(n.) Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fourteen patients on average 10 months after transplantation of the kidney treated with Sandimmune were changed to a new Czechoslovak preparation Consupren, Galena (Cyclosporine A), while maintaining the other components of immunosuppressive treatment (azathioprine, prednisone).
(2) The galena forms currently on sale were, with the exception of lactate and pyrollidone carboxylate, immediately rejected since they contain insufficient Mg2+.
(3) An experimental comparative investigation provided evidence of identical immunomodulating properties of the Swiss cyclosporin A of Sandoz Company (Sandimmune) and the Czechoslovak cyclosporin of Galena Company (Consupren).
(4) A statistically significant excess of deaths from hypertensive disease (females aged greater than or equal to 65), ischemic heart disease (males and females aged greater than or equal to 65), and stroke (females aged greater than or equal to 65) was found in residents of Galena City.
(5) This study confirms that environmental agents in Galena are associated with, and may have contributed to, the causation of several chronic diseases in residents of this community.
(6) Mortality rates for 1980-85 for white residents of Galena and for the U.S. were compared using univariate analysis.
(7) Based on the unusual growth on galena, we name the new species Thiobacillus plumbophilus (type strain Gro7; DSM 6690).
(8) They grow by oxidation of H2S, galena (PbS) and H2.
(9) Our essential problem is to prepare a form of galena with acceptable taste, tolerated by the digestive tract and well absorbed; also, the carrier compound must not cause short- or long-term side effects.
(10) The non-selective treatment was performed in 125 dairy cows in the form of single administration of Oxymykoin foam (Galena) (70 cows) and Chronicin foam (Galena) (55 cows) after the last milking in lactation.
(11) Under the light microscope no significant changes were observed in the lungs from animals treated with galena, lead silicate, and travertine.
(12) Among residents of the three towns who had lived there at least 5 years prior to 1980, there was either a statistically significant or borderline excess reported prevalence in Galena of chronic kidney disease (females aged greater than or equal to 65), heart disease (females aged greater than or equal to 45), skin cancer (males aged 45-64), and anemia (females aged 45-64).
(13) Multivariate analyses revealed statistically significant associations of stroke, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, heart disease, skin cancer, and anemia with variables related to Galena exposure.
(14) Age- and sex-specific illness rates in whites in an exposed town (Galena) were compared with similar rates in two control towns.
(15) Results were compared with rats that were given particles of galena, lead silicate, travertine, and quartz.
Galenic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Galenical
(an.) Alt. of Galenical
Example Sentences:
(1) The biological availability of spironolactone in two different galenic preparations (Spiro-Tablinen and Aldactone-100 Caps) was investigated in a single-blind, randomised, cross-over study in six healthy probands.
(2) Such a vessel cannot be either the true vein of Galen or an internal cerebral vein; therefore it has to be a persistent fetal vein, the median prosencephalic vein, which drains the choroid plexuses of the lateral and third ventricles between the 7th and 12th weeks, and disappears normally to be replaced by the internal cerebral veins, when the intrinsic vascularization of the neural tube develops.
(3) Further galenical development of the tablets and better patient information should reduce the number of patients injured.
(4) Cerebral angiography is the most valuable method for the diagnosis of this anomaly and its venous phase reveals dysgenesis of the galenic drainage as well as of the dural sinuses.
(5) It goes without saying that galenics also play an important role.
(6) A national survey was conducted to assess modalities and results of therapy for aneurysm of Galen's ampulla.
(7) Aneurysm of the vein of Galen is a very rare disease.
(8) Cerebral angiograms showed a large aneurysm of the great vein of Galen fed by a single enlarged arterial branch from the left posterior cerebral artery.
(9) Investigations on 21 persons showed no significant difference between absorption rates of the galenic preparations used when administered orally before or after breakfast, respectively.
(10) Cardiac catheterization suggested an intracranial arteriovenous (AV) fistula, and cerebral arteriography showed a malformation of the vein of Galen.
(11) The occluded straight sinus and an unusual vein draining the Galenic system to the superior sagittal sinus were demonstrated angiographically.
(12) Both Alberto and Galen have made their position clear and refute the allegations made against them, as shown in Alberto’s open letter.
(13) Galen is one of the hardest-working, most honest and genuine athletes I have ever known.
(14) The enumeration of the cranial nerves is traced briefly from Galen's seven to Willis' ten and to von Sömmerring's twelve.
(15) It is proposed that the vein of Galen aneurysm represents a venous ectasia secondary to an increased flow (usually caused by a deep-seated arteriovenous shunt draining either directly into the vein of Galen aneurysm or into a tributary of the vein of Galen) associated with obstruction of a dural sinus distal to the aneurysm.
(16) They're all on their feet - except Farah, who rolls on the track before being picked up by Galen Rupp of the US who finished second in 27.30.90.
(17) During the next year he held two public dissections, and in 1536 he was the author of the first text illustrating a Galenic dissection of the human brain.
(18) I had a conversation with Galen in 2011 and he told me how tired he was and how he was so excited to have the season be over,” said Goucher.
(19) The absence of the activity of H. procumbens after an acid treatment (0.1 N hydrochloric acid), stomach, suggests the use of a suitable galenic preparation in order to protect the active principles from the action of the acid released in the stomach.
(20) Three infants with vein of Galen malformations, all presenting with congestive heart failure, underwent a total of five embolization procedures that employed a percutaneous transfemoral venous approach to catheterize the vein of Galen.