(1) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
(2) In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise.
(3) The results of work by several investigators indicate that crossbridge attachment serves as a positive feedback mechanism that transiently increases the Ca2+ affinity of troponin C (TnC) during each normal heartbeat.
(4) Nevertheless, the mutants survive through stage 41, which is about 20 days beyond the heartbeat stage, and they exhibit normal swimming movements, indicating that gene c does not affect skeletal muscle.
(5) Cardiac slowing that marked the respiratory segmentation of the heartbeat showed consistent relationship with the breath it preceded by 1 to 5 s. Thus, association of respiration and heartbeat must include synergistically central interrelated origins for respiration cardiac rates constituting the RHRR.
(6) And with every heartbeat the blood was pumping up in the air from my thigh.” A man pointed a rifle at his head and threatened to finish him off.
(7) Muirfield can "turn around on you in a heartbeat", Scott had warned beforehand, and so it proved once again.
(8) Other ITV Productions shows bought in by SMG and UTV for broadcast by their ITV franchises include Emmerdale, Heartbeat, I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
(9) This paper documents this analysis, which supports the concept of a close similarity in lifespan heartbeats among mammalian species and among avian species.
(10) Former senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Governor Paul LePage of Maine, favorites of the blue-collar north-east, are likely to be angling for jobs in a Trump White House, but a heartbeat away from the presidency.
(11) 2.-- Carcinine had no influence upon heartbeat frequency nor on respiratory movements in rats.
(12) The former TV and radio presenter, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat, sleeps on the bottom bunk of the bed he shares with his cellmate because he is unable to tackle the ladders, the court heard.
(13) The heartbeat bill, passed seemingly out of nowhere by the Ohio senate last week , would have been the most restrictive abortion law in the country.
(14) An acceleration of heartbeat precedes the cardiac arrest observed in about five minutes.
(15) The consultant said: 'As long as there is a foetal heartbeat we can't do anything.'
(16) "We are taking a look at Heartbeat and seeing what we can do to make it less expensive and make it more modern so that the production of the show can continue," he said.
(17) The results suggest that in the early embryonic initial beating chick heart, the contractile system is activated by Ca2+ influx across the sarcolemma accompanying the action potential, and that a Na+-Ca2+ exchange mechanism participates in the relaxation phase of the heartbeat.
(18) With this monitor the evaluation of characteristic parameters of the conduction system of the heart like HV-, AH- and A'H-time, and likely, SACT can easily be performed for every heartbeat on a digital oscilloscope with low resolution or a two-channel chart recorder.
(19) England are to have the slogan "The dream of one team, the heartbeat of millions!!"
(20) Heartbeat, which originally starred Nick Berry as a London policeman transferred to a north Yorkshire village, was for years a mainstay of ITV's Sunday night schedule, attracting audiences of 15 million viewers in its 1990s heyday.
Wink
Definition:
(v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
(v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
(v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
(v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
(v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
(v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
(v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.
(n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
(n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
(2) His wink-wink, nod-nod racist slogan, “Make America great again,” together with his apocalyptic dirge of a convention, left exposed and unguarded a flank that is usually the Republicans’ specialty.
(3) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(4) The first case was characterised by a bilateral jaw-winking phenomenon along with an asymmetric bilateral congenital ptosis, whereas the second case had bizarre spontaneous movements of the affected lid, deficient abduction and pseudoptosis in association with jaw-winking.
(5) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(6) On the way into the ministerial press conference room – the blue room – Abbott gave his characteristic wink.
(7) Since then, several of you have tipped us a wink in the direction of one such man in black who actually did find the net - in a third division game between Barrow AFC and Plymouth Argyle back on November 9 1968.
(8) In England you have the big games but you don’t have el clásico, ” he offered with a wink.
(9) This method eliminates the jaw winking phenomenon as well as lifting the lid.
(10) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(11) Without nudging and winking, the impression given to the US seems clear enough.
(12) I’m so tortured with guilt and remorse, I haven’t slept a wink in the last 13 years.” 2007.
(13) He laughs and winks: “And we gave up sitting in pubs for three or four hours a day!
(14) And it may be the sunshine, but he appears to be winking.
(15) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
(16) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
(17) That’s a specialised form of garden work they’re wanting,” he told me with a wink, and when I still didn’t twig, he explained that Garberville is the capital of Californian marijuana culture.
(18) In a wink to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Whaledump lists as its contact address “Flat 3b, 3 Hans Crescent”, site of the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
(19) In patients with severe Marcus Gunn jaw-winking, ablation of the synkinetic eyelid movement requires surgical removal of a significant portion of the levator complex (muscle and aponeurosis).
(20) Asked who collects these objects, Darrow winks: "People who have money."