(n.) Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/).
(n.) Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/).
Example Sentences:
(1) One patient developed hemolytic-uremic syndrome, and one subject developed pulmonary fibrosis, both presumably attributable to treatment with mitomycin C. Another patient died of hepatic failure (hepar lobatum).
(2) The safety of mesothelial integument in hepar capsula has not been damaged.
(3) The conclusions of the two stages are ordered by the amount of evidence computed by HEPAR.
(4) Initial results showed comparable performance of hirudinized saline and heparized saline, both of which were better than saline, for preventing thrombosis.
(5) Besides the uniform daily energy intake of 750 ml of 40% invert sugar and 250 ml of 20% Lipofundin, the daily amino acid infusion of group I (n = 13) was only 500 ml EAS pfrimmer (34.5 g), of group II (n = 10) 250 ml EAS pfrimmer and 250 ml of 7.5% Intrafusin, and of group III (n = 16) 250 ml EAS pfrimmer and 350 ml Aminofusin Hepar (33.1 g).
(6) In three of these patients, all of whom had taken an overdose of paracetamol, the acidosis was severe, present before the onset of clinical heparic failure, and associated with hypoglycaemiaand mild hypotension.
(7) HEPAR is an expert system which can be used as a supportive tool in the diagnosis of disorders of the liver and biliary tract.
(8) This is the first clinico-pathological report of hepar lobatum carcinomatosum (HLC), the rarest form of metastatic liver disease.
(9) The possibility of hepar resection by means of Soviet-made ultrasound device URSK-7N-18 was investigated in experiment on 13 mongrel dogs.
(10) An instance of hepar lobatum of unusual etiology is described.
(11) There were three groups of five dogs each: Group I had no anticoagulants; Group II received systemic heparization; Group III perfusions utilized heparin-bonded circuits.
(12) The representation language employed in HEPAR consists of production rules with object-attribute-value triples.
(13) In this paper the structure, development process and approach followed in the validation of the HEPAR system are described.
(14) The scarring subdivided the liver into irregular areas resulting in the characteristic gross appearance of hepar lobatum.
(15) The possibilities of application of the "Hepar" computer system in medical didactics are discussed.
(16) The HEPAR system is a medical expert system intended as a supportive tool for the diagnosis of disorders of the liver and biliary tract.
(17) Light and heavy petrols influence as well, as that of trichloroethylene on morphological changes in the hepar and lungs of gravid Wistar females was investigated.
(18) During a 3-day infusion period a so-called liver solution (Aminofusin hepar) was given to one group of animals, a normal solution (Infesol) to a second group, and only an electrolyte infusion solution under oral nutrition ad libitum to a third one.
(19) Hepar lobatum is now a rarity in developed countries.
(20) It was found that inhalation of petrols and trichloroethylene in small concentrations caused degenerative changes in the hepar parenchyma, while there were no changes in the lungs.
Liver
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, lives.
(n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
(n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
(n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
(n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(3) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
(4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(5) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(6) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
(7) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(8) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(9) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(10) The effect of 4,4'-methylene bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA), 4,4'-methylene dianiline (MDA) and 4,4'-sulphonyldianiline (Dapsone) in vivo on xenobiotic biotransformation in male rat liver was studied.
(11) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(13) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(14) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
(15) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
(16) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(17) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(18) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(19) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(20) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.