(n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-seven consecutive permanent epicardial pacemaker implantations were performed with either suture-type (group I, n = 52) or fishhook electrodes (group II, n = 45).
(2) Local anesthetics and simple removal techniques are adequate for nearly all fishhook injuries.
(3) Fishhook injuries are fairly common in some geographic areas.
(4) Results of this study suggest that most fishhook injuries involve the hands or head and that postremoval wound care including oral antibiotic therapy may not be critical.
(5) Preureteric vena cava is a rare congenital anomaly usually presenting clinically with hydronephrosis and an "S or fishhook" deformity of the ureter at the third or fourth lumbar vertebrae.
(6) Fishhook injuries rarely pose a true emergency, and only a few cases of posterior ocular injury from fishhooks have been described.
(7) A prospective study was conducted involving 100 nonrandomized, consecutive patients who suffered fishhook injury during the summer of 1990 in Alaska.
(8) The plug is 7-9 mm silicone or polyethylene fishhook, measuring 1 mm at the tip and 2 mm at the base which is surrounded by 4 elgiloy spines.
(9) Routine systemic antibiotic prophylaxis is not necessary for uncomplicated soft tissue injury due to fishhooks not involving cartilage or tendons.
(10) The two epimyocardial fishhook pacing electrodes were inserted through different incisions.
(11) Time of injury prior to admission to the emergency department, location of fishhook, method of removal, wound care, systemic antibiotic prophylaxis, anesthetic, tetanus immunization status, fishhook size, and complication rate were evaluated.
(12) Two simple techniques can be employed to remove a fishhook safely and easily.
(13) An intussusception resulting from an embedded fishhook and a mass of nylon cord, monofilament line, and wire was determined to be the cause of death in a Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris).
(14) The patient's roentgenograms showed the dystrophies of bones, lace-shaped ribs, boat-shaped cranium, fishhook-shaped forefront protrusion of silla trucica.
(15) We present a case of penetrating ocular, orbital, and cranial trauma produced by a broken fishhook.
(16) Diaphragmatic (Edi) and parasternal intercostal (Eic) electromyograms were recorded using fishhook electrodes.
(17) Following problems are shown using slides: --ingrown rings and their removal with follow-up treatment, --the removal of fishhooks, especially in swans, --the removal of projectiles from the bird's body, --the removal of lead slivers from the digestive tract of parrots as well as the follow-up treatment, --the removal of gold chains, plastic tubing and other "toys" from the intestine.
(18) A routine x-ray examination showed a fishhook lodged in the esophagus of an asymptomatic 68-year-old man.
(19) We have observed such atypical loops, under microcirculatory microscope and recording color TV, as: (1) big fishhook-like (2) dumb-bell like (3) glomerular (4) hemorrhagic (5) vascular (6) big tadpole-like (7) net-like (8) papillar edema.
Snell
Definition:
(a.) Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp.
(n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.
Example Sentences:
(1) The above results suggest that hormone deficiency in Snell dwarf mice is a result of a defect in the hormone-producing cells in the gland.
(2) Expressions for the parameters are from by the application of Markov's theory of chains which was developed by Kemeny & Snell (1960, Finite Markov Chains, Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand) and Bosso et al.
(3) On addition of monovalent cation to the holoenzyme-ethionine complex, a marked increase occurs in absorption of 508 nm resulting from labilization of the alpha proton with formation of the quinoid form of the pyridoxal phosphate moiety of the enzyme-substrate complex at the catalytic center (Morino, Y., and Snell, E.E.
(4) The chromosomes involved in the T(2;4)Sn (formerly designated T(5;8) Sn) or Snell translocation in the mouse have been identified as numbers 2 and 4 by analysis of the fluorescent banding patterns of quinacrine mustard-stained chromosomes in primary cultures from heterozygous and homozygous embryos.
(5) The concentration of gangliosides in the Snell dwarf mouse cerebrum was monitored from postnatal day 5 to day 40.
(6) Pituitary dwarf mutants of the Snell-Bagg and Ames mouse strains develop severe immunodeficiency of the thymus-dependent system which frequently leads to a fatal wasting syndrome.
(7) If the four known pyruvoyl-dependent HisDCases arise from inactive proenzymes by the mechanism previously demonstrated for the HisDCase of Lactobacillus 30a (Recsei, P. A., Huynh, Q. K. and Snell, E. E. (1983) Proc.
(8) Snell called upon testimony from Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, which he gave in absentia but in unambiguous terms, describing GM as having, through its subsidiaries, “scrapped the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles streetcar systems, leaving the electric train system totally destroyed.” GM, in the face of such harsh accusations, made no recorded public response except to admit to its investment in American City Lines, a company with which National City Lines merged in 1946.
(9) Thus bacterially synthesized hGH behaves identically to pituitary-derived hGH with respect to body length, sulfate incorporation into costal and epiphyseal cartilage, body weight and organ growth of Snell dwarf mice, with one exception: increase of weight of the kidneys, as a function of body weight, was more pronounced after treatment with hGH than with bhGH.
(10) It’s a brilliant mix of backpacking, volunteering and surfing – and what’s even better is you might get a qualification at the end of it,” says Jennifer Snell, 20, from Wiltshire, who combined an office job with working as a fishmonger in Tesco to raise the money.
(11) Refraction effects from planar tissue layer interfaces are analyzed using Snell's law and measured using phantoms.
(12) Congenital deficiency of growth hormone, prolactin, and TSH was first described in Snell dwarf mice.
(13) These diseases are highly infectious, very difficult to treat and can have severe complications, particularly in children, but they are vaccine-preventable,” the South Australian health minister, Jack Snelling, told reporters on Friday.
(14) In the last decade this work culminated in the close study of the Little Mouse with isolated growth hormone deficiency--thus exposing the panhypopituitary model (the human pituitary dwarf, Snell Smith mouse or hypophysectomised rat) as non-optimal models.
(15) Adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) produced an insignificant stimulation of pregnenolone biosynthesis from endogenous precursors in isolated cells prepared from the rat Snell adrenal carcinoma 494.
(16) Formation of these two products supports a previously proposed mechanism of inactivation (Hayashi, H., Tanase, S., and Snell, E. E. (1986) J. Biol.
(17) The results indicate that dopaminergic A12 neurons in Snell dwarf mice are present and viable.
(18) No differences in metabolism of [7alpha-(3)H]dehydroepiandrosterone or [4-(14)C]pregnenolone were detected between adrenal tissue from Sprague-Dawley, Wistar and Osborne-Mendel rats, but experiments with the Snell rat adrenocortical tumour 494 showed that this tissue had low 5alpha-reductase activity.
(19) While at the museum I spent some time talking to geologist Andrew Snelling.
(20) originally designated (H. Kagamiyama, H. Wada, H. Matsubara, and E. E. Snell, 1972, J. Biol.