(a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ruthenium red (RuR) inhibits Ca2+ uptake and transmitter release in synaptosomes, and produces flaccid paralysis when injected intraperitoneally (IP) and convulsions after intracranial administration.
(2) The barostat quantitates muscular wall tone indirectly by measuring its reciprocal, e.g., the volume of air within a flaccid intraluminal bag that is maintained at a constant and preselected pressure, by an electronic feedback mechanism.
(3) The protein synthesis rate was lower in the central core than in the periphery of incubated flaccid control muscles.
(4) On admission, he was comatose and flaccid with his four extremities.
(5) The sodium ionophore monensin induces a suppression of motility, leading to a rapid flaccid paralysis (in approximately 1.5 h at 1 x 10(-7) M, and within a few minutes at higher concentrations).
(6) The aim of the article is to show that its indication to reinforce flaccid musculature or to cover muscular defects of the abdominal wall is fully justified even in a time of routine use of plastic nets.
(7) We studied the influence of sepsis on muscle protein synthesis and degradation in vivo and in muscles, incubated flaccid or at resting length.
(8) The patient developed a confluent maculopapular erythema and large flaccid bullae of trunk, legs, feet and mucous membranes, with fever up to 38 degrees C. Toxic epidermal necrolisis (TEN) was supposed and the diagnosis was confirmed by a skin patch test followed by cutaneous biopsy.
(9) We also confirm that a tetanus toxin-derived fragment, the Ibc fragment, which is not transported retrogradely, produces flaccid paralysis.
(10) This negative pressure of the anterior mediastinum would result from an absent cardiac mass which was displaced leftward, favoured by an enlarged and flaccid pericardial sac.
(11) We analyzed the results of transfers of the iliopsoas or external oblique muscles performed to augment the abductor power of the hips in 149 patients with flaccid paralysis of the hips.
(12) The neurological manifestations developed during adolescence with slurred and slow speech with scanning, muscle flaccidity, sings of Trömner and Jacobson, intentional tremor, equilibrium disturbances.
(13) Sacral shingles is associated with sensory loss and flaccid detrusor paralysis.
(14) The results suggest that a noradrenergic alpha-adrenoceptor system maintains penile flaccidity in the dog.
(15) Of the four surviving cases with flaccid paralysis, three had residual weakness in their lower limbs and walked with an abnormal gait 3 years after the acute paralytic attack.
(16) An infant presented at birth with symmetrical flaccid paraparesis limited to lower legs and feet, and involving the proximal and distal muscle group.
(17) Rats injected with 10(6) 9L gliosarcoma cells showed progressive weight loss, flaccid paralysis, and neurogenic bladder dysfunction and had a median survival of 11 days.
(18) Moreover, combined beta-endorphin and haloperidol treatment produced flaccidity in most animals.
(19) The stimulator has been working satisfactorily since November 1965.This stimulator could eventually also be used in purely sensory sacral lesions, in well-selected incomplete lower motor neuron lesions, and in flaccid detrusors of the myogenic type.A review of the literature up to the time of this report shows only a few encouraging but incomplete results in humans.
(20) Six malnourished children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis caused by hypokalaemia are described.
Wilt
Definition:
() 2d pers. sing. of Will.
(v. i.) To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither.
(v. t.) To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green plant.
(v. t.) Hence, to cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
(2) Dwight Gayle converted with ease though, even then, Town refused to wilt.
(3) The balloons may have wilted and Nicholas Witchell's episiotomy stitches begun to heal, but the circus shows few signs of moving on.
(4) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
(5) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
(6) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(7) Alfalfa, red clover, orchardgrass and timothy were harvested in the vegetative stage, wilted and stored as hay, or ensiled in small batch silos (20 kg) at 60, 40 or 20% (direct cut) dry matter and were analyzed for compositional differences.
(8) In the cells of wilted plants only 60% of the mRNA nucleotide sequences present in the controls are synthesized.
(9) Effects of wilting of grass prior to ensiling on OM intake, ruminal digestibility, efficiency of bacterial protein synthesis, and amount and composition of duodenal N fraction were examined using four lactating Holstein cows.
(10) Silage had a lower disappearance rate of CP than wilted grass.
(11) Most of the test fields had cultivated conventional brinjals previously and so they contained pathogens of bacterial wilt and fungus left over from those conventional crops, he said.
(12) Chelsea must rise to that challenge, and their refusal to wilt was heartening, prompting comparisons with Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, whose constant probing would often draw late rewards from apparent lost causes.
(13) The complete nucleotide sequence of the S RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was determined.
(14) Some of our favourite things to stir in include: chickpeas and fried chorizo pieces; crisply fried smoked streaky bacon and frozen peas; chunks of aubergine fried in a pan, crumbled ricotta or cream cheese on top; capers and basil; chopped anchovies, a little cream and chopped rosemary; wilted rocket with crumbled feta on top; or chopped basil, a knob of butter, and a little balsamic.
(15) #USAvGER June 2, 2013 Germany have looked rather "wilted" in this last ten minutes.
(16) The synthesis of viral RNA species in tomato spotted wilt virus-infected Nicotiana rustica plants was followed in terms of time and relative abundance.
(17) Fiber-associated protein increased markedly with increases in DM during wilting, and these differences were present in the mature silage of both ryegrass and alfalfa.
(18) Complementary DNA to the genomic RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was synthesized and cloned in either pUC19 or lambda gt10.
(19) While a less crushing defeat is expected this time, analysts are not predicting significant gains for fragmented, uninspired opponents that have wilted under the EPRDF’s glare.
(20) Bolton’s Shola Ameobi ends drought as Steve Evans’ Leeds earn a point Read more Elsewhere in west London, another dark, gloomy cloud was lifted from over another wilting manager.