperoxides has been suggested basing on the fluorescence quenching experimental data.
(14) It is concluded that intraventricular 5-HT raises rectal temperature in cats when the amount is not too large, and that a hypothermic effect when it occurs results from paralysis of cells in the anterior hypothalamus which are excited by small doses.
(15) The optical efficiencies are similar and depend on the match of the excitation characteristics of the stain with the emission spectra of the light source.
(16) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(17) As a consequence, a neural network, considered as a kind of parallel random automata, delivers an output random field in response to the excitation provided by a random field that represents the activity of some input fibers.
(18) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(19) We use this procedure to assess the excitability of the auditory nerve, the patency of the cochlea and to detect undesirable side effects of electrical stimulation, such as facial nerve activation.
(20) And that's exciting, you've got no time to slow it down.
Horny
Definition:
(superl.) Having horns or hornlike projections.
(superl.) Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.
(superl.) Hard; callous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digestion of cytoplasmic components of horny cells was observed by electron microscopy, but both cell membranes and desmosomes remained intact.
(2) Strains of C. albicans differing in their abilities to secrete proteinase in vitro and to produce germ tube were inoculated onto the skin surface of newborn mice, and the invasion of the yeast cells into the horny layer was examined by histological techniques.
(3) Morphologic features of Malassezia(M.) furfur in the horny layer from clinical lesions of tinea versicolor were examined by scanning electron microscopy and compared with the appearance of fungus in the horny layer from normal skin and in culture.
(4) The absolute concentrations of 8-Methoxypsoralen were estimated in the horny layer, epidermis and dermis.
(5) In the next stage, the roof consisting of the malpighian layers is disrupted, and the vesicular fluid comes into contact with the horny layer.
(6) The systematic evaluation of the original curves takes into consideration amplitude, angle of climb and medium route and results in a horny layer sample-obtained successively from one and the same horny layer strip-series test area-impressioned by individual and regional horny layer conditions.
(7) The nature of the horny layer which, as the uppermost barrier takes over the main part of the protective function of the skin against all locally applied substances, is shortly outlined.
(8) Removal of the horny layer decreased epidermal IL 1-like activity.
(9) The superficial dermis contained horny cysts, similar to those present on the cheeks.
(10) Munro's microabscess under the horny layer also included IFN-gamma producing cells.
(11) The fluid was obtained from the skin surface of female mongrel dogs by transcutaneous suction after removal of the horny substance.
(12) The mockery continued when he noted semi-automatics had only two purposes: to kill people, and to let their owners go to a shooting range, "yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel".
(13) In both sites the plasma membranes of the horny cells were thickened and there was a cytoplasmic meshwork of microfibrils in the cells.
(14) Epithelial cells changing from the granular stage of differentiation to the horny stage are more numerous, and reveal sequential events of transformation in finer detail in the rumen epithelium than in other keratinizing epithelia thus far studied in the electron microscope.
(15) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(16) "Before you hit puberty, you have this growing, really urgent sense of horniness."
(17) This reflected enhanced permeability resulting from reduction of the horny layer to less than one-half its normal thickness.
(18) Remaining reactivity with antibodies, but not lectins, was almost completely abolished immediately before the final disintegration of the desmosome structure in the lower horny layer.
(19) The calcified concretions are also seen in the lymphatic capillaries, the intraepidermal sweat ducts and horny layer; at a site they perforate the epidermis and penetrate in a sweat pore.
(20) Elastic fibres were prominent in the upper dermis, the lower levels of the epidermis and in the hyperkeratotic horny layer.