(a.) Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior to the 1977-1978 dietary intake survey, USDA embarked upon an intensive program of extramural research that was designed to improve methodologies for surveying individuals' dietary intakes.
(2) In conclusion, we feel that endoscopic ultrasonography may prove to be a useful technique in the diagnosis of intra- and extramural lesions of the GI tract, but comparisons with conventional imaging procedures should be performed.
(3) As to the coronary vasodilator action of Ca-antagonistic drugs in particular, it is important to note that they readily relax the smooth musculature of the major extramural stem arteries where most of the occlusive atherosclerotic intima processes (about 95%) are located.
(4) Grants programs account for over 60% of the total N. CI extramural research budget and are divided into four broad categories; research; training (including fellowships); cancer control; and construction.
(5) Since its inception in July 1978, the Extramural Associates (EA) Program exemplifies the NIH effort to promote entry and participation of underrepresented minorities and women in biomedical and behavioral research.
(6) In the notes of the government and the master-organization of the old people homes (LSB) we see very much interest in research on the efficient operating system of intra- and extramural facilities.
(7) The extramural review of the multi-center trial showed the inter-center bias to evaluate CR in spite of using the same X-ray imaging modalities.
(8) In 100 consecutive deaths from a coronary care unit, the coronary arteries were examined microscopically in longitudinal sections (serial and semi-serial) so that the entire extramural part of each artery was scrutinized.
(9) One complement of these cells begins to form a ventrolateral extramural condensation on day E19.
(10) Measurements of the pressure waveform development and the wave transmission characteristics in the left extramural coronary arteries of the horse have been carried out.
(11) Treatment with 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) permitted the visualization of additional serotonin-immunoreactive fibres around the large extramural blood vessels.
(12) Using a psychiatric case register, patients who had extramural contacts with the South-Verona Community Psychiatric Service in 1983 (N = 549) were selected for this study and followed-up for 3 years, from the date of their first 1983 contact.
(13) Likewise, the maximum reactive hyperaemic blood flow remained constant, indicating the absence of any changes in the tone of the large extramural arteries.
(14) Extraluminal extent of the lesion was noted on CT scans in seven patients; however, at surgery only four of six were found to have extramural disease.
(15) The stages of development, the present-day structure and functioning of the system are described; in particular, problems are discussed which arise from the shifting of treatment, aid and care from the intramural to the extramural sector as a result of the consistent application of the communal aid concept.
(16) The amount of extramural experience in different types of work was quantified by student questionnaires.
(17) The analysis of the responses from respondents (N = 780; 82.8%) found that (1) the scholarly activities of the respondents were primarily refereed journal articles through which they reported research findings; to a much lesser extent, the respondents authored books, chapters in books, monographs, and other publications; (2) less than a majority (46%) of the respondents presented a paper at a professional meeting over the past three years; (3) only a small percentage of respondents (29%) had directed extramurally funded projects; (4) the majority of the respondents (56%) indicated that their own academic preparation was the primary factor that encouraged their scholarly pursuits, and heavy teaching responsibility was the primary discouraging factor (62%); and (5) the respondents believed that faculty scholarly activities are, and will continue to be, important considerations in academic promotion decisions.
(18) The relationship between SAP and ICP can be explained by an existing equilibrium between extramural pressure and vessel wall circumferential tension.
(19) The extramural profile of the Medical Faculty also manifests itself in the curriculum.
(20) This is made particularly evident by the present experiments on potassium- or glycoside-contractured smooth musculature originating from large extramural coronary stem arteries.
Wall
Definition:
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
(n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
(n.) The side of a level or drift.
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(3) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(4) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(6) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(7) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(8) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(9) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(10) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(11) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
(12) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(13) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.
(14) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
(15) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(16) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(17) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(18) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(19) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
(20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.