(n.) A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enhancer sequences analysed using the informational spectrum method (ISM) show a characteristic frequency at .0488.
(2) Today, Britain is broke and broken, everyone's on the scam and excessive right on-ism is forcing ordinary Britons into retreat.
(3) "The ISM noted that some of the recent strength is due to the effects of the accelerated investment depreciation tax allowance, which expired at the end of last year.
(4) A single application of ouabain (10 microM) to CA3 by local pressure ejection caused a slow rise in local [K+]o measured with K-ISMs.
(5) In conclusion, a single oral dose of 60 mg of sustained-release ISM-R seems to be an effective drug in the treatment of effort angina, its effectiveness lasting more than 10 hours without side effects.
(6) A retrospective autopsy study of 627 patients with systemic cancer disclosed 153 patients with metastasis to the central nervous system (CNS) and 13 patients with intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISM).
(7) The purpose of these studies was to examine metastatic potentials of a human colon tumor xenograft (T6) and three different human tumor cell lines (LS174T, HT29 and A549) using the intrasplenic-nude mouse model system (ISMS model system).
(8) Both the ISM and Markit found that factory growth picked up last month.
(9) Of 104 patients, 10 developed ISM, with a 1-year actuarial risk of 25%.
(10) The case described suggests that this method of radiologic investigation can provide a prompt identification of ISM from other noncompressive complications of systemic cancers.
(11) One system that has proven to be very amenable for the study of PCD is the intersegmental muscle (ISM) of the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta.
(12) This paper reports a study of the recall and precision of the source selection elements in the prototype version of the ISM.
(13) Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISM) is an unusual cause of myelopathy, in comparison to the common problem of extramedullary metastasis.
(14) In the superfusate at 20 microns above the inner limiting membrane (ILM), current-evoked delta[K+] was a function of current polarity and strength; its amplitude decreased as the K-ISM was moved higher above the ILM.
(15) The Irish term for this is 'mé féin-ism', or 'myself-ism', a play on Sinn Féin, or 'we ourselves'.
(16) This is very important for radiation treatment which can be effective in the early stages of ISM.
(17) One of the upregulated presumptive cell-death genes encodes polyubiquitin, which appears to play a critical role in the rapid proteolysis that accompanies ISM death.
(18) Dietrologia” – which translates, roughly, to “behind-ism” – refers to the belief that the official explanation for any set of events is almost invariably the wrong one.
(19) This ISM-based technique also may be useful in measuring K+ turnover in other cell types.
(20) When patients with ISM are diagnosed premorbidly, they usually have a previously known or concurrently diagnosable primary neoplasm.
Mumps
Definition:
(n.) Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
(n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Besides various skin tests with the antigens candida, trichophyton, mumps, streptokinase-streptodornase, tuberculin, DNCB and KLH also in vitro experiments measuring the immunoglobulin- and complement concentrations, the antibody production to KLH, the lymphocyte transformation rate to PHA, Pokeweed, Con A, PPD were done nearly in all patients.
(2) Fifteen apparently normal patients who had been cured of cryptococcosis were found, as a group, to have impaired responsiveness to skin testing with cryptococcin and mumps, minimal leukocyte migration inhibition when stimulated with cryptococcin or C. neoformans, but normal group responses to cryptococcin in Cryptococcus-induced lymphocyte transformation.
(3) This is the first case of a fulminant phase of mumps ventriculitis leading to aqueductal stenosis, which has been treated using a ventriculoscope for the first time.
(4) The antibody response to the measles component was marginally better in the older group, but no differences were observed in the response to the mumps and rubella components.
(5) MUMPS has an impressive data storage capability and handling when used in a personal computer (PC) network.
(6) In the group with a past history of mumps orchitis these parameters did not show any difference when compared with controls.
(7) Sensitization to avian and other animal proteins and antibiotics which may follow the use of most of the currently available measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, either single or combined, may be expected to be eliminated when this new vaccine is used.
(8) In the 3-5 year-old group, rural environment, low socioeconomic status, no school attendance and lack of brothers were associated with statistically lower levels of measles, rubella, or mumps infection.
(9) Measles infection prevalence was significantly higher than that for rubella and mumps from 3 (48.3%, 14.2%, 25.5%, respectively) through 7 years of age, (64%, 40.9%, 39%).
(10) Series reporting exclusively disease due to mumps and LCM have a higher frequency of hypoglycorrhachia.
(11) Recruitment who were born after 1969 lacked measles, mumps, and rubella antibodies more often than older recruits.
(12) Spontaneous production of mumps ELISA antibodies in lymphocyte culture increased after vaccination and substantially higher levels of antibodies were produced when lymphocytes were stimulated with mumps virus after vaccination.
(13) No significant differences between the two groups were found for any of the three methods used to estimate previous exposure to mumps virus.
(14) Significant increased risks were associated with a history of herpes zoster infection (odds ratio (OR): 2.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1-4.9), chicken-pox (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.2-4.1) and mumps (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.1-3.8).
(15) This assumes that vaccine would be administered only once with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, that there would be no increase in the number of varicella cases in older persons who are at increased risk for complications, and that there would be no deleterious effect on the occurrence and severity of herpes zoster.
(16) The infection with measles and mumps viruses induced the release of interleukin-1 (IL-1) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) by the cell line as assessed by a bioassay and up-regulated the expression of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class I and class II antigens as evaluated by cytofluorimetric analysis.
(17) It was showed that there was a mumps outbreak in large area of Hubei in 1987.
(18) Infection control problems caused by mumps were reported from 17 (12%) of 146 hospitals.
(19) Sixty-four patients undergoing elective surgery (indications: 35 with aneurysms, 27 with aortoiliac disease, and two with renovascular disease) and nine patients undergoing emergency operation (indications: two with ruptured aneurysms, seven with aortoenteric fistulas) were skin tested when admitted to the hospital with five ubiquitous antigens (Candida, mumps, tuberculin, Trichophyton, and streptokinase-streptodornase [Varidase]) and read at 24 and 48 hours.
(20) 1) We report 5 cases of aseptic meningitis following vaccination against mumps.