(1) Infections occured in 26,4% of the patients in the first group and in none of the second group (p less than 0,2); 27,5% of the patients with intracranial lesions and 9% of the patients with spinal lesions in the frist group had post-operative infections, and none in the second group (p less than 0,05 and 0.05 less than p less than 0.1).
(2) The frist group received intermittent treatment with human Growth Hormone (hGH), 1 year on, 1 year off, subsequent years on; the second group received continous treatment.
(3) The incidence of tuberculosis detected by X-ray and clinically was of 298.8 per 100 000 in the frist year and 283.6 per 100000 in the second year.
(4) May went on to set out the reasons for her own opposition to the project, the dangers of pumping crude across Frist Nations lands and wilderness areas, as well as the risks of oil spills from tankers carrying the crude across the Pacific to China.
(5) Mothers who had one hour of close physical contact with their nude full-term infants within the first two hours after delivery and who had 15 extra hours of contact in the frist three days behaved significantly differently during a physical examination of the infant at one month and one year, and in their speech to their infants at two years, from a control group of mothers who had only routine contact.
(6) Over the last week, Republicans have lined up behind possible successors to Mr Lott, with Tennessee senator Bill Frist first among these.
(7) This produced a 36 percent reduction in bronchitis and a 45 percent reduction in pneumonia due to all etiologies in the frist study and 37 percent and 48 percent respectively in the second study.
(8) It is proposed that the primary physician with a talent for understanding the nature of inner conflicts, revealed by the frist or early dreams, may slowly venture into the area of psychotherapy by including in the history of the patient a study of inner conflicts indicated by the dream material.
(9) Frist-line or second-line regimens containing pyrazinamide in currently accepted dosages, given daily or intermittently, carry a low and acceptable risk of hepatic toxicity.
(10) Accommodating this limitation in various ways, different workers have hypothesized (1) that blue-green algae frist evolved in the Early Proterozoic; (2) that oxygen producing proto-cyanobacteria existed in the Archean, but had no biochemical mechanism for coping with ambient O2; and (3) that true cyanobacteria flourished in the Archean, but did not oxygenate the atmosphere because of high rates of oxygen consumption caused, in part, by the emanation of reduced gases from widespread Archean volcanoes.
Wrist
Definition:
(n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
(n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irradiation of the skin overlying the median nerve at the wrist in humans with a low power (1 mW; 632.5 nm) helium-neon laser produced a somatosensory evoked potential obtained at Erb's point.
(2) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(3) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(4) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(5) The heat uptake that resulted from immersing the hand and wrist into a water-filled calorimeter maintained at temperatures between 37-40 degrees C was measured under standard conditions in a group of eight subjects of either sex.
(6) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(7) Tenosynovial biopsy specimens from 177 wrists were obtained from patients at carpal tunnel release, and a control group of 19 specimens was also obtained.
(8) A 31-year-old man was found to have a diffuse infection of the wrist and osteomyelitis of the scaphoid caused by Mycobacterium kansasii.
(9) The index was calculated by dividing the sum of the count rates over both knees and both wrists by the dose of technetium given.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Roentgenograms of hands, wrists, and forefeet were taken at baseline and after 6 and 12 months, and 32 joints were evaluated according to Larsen.
(12) She got it when Alyssa was born and her daughter’s name is inked in black just above her wrist.
(13) Electromyographic reaction times of the left and the right finger extensor muscles in extension movement of the wrist were examined in 42 patients with Parkinson's disease, and 20 normal subjects.
(14) Hand function after surgery in the follow-up period of three to twenty-one months was very satisfactory with the exception of three cases which presented at a very late stage with secondary involvement of the wrists.
(15) A reliability study was conducted to determine (a) the intrarater and interrater reliability of goniometric measurement of active and passive wrist motions under clinical conditions and (b) the effect of a therapist's specialization on the reliability of measurement.
(16) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(17) The data required are recumbent length, nude weight, midparent stature, and hand-wrist skeletal age.
(18) Arthrography before isotope synoviorthesis of the fingers and wrists was carried out in 185 patients suffering from inflammatory rheumatic conditions.
(19) Volar subluxation of the tendons of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist occurred in two patients after surgery for treatment of de Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis.
(20) Distal (5th finger - wrist) and proximal (wrist - elbow) sensory nerve conduction showed an insignificant increase as hyperglycemia was induced.