(n.) The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.
(n.) An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed.
(n.) That which hedges in; inclosure.
(n.) The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
(2) The impaled cardiac cells which generated transitional action potentials were identified in serial sections and studied with the light and the electron microscopes.
(3) Impalements of sufficient quality to demonstrate inhibition by carotid baroreceptor stimulation (blind sac inflation) were obtained for 9 cells.
(4) Impalement of identified principal cells from the serosal side with single-barrelled conventional or double-barrelled Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes was performed at x500 magnification.
(5) Electrical stimulation of the arcuate nucleus did not elicit any detectable synaptic response in impaled tanycytes, so that the functional significance of synaptoid contacts between neuroendocrine neurons and the postsynaptic tanycytes is not yet apparent.
(6) cell volume changes); luminal and contraluminal cell borders are well resolved for controlled microelectrode impalement.
(7) One of these interneurons was impaled intracellularly, characterized physiologically, and then labeled by intracellular horseradish peroxidase (HRP) injection to examine the distribution and ultrastructure of synapses.
(8) Application of TEA in the presence of bicuculline (10(-5) M) increased the amplitude and duration of the DS in neurons impaled with D890-containing electrodes.
(9) The relatively rare occurrence of this type of oscillation in impaled neurons, as compared with extracellular recordings in the same nucleus or to intracellular recordings in other dorsal thalamic nuclei, suggests that the interplay between the two intrinsic currents generating delta oscillation is particularly critical in lateral geniculate cells.
(10) The neurons are stimulated by a microelectrode impaled in the soma.
(11) Smooth muscle cells were impaled near the myenteric border between the circular and longitudinal layers.
(12) It is concluded that the leak impalement artifact is so significant in micro-electrode recordings from hamster eggs that it prevents routine reliable potential measurements.
(13) Intradendritic impalements were obtained to more accurately assess changes in the intracellular EPSP following HFS.
(14) Biological (stratum corneum) and artificial (cation-exchange resin beads, Bio-Rad AG 50W-X2) ion exchangers were impaled by glass microelectrodes filled with KCl solution.
(15) During whole-cell recordings, however, regular potential oscillations were observed in the cells that had not been impaled with a conventional microelectrode, as far as the Ca2+ buffer was not strong in the pipette solution.
(16) Following impalement with intracellular electrodes, the large calyciform nerve terminals innervating chick ciliary ganglion neurons exhibit pronounced inward rectification upon hyperpolarization that increases with increasing current strength.
(17) Human red cells in modified Ringer solution were impaled individually with 3 M KCl-filled glass microelectrodes.
(18) The physiological properties of these double-labelled corticospinal neurons were indistinguishable from those of comparable neurons which were impaled with biocytin-containing electrodes without prior RLM-labelling, and neurons studied with potassium acetate-filled electrodes in similar areas.
(19) This confirms (i) the intracellular location of the microelectrode and the absence of impalement artifacts, and (ii) the ineffectiveness of ADH upon the electromotive forces of the inner border.
(20) To suppress contractile responses and thereby facilitate sustained impalements, the muscle strips were bathed with a hypertonic solution containing sucrose.
Implement
Definition:
(n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.
(v. t.) To accomplish; to fulfill.
(v. t.) To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.
(v. t.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(2) This may result in the unnecessary implementation of antidotal therapy.
(3) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
(4) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(5) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(6) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(7) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
(8) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(9) And all agencies must also now implement the wider recommendations made in the Inspectors' report.
(10) The development and implementation processes are described.
(11) In this article we analyze the nature of the correspondence computation and derive a cooperative algorithm that implements it.
(12) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
(13) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(14) Issues which nurse administrators and researchers should consider when selecting and implementing organizational models are presented.
(15) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(16) At the masters level, efforts are generally directed at utilization and evaluation of research more than design and implementation.
(17) Because many individuals begin smoking soon after joining the Navy, effective prevention programs need to be implemented in recruit training and repeated in early training schools.
(18) An immunization program was implemented in August 1988 using a recombinant vaccine (GenHevac BTM).
(19) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(20) Thus, HBsAG screening should be done along with the implementation of a blood policy that ensures the procurement of sufficient blood for hemotheraphy in Ethiopia.