(n.) A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
Example Sentences:
Inlet
Definition:
(n.) A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance.
(n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.
(n.) That which is let in or inland; an inserted material.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ventricular septal defect types were perimembranous (six), malalignment (seven), supracristal (three), midmuscular (one), and inlet (one).
(2) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
(3) Fourteen patients with double inlet left ventricle and nine patients with tricuspid atresia had biplane left ventricular angiography with simultaneous measurement of left ventricular pressure by micromanometer.
(4) Though thyrotoxicosis caused by amiodarone is recognised, to our knowledge thoracic inlet compression has not been previously described.
(5) It is only useful when there is doubt and in this case both a lateral and an antero-posterior film are necessary as the obstetric conjugate alone was unreliable in predicting the transverse diameter of the inlet as well as the outcome.
(6) The overall productivity of the reactor is a function of the flow rate and the inlet glucose concentration.
(7) In this article the concept of utilizing a pinched inlet channel for field-flow fractionation (FFF), in which the channel thickness is reduced over a substantial inlet segment to reduce relaxation effects and avoid stopflow, is evaluated for steric FFF using one conventional channel and two pinched inlet channels.
(8) To better understand the mechanism of cerebral blood flow during CPR in humans, we determined the aortic-carotid artery pressure difference, the cephalic perfusion pressure (the carotid artery-jugular vein pressure difference), and thoracic inlet venous "valving" (the central venous-jugular vein pressure difference), while administering standard doses of epinephrine.
(9) A small bolus of each of the tracer gases was injected within 1 ms into a constant airflow at the inlet of the model, and the bolus dispersion curve was measured at the outlet by means of a mass spectrometer.
(10) Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was performed in 27 mongrel adult dogs employing a V-V bypass between the proximal region of the inferior vena cava, used as a blood outlet, and the external jugular vein, used as a blood inlet, in order to investigate the decrease in leukocytes and the change in leukotriene B4 (LTB4) caused by ECMO.
(11) Fourthly, the atrioventricular connection is determined as follows: (1) usual alignment, (2) criss-crossing, (3) straddling, (4) double inlet, and (5) unilateral atrioventricular valve atresia, by using an apical four-chamber echo view.
(12) Consequently, solutes locally introduced at the inlet of the column are subjected to an efficient partition process in each partition unit and separated according to their partition coefficients.
(13) This was examined by mass spectrometry using direct inlet technique, but no free cholic acid could be identified.
(14) The case of a 5-month-old girl with a large neuroblastoma of the thoracic inlet, an unusual location for this tumor, is presented.
(15) The neoplasms were single, multilobulated, encapsulated masses in the anterior mediastinum or thoracic inlet.
(16) The area close to the inlet is the most severely affected.
(17) A 5-year-old boy with double inlet left ventricle and ventriculoarterial discordance (SDD type) underwent ventricular septation with arterial switch procedure.
(18) TCC differed from C3a and C5a in the following respects: (i) lower detection limit (4 x 10(-11) vs. less than 5 x 10(-9) M for both C-anaphylatoxins); (ii) higher relative increment (inlet) during CU dialysis (25-fold vs. eightfold and twofold, respectively); (iii) C-anaphylatoxins yielded the same ranking (CU much greater than HE greater than PS), but TCC concentrations were not a linear function of C3a or C5a concentrations, respectively.
(19) This paper describes a pathological specimen of double-inlet right ventricle in which no remains of a hypoplastic left ventricle were found.
(20) Surgical mortality of the Fontan procedure for tricuspid atresia and double-inlet left ventricle is now less than 10%, and that, plus these late results, justify continued application of this operation in patients with these lesions.