(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.
Sulphide
Definition:
(n.) A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sulphides, which possibly form on silver alloys, showed cytotoxicity.
(2) Bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus can obtain energy from the chemolithotrophic oxidation of inorganic sulphur and its compounds (sulphide, thiosulphate and polythionates) and use this energy to support autotrophic growth on carbon dioxide.
(3) Elevations in blood methanethiol and dimethyl sulphide concentration in children with congenital hypermethioninaemia were not associated with any neurological or electroencephalographic features of hepatic coma.
(4) No significant changes in respiratory function or bronchial responsiveness related to exposure to hydrogen sulphide in the pulp mill workers were found.
(5) Therapeutic procedure are based either on physical media: infra-red rays, gamma-rays, electric fields for the transformation of temperature or using chemical mixtures containing methyl bromide, carbon tetrachloride and hydrogen sulphide.
(6) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
(7) Although it has a level of hepatic fixation which is less than that of certain sulphide complexes of technetium, the authors feel that it appears to provide a better relfection of the colloidopexic function of the liver.
(8) Ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulphide and methyl mercaptides were analyzed in the atmospheres of 16 Finnish municipal waste water treatment plants and in 18 pumping stations.
(9) Both TPM and chlorhexidine brought about significant decreases in volatile sulphides (P less than 0.05) as compared to the placebo group.
(10) It is a molybdenum hydroxylase containing 1.6 mol of FAD, 7.3 mol of Fe, 8.3 mol of acid-labile sulphide and 1.3 mol of Mo per mol of enzyme.
(11) A single and chronic inhalation exposure to a complex of chemical substances being part of hydrogen sulphide-containing natural gas (hydrogen sulphide, hydrocarbon, mercaptan, sulphur dioxide) results in a decline in humoral indicators of non-specific body resistance.
(12) The oxidation of sulphide in cell-free extracts proceeds most likely to polysulphanes or to elemental sulphur, depending on the conditions.
(13) Concentration-time interactions were investigated in young male and female Sprague-Dawley, Long Evans and Fischer-344 rats exposed to hydrogen sulphide for two, four or six hours.
(14) The content of hydrogen sulphide reached 6.8 mg per litre which resulted in a change of the ecological environment in the lake.
(15) The flow of sulphide, sulphate, microbial S and non-microbial organic S from the abomasum was estimated using 103Ru and 51Cr.
(16) Addition of sulphide to rumen contents did not result in significant changes in the distribution of Cu between the fluid and solid phases, or in the solubility of Cu in TCA.
(17) The Km values for sulphide and O-acetylserine are 2.7 - 10(-3) and 1.25 - 10(-3) M, respectively.
(18) The method is based on the disintegration of S-methyl methionine in the alkaline medium to form equimolecular quantities of dimethyl sulphide and homoserine.
(19) Official local autopsy reports on 12 alleged victims showed fatal levels of the poisonous gas hydrogen sulphide, one of the waste's lethal byproducts.
(20) Using the histochemical Timm sulphide silver method, a strain-specific, increased stainability of the cell bodies of the dentate granule cells and the hippocampal pyramidal cells was observed in the inbred Kyoto rat.