(v. t.) To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
(n.) A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nitrous oxide produced a dose-related analgesic response in rats (ED50, 67%) as measured by the tail-flick method.
(2) To test the hypothesis that EAA agonists are involved in transmission of nociceptive information in the spinal cord, we tested the effect of various opioid, sigma and phencyclidine compounds on the action of NMDA in the tail-flick, hot-plate and biting and scratching nociceptive tests.
(3) Antinociception was studied by measuring tail-flick response to hot (55 degrees C) water.
(4) Looping the tail of a "g", flicking the line up from the end of an "m", arcing it over an "a" or an "o".
(5) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
(6) Three types of behavior of the compound eye of Daphnia magna are characterized: 'flick', a transient rotation elicited by a brief flash of light; 'fixation', a maintained eye orientation in response to a stationary light stimulus of long-duration; 'tracking', the smooth pursuit of a moving stimulus.
(7) On the tail flick method of rats, tolerance to the action of eptazocine was observed, similar to morphine, but not cross-tolerance between eptazocine and morphine.
(8) The CCK 8-induced analgesia or hyperalgesia was not seen in the tail flick test and was not associated with motor incapacitation or any other noticeable side effects.
(9) When Version came out, featuring covers sung by Winehouse, Allen et al, it was again assumed by some that Ronson had simply flicked through his diamanté-encrusted contacts book and got his friends to rehash a few old songs written by other people.
(10) The off-cell exhibits an abrupt pause just prior to the occurrence of the tail flick reflex (TF).
(11) Focal electrical stimulation and glutamate microinjection in the nuclei reticularis gigantocellularis (NGC) and gigantocellularis pars alpha (NGC alpha) both inhibit the nociceptive tail-flick (TF) reflex in rats.
(12) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
(13) administered DPDYN were determined in two nociceptive tests, involving thermal cutaneous (tail-flick) and chemical visceral (AcOH-induced writhing) stimuli, in which mu and kappa receptors are known to be activated differentially.
(14) The antinociceptive properties, as measured by the tail-flick and hot-plate tests, and the motor effects of an intrathecally-administered benzodiazepine agonist midazolam, alone, and in combination with morphine, was examined in rats.
(15) Suppression of the tail flick response to noxious heat and paw withdrawal response to noxious pressure were produced by electrical stimulation of arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARH) in pentobarbital anesthetized rats.
(16) These results indicate that noxious cutaneous stimulation may release an agent in the spinal cord which facilitates the tail flick reflex, and that this agent is antagonized by a substance P antagonist.
(17) The effects of altering sensory input on the motoneuronal activity underlying antennular flicking have been tested.
(18) Irrespective of treatment history, mice showed a retest EPM profile of enhanced anxiety, with tail-flick data suggesting a major contribution of anticipatory factors.
(19) Analgesic potency was evaluated by prolongation of the time required to induce tail-flick.
(20) They were slightly more potent in the formalin test but had no or negligible effects in the tail-flick test.
Volley
Definition:
(n.) A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
(n.) A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.
(n.) A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
(n.) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
(v. t.) To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
(v. i.) To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.
(v. i.) To return the ball before it touches the ground.
(v. i.) To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
(2) Arsenal had the game in their pocket and the Welshman was having such a nightmare - he missed the target with a far-post volley in the second half - that the Arsenal fans were mocking him with chants of 'Give it to Giggsy'.
(3) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
(4) Component 4 principally reflects the second volley of activity within the eighth nerve terminals, and outflow from the ipsilateral superior olivary complex ascending in that lateral lemniscus, with a possible contribution from activity in the contralateral CNC.
(5) The initial effort was poor, hit straight into the wall, but Sánchez took out his anger on the rebound, lashing it through the wall on the volley and past Silvio Proto.
(6) The athletes were mostly volley ball players, jumpers or runners.
(7) The inhibitory effects caused by volleys in cutaneous afferents on the transmission through some polysynaptic segmental pathways activated by high threshold muscle afferents were studied in chloralose anesthetized, spinal cats.
(8) The characteristic increases in the frequency of multiple unit activity (MUA volley) associated with the pulsatile secretion of LH were recorded using electrodes implanted bilaterally in the medial basal hypothalamus.
(9) Ramos was beaten to it, De Gea did not move and Kalinic jumped to ease in a gentle, back-heel-style volley with the outside of his foot.
(10) 23 min: Dani Alves sends in a cross which the unmarked Pedro Rodriguez tries to half-volley home from 14 yards.
(11) A nondescript Gerard Deulofeu corner just before the half-hour was transformed by an improvised, volleyed flick from Gareth Barry.
(12) His first goal was clinical in its execution and classy in its creation but the second was a thing of beauty, a scything volley after he exchanged passes with the substitute Ángel Di María, launching himself into the air and making the perfect connection to volley the ball into the far corner.
(13) The fiber volley was enhanced by lowering [Ca2+] or [Mg2+] and depressed when either ion concentration was raised.
(14) One volley of 120 msec duration at 100 pulses p.s., applied during inspiratory, caused an immediate and transient inhibition of the diaphragmatic activity.
(15) The results provide no evidence for fusimotor sensitization of spindles in muscles remaining relaxed during the Jendrassik manoeuvre, and reflex reinforcement occurring without concomitant signs of active tension rise in the muscles tested is presumed to depend upon altered processing of the afferent volleys within the cord.
(16) In Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, tank transporters carrying dirty armoured fighting vehicles drew a small crowd, and an appreciative volley of machine gun fire.
(17) 'Volleys' of increased multiunit activity (MUA) were recorded for 6-10 h in animals placed in primate chairs.
(18) Using search stimuli which were suprathreshold for C fibres one cell out of 36 could be found which responded only to afferent volleys in C fibres.5.
(19) He attacked, battened down the hatches on his serve and was merciless in the tie-break, levelling the match with a well-placed volley.
(20) Anodal stimulation at the vertex produced complex corticospinal volleys that could be recorded at both sites, with multiple waves analogous to the D and I waves documented in animal experiments.