(n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
(n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
(n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.
(n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
(n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
(n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.
(n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
(n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
(n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
(v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.
(v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(2) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(3) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(4) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(5) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(6) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(7) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(8) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(9) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(10) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(11) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(12) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(13) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(14) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(15) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(16) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(17) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
(18) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(19) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
(20) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
Linden
Definition:
(n.) A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
(n.) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.
Example Sentences:
(1) The yeast flora of the majority of studied plants is diverse and comprises 10--20 species (in cabbage, potato, linden, aspen, and pear trees).
(2) The diuresis in response to distension of the atrial appendages is similar to that previously described in response to distension of the pulmonary vein-atrial junctions by Ledsome & Linden (1968).4.
(3) Van der Linden said: "This country is used to women.
(4) Polly Brooks was the only member of her holiday group to emerge alive: her husband of five weeks, Dan Miller, died, along with her bridesmaid Annika Linden, and seven other friends from their party.
(5) Sometimes you could go for three months without seeing a single case.” CT scans of the babies’ brains showed signs of calcification caused by an infectious disease rather than a genetic abnormality, leading Van Der Linden to suspect that there was a new virus at work.
(6) On Saturday, protesters demanded Linden re-open the gallery which, aside from Yore's piece, houses the Like Mike exhibition, a series of work by seven artists in tribute to the late Mike Brown, the only Australian artist to be successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
(7) The work, titled Everything is Fucked, was on display at St Kilda’s Linden Centre for Contemporary Art last year.
(8) The influence of acetone extract vapours of pepper, poplar buds, linden and aspen was tested.
(9) Foley didn't blame the police for the raid but said that "fringe views" on the local City of Port Phillip council, which funds the Linden centre, were encouraging censorship.
(10) A1 adenosine receptors and associated guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins) were purified from bovine cerebral cortex by affinity chromatography (Munshi, R., and Linden, J.
(11) As reported previously (Linden and Perry, 1982; Perry and Linden, 1982; Ault et al., 1985; Eysel et al., 1985), we found that the dendritic fields of all types of ganglion cells on the border of an area depleted of ganglion cells extended into the depleted area.
(12) Vinnie, who declined to give his last name, was walking out of his house on Elizabeth Street in Linden when he saw police cars rush past his house.
(13) In the 1960s and 1970s modern plastics were introduced to moulage technology at the Linden Dermatological Clinic in Hannover.
(14) Its main street – once Lenin Avenue, now Linden Avenue – still has a distinctly GDR feel, with monumental tower blocs overlooking a wide cobbled boulevard.
(15) The time of maximal occurrence of pyknotic nuclei in the retinal ganglion cell layer of postnatal pearl mutant mice is earlier than that in normal mice (Linden and Pinto 1985).
(16) On one day in August last year, Dr Vanessa Van Der Linden, a neuro-paediatrician working at Recife’s Hospital Barão de Lucena, saw three babies with the condition.
(17) Marc van der Linden, chief editor of Royalty magazine, said: "It will be chaos, but we Dutch like some chaos.
(18) By 11.25am, officials had announced that Rahami had been taken into custody after a shootout in Linden, New Jersey.
(19) The castle used to occupy the most prominent spot in Unter den Linden, opposite Berlin's neo-rococo cathedral and pleasure garden.
(20) The present study was designed, first, to attempt to replicate the previously derived Goldstein and Linden Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory alcoholic personality subtypes, and second, to relate these personality patterns to a multidimensional measure of alcohol usage.