(1) We conclude that the taste reactivity changes induced by VMH lesions and ST transections are independent and additive indicating that VMH finickiness does not involve disruption of amygdalo-hypothalamic connections.
(2) The types were labeled: "finicky eaters," "health-conscious dieters," "diverse diners," and "high-calorie traditionalists."
(3) A hyperreactivity to the sensory qualities of a food, i.e., finickiness, is a defining feature of the ventromedial hypothalamic (VMH) lesion syndrome.
(4) These results suggest roles for "finickiness" and vulnerability to mild stressors in the maintenance of eating disorders associated with stress and depression.
(5) In Experiment 1, exposure to unsignaled, inescapable shock resulted in finickiness about drinking a weak quinine solution, as previously reported.
(6) The most notable differences in eating behavior were that younger juveniles played with their food and were less finicky about what they ate.
(7) They could probably have got away with "quasi-psych" as well, if you want to be finicky.
(8) These projection fields proved functionally dissociable in that orbital frontal lesions impaired immediate postoperative regulation of food and water intake for up to 2 wk., while medial frontal lesions produced finickiness.
(9) The childhood eating disorder might take the form of failure to thrive, obesity, excessive finickiness, or, most commonly, vehement and protracted struggles between parent and child about eating.
(10) If the hunger-mimetic model is correct, a similar finicky pattern of increased eating should be observed both in hungry (food-deprived) rats and in benzodiazepine-treated, hyperphagic rats.
(11) It is, unmistakably, C-3PO , the finicky, worrywart droid whom Daniels has played in all six Star Wars films, and plays again in the latest instalment, The Force Awakens , which is due out in December.
(12) A salient feature of food deprivation (hunger) in laboratory animals is 'finicky' eating, or an enhanced reactivity to the palatability of food.
(13) While 5,7-DHT depleted brain 5-HT by 45%, it did not induce overeating and BW gain alone nor did it modify the overeating, obesity, or "finickiness" produced by hypothalamic injury.
(14) Scores were not related to gender or to finickiness.
(15) Experiment 2 revealed that bilateral parasagittal cuts and bilateral coronal cuts in the hypothalamus produce qualitatively similar effects on food intake, diurnal ingestive pattern, finickiness, and amphetamine anorexia.
(16) The "finicky eaters" favored only 8 foods and disliked 40.
(17) An increasing number of "farmbots" are being developed that are capable of finicky and complex tasks that have not been possible with the large-scale agricultural machinery of the past.
(18) In contrast, exposure to escapable shock resulted in marked individual differences in finickiness that were predicted by prestress body weight.
(19) Just as the sensory loss after lateral hypothalamic damage contributes to the aphagia and decreased aggressive behavior of such rats, it seems that increased responsiveness to sensory stimuli plays a role in the syndrome of hyperphagia, finickiness, and increased aggressiveness seen after medial hypothalamic damage.
(20) Extrahypothalamic lesions of central trigeminal structures produce a syndrome of aphagia, adipsia, finickiness, and food spillage.
Meticulous
Definition:
(a.) Timid; fearful.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
(3) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(4) For the management and prevention of the recurrent ascending infections long-term urinary disinfection and meticulous toilet of the external meatus are recommended.
(5) This higher-than-expected rate of positive cultures was probably related to the meticulous bacteriologic techniques used.
(6) Also, when using these drugs, one must often follow a meticulously graduated dosage regimen, while carefully monitoring the patient for toxic and potentially lethal side effects.
(7) Unlike posterior tympanoplasty, this technique makes it possible to meticulously remove the osteitic bone invariably found in the facial recess when there is infection of the retraction pocket.
(8) Recognize the high-risk patient and examine the oral cavity meticulously.
(9) Meticulous histologic examination of the resected specimens revealed no residual cancer cells.
(10) The only appropriate treatment of congenital facial and cervical C and F is surgery providing that the resection is meticulous with complete resection of the fistula in order to avoid relapse.
(11) Recurrences cannot always be avoided but the frequency can be reduced by meticulous removal of all diseased and normal connective tissue in this area.
(12) Specialist learning disability liaison nurse Jainab Desai is making meticulous checks of the complex arrangements to receive a tricky patient with learning disabilities, with staff of the day surgery unit at Royal Bolton hospital.
(13) All the patients underwent abdominal exploration, and CAGB was confirmed by the meticulous dissection of the entire extrahepatic biliary tree and the operative cholangiography.
(14) A meticulous review of the literature and several personal surgical cases confirms the view that only those diverticula causing evident symptoms or complications should be treated.
(15) The second patient was a 2-year-old female with anterior mediastinal and paratracheal masses and severe respiratory compromise, who was operated under general inhalation anesthesia and spontaneous breathing for biopsy of supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, after a meticulous preanesthetic evaluation.
(16) Meticulous handling of the graft (using a Goeller trephine and Tenon's traction sutures), filleting Tenon's capsule and avoiding cautery of the graft bed may minimize graft necrosis and atrophy.
(17) Their incidence could be reduced by more meticulous patient care.
(18) Meticulous attention to the cerebrospinal fluid draining system is needed in patients with a fistula to avoid the development of this unusual complication.
(19) It appears that early aggressive operation, and meticulous postoperative care, have contributed to the higher survival rate in recent years.
(20) The success of the modified technique depends upon meticulous methodology.