(1) This is a report of changes in reflex excitability of flexor motoneurons in response to innocuous mechanical stimuli following initiation of an acute experimental inflammation of the knee joint in the chloralose-anaesthetized cat spinalized at level T12.
(2) Thus the innocuousness and ubiquitous availability of dextromethorphan render it attractive for worldwide pharmacogenetic investigations in man.
(3) For the many students who amble past it every day, it’s easily missed; placed rather innocuously next to the bridge that joins Scholar’s Piece to the rest of the college.
(4) Although often innocuous initially, human and animal bites can cause serious local and systemic infections as well as other complications.
(5) Phototherapy innocuousness, largely demonstrated, fosters its profilactic use at beginning and not only for those babies with serum bilirrubin over 10 mg % in the first day of life.
(6) One common element in these other nonequilibrium procedures is that, before the temperature has dropped to a level that permits intracellular ice formation, the embryo water content is reduced to the point at which the subsequent rapid nonequilibrium cooling results in either the formation of small innocuous intracellular ice crystals or the conversion of the intracellular solution into a glass.
(7) Stimuli used to activate the cells orthodromically were graded innocuous and noxious mechanical stimuli, including sinusoidal vibration and thermal pulses.
(8) Sodium butyrate appears to have properties of a good chemotherapeutic agent for neuroblastoma tumors because the treatment of neuroblastoma cells in culture causes cell death and "differentiation"; however, it is either innocuous or produces reversible morphological and biochemical alterations in other cell types.
(9) Taking into account that CT Scan is innocuous, the proposed method of sedation must be devoid of any risk.
(10) Mohan also said it amounted to an "innocuous British institution", a phrase that inadvertently emphasised its anachronistic nature.
(11) It is important, then, to prescribe oral contraception for its efficacy and its short- and long-term innocuousness.
(12) But it's outside the comfort zone of the more uncontroversial forms of predistribution, and shows that the politics of predistribution cannot be an innocuous or uncontroversial.
(13) Ultrasonography is the most innocuous and noninvasive procedure, ideally suited for screening patients suspected of having cerebrovascular insufficiency.
(14) CT is the most innocuous diagnostic procedure which obtains a maximum of data on the portal system morphology.
(15) TNB makes it possible to avoid surgery and mediastinoscopy in patients with unresectable malignant neoplasms and in many patients with innocuous benign mediastinal lesions.
(16) The metalloporphyrins, however, are not innocuous and cause major disruptions in cellular metabolism.
(17) Effects on attentional, motivational, and motoric aspects of the monkeys' behavior were assessed by having them detect innocuous cooling and visual stimuli in tasks of similar difficulty.
(18) Inasmuch as nicotine, vitamin D or dietary cholesterol in the amounts used were innocuous when used alone, the interactions between the effects of at least these three factors need to be known in individual animals before the pathogenesis of the calcific atheroarteriosclerotic lesions with thrombosis can eventually be understood.
(19) A few cells (n = 4) were weakly excited in these 4 nuclei; none responded to innocuous mechanical stimulation of the skin.
(20) Excessive proliferation of the peripelvic fat of the kidney (EPPF) is a benign process with an innocuous effect on the patient.
Innoxious
Definition:
(a.) Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless.
(a.) Free from crime; pure; innocent.
Example Sentences:
(1) One may speculate whether clinical conditions exist--apart from hereditary retinal dystrophies--in which the retina becomes more sensitive to light from strong artificial or natural sources, which are otherwise innoxious.
(2) All neurons responsive to only innoxious stimuli responded to neither bradykinin nor capsaicin.
(3) Heavy metals administered to animals, at doses which appear relatively innoxious by themselves, enhance susceptibility to endotoxin.
(4) Of 34 neurons responsive to both noxious and innoxious stimuli, 20 were responsive to both bradykinin and capsaicin, and 7 were responsive to only capsaicin.
(5) Presently, it is not possible to draw a conclusion on the noxious or innoxious influence of the involuntary exposure of pregnant women to environmental tobacco smoke, particularly as far as potential risks for foetus are concerned.
(6) Another method is the so called loading test, aimed at observing the personal reaction to innoxious doses of medicines or toxicants.
(7) The data on the modification of vocalization and movement reactivity as well as on the changes of suprarenal weight and gastric ulceration, produced in normal and naloxone-treated rats by innoxious stressogenic, noxious somatic and visceral stimulation are discussed in relation with: 1. the peculiarities of sensitivity and responsivity of animals to external stimuli in aversive environment; 2. the role of these changes in maintenance of an animal's adaptive activity produced by environmental threat and their mediation by endogenous opioids; 3. the functional significance of the activation of endogenous opioidergic neurotransmission in organization, realization and modification of an animal's adaptive activity, directed on behavioral escape from aversive environment as well as on satisfaction of actual biological and zoosocial needs, in regulation of precise conformity among homeostasis, behavior and variable environment.
(8) Innoxious mechanical stimulations to the forehead or cheek caused a reflex decrease of nerve activity, while noxious mechanical stimulations to the forehead or cheek caused a reflex increase in activity.