(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.
Squid
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of ten-armed cephalopods having a long, tapered body, and a caudal fin on each side; especially, any species of Loligo, Ommastrephes, and related genera. See Calamary, Decacerata, Dibranchiata.
(n.) A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(3) Video-enhanced contrast light microscopy was used to directly observe dynamic length changes in native, MAP-containing microtubules from squid axoplasm.
(4) Lens crystallins were isolated from cephalopods, octopus and squid.
(5) Anion conductances of giant axons of squid, Sepioteuthis, were measured.
(6) A novel nonapeptide, sequence YAIVARPRFamide, was isolated from brain extracts of the squid, L. vulgaris.
(7) n-Aequorin J, a luminescent protein which responds to calcium concentration changes in the order of several hundred micromoles, was injected into the preterminal fiber in the squid giant synapse.
(8) The transmembrane potential of voltage-clamped squid giant axon is increased to compensate for a reduction in the rate of potassium channel kinetics when artificial seawater with trivalent erbium ion is substituted for artificial seawater.
(9) During both of them the magnetic field pattern, determined with a 7- or 24-channel SQUID magnetometer, suggested a dipolar current source.
(10) When a bright light flash is absorbed by a small region in the outer segments of squid photoreceptors fixed in glutaraldehyde, a brief pulse of membrane current flows locally.
(11) (6) It is concluded that in the squid axon the effects on inactivation are not the main reason for the reduction of the sodium current by benzocaine and that, in common with many other neutral anaesthetics, there are at least two sites at which benzocaine acts.
(12) Evoked release of transmitter at the squid giant synapse was examined under conditions where the calcium ion concentration in the presynaptic terminal was manipulated by inhibitors of calcium sequestration.
(13) We have recorded spontaneous magnetoencephalographic (MEG) activity during overnight natural sleep in 4 healthy adults with a 24-channel SQUID gradiometer, mainly over the sides of the head.
(14) Jeletzkya douglassae Johnson and Richardson is described as the oldest known representative of an extant squid group.
(15) The myosin-linked regulatory system rather than the thin-filament-linked regulatory system was predominant in squid myosin B. Squid myosin B required higher Ca2+ and Sr2+ concentrations for Mg-ATPase activity; half-maximal activation of Mg-ATPase was obtained at 0.8 micron Ca2+ and 28 micron Sr2+ with skeletal myosin B, and at 2.5 micron Ca2+ and 140 micron Sr2+ with squid myosin B.
(16) To test the hypothesis that inositol trisphosphate (InsP3) mediates adaptation and excitation in invertebrate photoreceptors, we measured its formation on a rapid time scale in squid retinas.
(17) The developments include a DC SQUID with FM read-out, resulting in the most compact SQUID electronics so far, a planar microwave biased RF SQUID with very high slew rate, and efforts to create reliable SQUIDs with sufficient sensitivity for biomagnetic applications that are cooled by liquid nitrogen.
(18) We report here that a transparent tissue, derived from muscle but functioning as a lens in the light-emitting organ of a squid, Euprymna scolopes, shows striking biochemical convergence with the epidermally derived ocular lenses of some mammals and cephalopods.
(19) (3) The two stable states of the nerve membrane, which are readily demonstrable in TEA-treated or internally perfused squid giant axons, are shown to represent bivalent cation-rich and univalent cation-rich states of the nerve membrane.
(20) Previous work has revealed that 4S RNA is the primary species of RNA in the axoplasm from the giant axons of the squid and Myxicola.