(n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
(n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
(n.) One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
(n.) The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
(v. t.) To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
(v. t.) To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(2) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(3) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
(4) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
(5) Recent studies point to the involvement of regulatory peptides in diseases of the gut and lung.
(6) "Gut closure" is an unlikely explanation for these findings.
(7) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(8) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(9) The mRNA data of the developing gut correspond with previous protein data, which showed that the shorter Mr 210,000 polypeptide predominates during earlier developmental stages and the larger Mr 260,000 polypeptide appears later in the embryonic gut (Aufderheide, E., and P. Ekblom.
(10) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
(11) Agents that lower total plasma or LDL cholesterol in hypercholesterolaemic patients by interfering with cholesterol reabsorption from the gut (cholestyramine, cholestipol) or reduction of hepatic VLDL release (fibrates) do not appear to interfere with platelet hyperreactivity and do not change platelet-derived thromboxane formation.
(12) Females had an increased excretion of PCBs and increased accumulation in gut and gonads compared to males.
(13) The aim of the present study was to determine if dexamethasone treatment increased the rate of appearance in plasma of gut-derived glucose.
(14) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
(15) No acute or chronic GVHD was seen in two patients, grade II (skin only) was seen in one patient, and grade IV (skin, liver, and gut) was seen in one patient.
(16) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
(17) Our results suggest that the increased Copro-IgE levels may be a specific consequence of the local immune response to food allergen stimulation in the gut mucosa.
(18) At the external wall of the host's gut, parasitic cysts of this nematode with immature stages inside were also observed.
(19) The results provide further in vivo evidence that ROI are causative agents in H liberation during reperfusion of the ischemic gut.
(20) Intravenous administration of ADS did not affect the transit, indicating the importance of the presence of ADS in the gut lumen.
Visceral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
(a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(2) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
(3) Both genes are expressed in the fetal liver, gut, and visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and are repressed shortly after birth in the liver and gut.
(4) The prognosis of vascular amyloidosis seems to be more favourable than that of the classical visceral types.
(5) The amount of spinal visceral afferences is relatively small (only 1.5-2.5% of all somatic spinal afferences).
(6) Staging classifications are being refined to reflect increasing knowledge of important prognostic indicators, e.g., absence or presence of lymph node involvement, pattern of lymph node involvement, and absence or presence of visceral disease.
(7) Cadmium, anti-visceral yolk sac antibody (AVYS) and trypan blue all inhibited pinocytosis in a concentration-dependent fashion when added to the culture medium, although at low concentrations trypan blue was slightly stimulatory.
(8) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(9) Khera (1973, 1975, 1977) reported that administration of ETU to pregnant rats could induce anomalies in the visceral organs and the central nervous system of fetuses in food toxicology.
(10) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(11) Discriminant analysis of eleven currently utilized blood markers of the phlogistic reaction and of the nutritional status has afforded the selection of the two most reliable acute-phase reactants (orosomucoid and C-reactive protein) and visceral proteins (albumin and prealbumin).
(12) Seventy-seven patients with metastases confined to skeleton and 73 patients bearing visceral-only disease were identified.
(13) It has become clear that a number of neuropeptides are found in sensory nerves, some of which have been identified in visceral afferents.
(14) Specificity of the Dot-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Dot-ELISA) for visceral leishmaniasis was significantly improved through the use of enzyme-conjugated antisera specific for IgG heavy chains.
(15) To our knowledge, this is the second report of myelitis in the course of visceral larva migrans.
(16) Cryosurgery and large-size excision are therapeutic steps of good palliative effectiveness in the treatment of skinmetastasised melanoblastoma, provided that no visceral metastasation has taken place.
(17) The autonomous-visceral pathology observed in cases of cervical injuries can be attributed to the direct effect of the trauma upon the segmental innervation appratus of the heart, diaphragm, thorax.
(18) The monkey was dissected one year after inoculation, no evidence of visceral involvement was noted.
(19) Using alkaline phosphatase as a marker for germ cells, it was shown that these cells are absent in the 12-day-old visceral yolk sac examined before and after organ culture.
(20) Visceral involvement is common, may follow or precede the cutaneous involvement and rarely, may be the only manifestation of the disease.