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Ictus


Definition:

  • (n.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.
  • (n.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fasting serum glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, and fructosamine concentrations were determined in 304 consecutive subjects admitted with acute stroke, within 48 hours of ictus.
  • (2) These drugs have been used in primary infarction prophylaxis and secondary prophylaxis of arterial thrombosis at a cardiac (reinfarction, instable angina, valvular prosthesis, aortocoronary bypass, coronary angioplasty), cerebral (TIA, ictus) and peripheral (obliterating arteriopathy, thromboendarterectomy, arteriovenous shunt) level.
  • (3) The CT lesion reappeared with recurrence of the ictus in four cases during follow-up, and this, too, disappeared after complete arrest of the seizures.
  • (4) Daily trends in blood pressure, osmolality and electrolytes were analyzed in a series of 173 operated aneurysm cases who had subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and were admitted within 4 days of the ictus.
  • (5) The signals were hypointense or hyperintense compared to the normal side according to the intervals between the MRI examinations and the ictuses.
  • (6) This study included 72 cases of surgically treated aneurysms, Hunt and Hess Grades 1-4, operated on within 72 hours of the ictus.
  • (7) "Break of contact" during the ictus was found in 70% of the seizures, and secondary generalization occurred in half.
  • (8) The results suggest that about half of all patients with ischaemic stroke in Hong Kong would present within 12 hours of ictus, in time for inclusion in a therapeutic trial.
  • (9) Ictal EEG showed rhythmic alpha-waves in the left frontal area association with the ictus.
  • (10) In the relatively early stages, at least three months after ictus, increased signal intensities in axial T2-weighted images--with or without decreased signal intensities in axial T1-weighted images--were observed in the brain stem ipsilaterally.
  • (11) Contrast-enhanced CT may provide a contributory method in the establishment of cerebral death, in addition to elucidating the etiology of the ictus.
  • (12) Twelve patients with acute hypertensive intracranial hemorrhage underwent magnetic resonance (MR) imaging within 7 days after the ictus.
  • (13) A multi-center controlled double-blind clinical study was carried out to evaluate the effects of nizofenone in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage who were treated within 2 weeks of the ictus.
  • (14) In this model, therefore, ischemic damage appears to be due to the local effects of blood overlying the cortex at 4 hours after the ictus, rather than to globally raised intracranial pressure.
  • (15) In later stages, at least six months after ictus, shrinkage of the brain stem ipsilaterally--with or without decreased signal intensities--was clearly observed in axial T1-weighted images.
  • (16) Light reflex of the left pupil had seen 5 days after the ictus.
  • (17) The levels found in samples obtained in patients following SAH are compared with those found in controls and also correlated with clinical grade on admission as assessed by the Glasgow Coma Score and the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons' grading system, and with the amount of subarachnoid blood seen on CT, the occurrence of ischaemic deterioration, the occurrence of low-density change on CT, the presence of vasospasm on angiography, clinical outcome as assessed by the Glasgow Outcome Score 3 months following the ictus, and the incidence of ischaemia as a cause of death or disability as assessed 3 months following the ictus.
  • (18) At the chronic stage (more than two weeks after the ictus) the signal pattern of hematomas became variable: hyperintense on both T1WIs and T2WIs early at this stage; hypointense on T1WIs but mostly hyperintense on T2WIs latter.
  • (19) In a prospective study to correlate admission glucose level with neurologic outcome in stroke, 252 acute stroke patients without prior disability and admitted within 24 hours of onset of ictus were assessed.
  • (20) The lipid profiles of the 53 patients suffering lacunar infarction were similar on both occasions, the only significant differences being higher total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol concentrations less than or equal to 48 hours after ictus.

Insect


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
  • (n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
  • (n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
  • (n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
  • (a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
  • (4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
  • (5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
  • (6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
  • (7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
  • (8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
  • (9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
  • (10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
  • (11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
  • (12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
  • (13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
  • (14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
  • (15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
  • (16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
  • (17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
  • (18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
  • (19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
  • (20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.