(v. t.) To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.
(v. t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.
(v. t.) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.
(v. t.) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
(2) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
(3) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(4) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(5) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(6) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(7) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(9) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
(10) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(11) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
(12) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
(13) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(14) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
(15) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
(16) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(17) These effects are similar to those reported for AVP and phorbol esters, activators of protein kinase C. Forskolin and isoproterenol, which induce cAMP accumulation, activated extractable topoisomerase II (maximum 5-15 min after treatment), but not topoisomerase I. Permeable cyclic nucleotide analogs dBcAMP and 8BrcGMP selectively activated extractable topoisomerase II and topoisomerase I activities, respectively.
(18) A beta-adrenergic receptor cDNA cloned into a eukaryotic expression vector reliably induces high levels of beta-adrenergic receptor expression in 2-12% of COS cell colonies transfected with this plasmid after experimental conditions are optimized.
(19) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
(20) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
Sleepy
Definition:
(n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
(n.) Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.
(n.) Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
(n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
(2) Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by sleepiness and episodes of cataplexy.
(3) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
(4) The main disabling symptom of narcolepsy-cataplexy is shown to be the unrelenting excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) based upon controlled studies of socioeconomic effects and the poor response to treatment.
(5) We conclude that there is a heterogeneous subpopulation of patients with sleep disorders whose symptoms of daytime sleepiness will show no treatment-related improvement in daytime symptoms if they are evaluated only by the MSLT.
(6) At the same time we evaluated the effect of DGAVP on mood, alertness or sleepiness in a double-blind placebo-control design.
(7) It is the most preponderant finding among patients referred to diagnostic sleep laboratories, particularly among patients complaining of excessive daytime sleepiness.
(8) Before undergoing a polysomnographic examination, 123 patients filled in a questionnaire inquiring about fatigue and sleepiness while driving a vehicle as well as accidents during the past three years.
(9) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
(10) "The business department stopped being a sleepy backwater and became a great office of state," he said.
(11) The authors describe the clinical picture of a case with a peak-wave stupor in a 16 year-old patient where the main clinical expression of this disorder was behavioural sleepiness.
(12) Migration has turned a sleepy town with a population of 31,000 in 1872 into today's megacity of 21 million, the ninth-biggest city in the world and South America's wealthiest and most important economic hub.
(13) The results indicate that a moderate dose of ethanol significantly increases physiological sleepiness during early morning hours even in individuals that are relatively alert at these times.
(14) Anxiety trait (Spielberg State Anxiety Trait) did not correlate with sleepiness, but higher anxiety scores were significantly associated with poor performance.
(15) Feelings of sleepiness, lasting several hours after waking, were more common after thiopentone than after etomidate.
(16) However, the EEG scores strongly suggested that volunteers were more sleepy at 8 h after nitrazepam in comparison to placebo or midazolam.
(17) The late nap was more efficient in reducing sleepiness during the last 5 h of the experiments (23.00-04.00).
(18) When the effects of age and time of day were partialed out, PLR data suggest that increased sleepiness as measured by MSLT is significantly correlated with increased parasympathetic activity (r = -0.60, p less than 0.01) and not with decreased sympathetic activity (r = -0.24, not significant).
(19) REPEATABILITY: scores were high, ranging from 0.92 to 0.99, for all symptoms except flushing (all grades 0.91), nausea (all grades 0.90) and sleepiness (severe, 0.82) (method of Bulpitt et al).
(20) These were unrelated to such factors as age of delivery, percentage weight gain, the baby's sex or birth weight, alcohol consumption, smoking, a history of migraine or allergy or other symptoms occurring during pregnancy such as sleepiness and lack of concentration, irritability, loss of interest in job or nightmares.