(adv.) Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air flow is determined by the differential pressure principle, CO2 measurement is by the infra-red technique and O2 analyser is of the paramagnetic type.
(2) Carbon dioxide lasers emit infra-red radiation at a wavelength of 10600 nm, making them suitable for tissue vaporisation, incision and vessel coagulation.
(3) 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.
(4) The chance of detecting splenic and hepatic involvement was definitely higher in patients with nodal disease above and below the diaphragm in comparison with those with either supra-diaphragmatic or infra-diaphragmatic adenopathy.
(5) Ultra-violet and infra-red rays are inactive on the autonomic retina and on the hypothalamus.
(6) The hydration of the main-chain carbonyl (CO) groups in proteins have been studied using infra-red spectroscopy, and computer-graphics analysis of high resolution protein crystal structures.
(7) An infra-umbilical entry into the peritoneal cavity through a small incision, without anesthesia, for the identification and cannulation of an umbilical artery was employed for monitoring and therapy in five prematurely born neonates.
(8) This persisted for 1-4 minutes and then progressively subsided passing through a period of 3:2 intra- infra-hisian AV block until it reached 1:1 conduction with transient left bundle branch block.
(9) Volatile degradation products were isolated from a solution of L-dehydroascorbic acid in phosphate buffer solution of pH 2,4,6 and 8 heated under reflux for 3 h or left at 25 degrees C for 200 h. The products were identified by comparison of their gas chromatographic retention data, infra-red and mass spectra with those of authentic compounds.
(10) They were concentrated in the infra- and supra-nuclear cytoplasm.
(11) These results show that the attachment of polynuclear moieties in estradiol 17 alpha-, 4- and 16 alpha-, positions gives rise to compounds which are of potential utility in a new non-radioisotopic receptor assay since the metal-carbonyl markers are readily detected by high-sensitivity Fourier-transform infra-red spectroscopy.
(12) An infra-red photoelectric device monitors the horizontal component of eye movement.
(13) The lack of chemical concordance between the synthetic products and the haptens has prompted a re-examination of these structures utilizing the instrumental techniques not previously available of fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry, Fourier transform infra-red, and high resolution NMR spectroscopy.
(14) The decreased height of the alveolar bone level at the site of the infra-occluded primary molar has been reported to normalize after the eruption of the permanent successor.
(15) The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of low-energy infra-red laser treatment on wound healing in rats, both histologically as well as by gross observation.
(16) Although the tumour was detected in the periphery and appeared to extend centrally, extensive surgery suggested that the tumour had its origins in the infra-temporal fossa.
(17) Two types of paralysis could be distinguished, an upper one affecting both the infra- and the supraspinatus muscles (12 patients), and a lower one involving only the infraspinatus muscle (4 patients).
(18) Parinaud's syndromes may occur in infra- and supratentorial space-occupying lesions, but very careful differential diagnosis must be made in those cases.
(19) The carbon monoxide compound of cytochrome o also has absorbance bands in the near infra-red, and these may be attributable to a low-spin ferrous haem compound.
(20) On the other hand, repolarization worsened whenever an impairment of infra or intrahisian conduction occurred.
Supra
Definition:
(adv.) Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differences regarding subfraction patterns of the gamma-globulin region seemed to be influenced of whether supra- or infratentorial structures were affected.
(2) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
(3) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
(4) These two types of supra-ependymal structures seem to contain 5-hydroxytryptamine.
(5) Brain tumors of supra- and subtontorial localization were detected.
(6) Some cell processes were present on the AP surface, but no supra-ependymal cell bodies could be seen over the AP proper.
(7) When patients had recovered from the spinal shock phase, emptying of the bladder supplemented by alpha-adrenergic blocking preparations and clean intermittent catheterization were instituted in the patients with supra-sacral lesions.
(8) With age there is a progressive deterioration in the capsulo-tendinous cuff of the shoulder: When rotator cuff lesions are limited (in general to the supra-spinatus), the cuff remains continent and functional, thereby ensuring good centering of the humeral head.
(9) Post-Gd images were equivalent to pre-Gd images in the evaluation of supra- and infrasellar extensions of macroadenomas.
(10) Since the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed in 1987 by Philippe Mouret in Lyon (France), there has been a real revolution in the field of visceral surgery: more and more operations are performed by this mini-invasive surgical method: lithiasis of the common bile duct, Nissen and Heller procedure, truncal vagotomies, abdominal and thoracic, supra-selective vagotomies, hernia, appendectomy, band sections during intestinal occlusion, resection of the colon and rectum, oesophagectomies ...
(11) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
(12) This is shown by serial reconstruction analysis of the largest diameter of synapses from maximal arc and chord length measurements at the subpial and supra Purkinje level.
(13) Loudness scaling is suggested as a method of eliciting supra-threshold measurements which might be helpful in the fitting of hearing aids.
(14) From March, 1976 to February, 1979, 28 cases of adult acute leukemia of which 24 were evaluable were treated in irreversible relapse with high dose chemotherapy (piperazinedione) and supra-lethal total body irradiation (TBI) in conjunction with autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT).
(15) It may also be interesting to elucidate supra-pontine structures which activate the identified brainstem-spinal cord inhibitory system.
(16) The chance of detecting splenic and hepatic involvement was definitely higher in patients with nodal disease above and below the diaphragm in comparison with those with either supra-diaphragmatic or infra-diaphragmatic adenopathy.
(17) The indications included a disease of the sinus node (8 cases), supra-ventricular arrhythmias associated to conduction disorders (3 cases) and a cardiomyopathy with conduction disorders (1 case).
(18) A right ventricular artificial demand pacemaker was implanted into a 59-year-old man with supra-Hisian complete heart block.
(19) Surgery for vertebral-basilar insufficiency comprises only 5.2% of all 1422 supra-aortic reconstructions performed during this period.
(20) Many clinical types can be distinguished among the post-phlebitis varicose veins : Substitution varicose veins : pre and supra pubic varicose veins that should be left intact-superficial post-phlebitis venous insufficiency which is characterized by a saphenous insufficiency that is not significantly different as a whole in its physiopathology from the essential saphenous insufficiency, and requires therefore the same forms of therapy.