(n.) A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line.
(n.) The quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean spread of sensory blockade with isobaric bupivacaine was 16.95 segments (T6).
(2) Model predictions based upon these data compare favorably with published reports of isobaric inert gas supersaturation, as well as several previously unpublished observations.
(3) The appearance of isobaric HPNS during the switch might be due to the disappearance of the narcotic substance which suppressed or masked the clinical symptoms; it might also be due to the sudden increase in the partial pressure of He, which was equivalent to a fast compression.
(4) These results suggest that pre-existing hypertension can be recognized as an important factor to explain blood pressures changes during isobaric bupivacaine spinal anesthesia in elderly patients.
(5) This paper is concerned with the theretical background and implications of isobaric supersaturation and bubble formation in the microcirculation following an abrupt shift from one inspired inert gas to another.
(6) We suggest the results can be explained on the basis of the time-varying elastance concept: systolic elastance is the same for isovolumic and isobaric beats but depends on contractility.
(7) The decrease in mean arterial pressure was significantly more severe in the hyperbaric (30%) than in either the isobaric (18%) or hypobaric (14%) groups.
(8) These ions, which are referred to as (B-16) ions, permit differentiation between the isobaric amino acids lysine and glutamine in peptide mass spectra.
(9) The upper margin of analgesic zone at 15min and 60min after the subarachnoid injection of bupivacaine was higher in the hyperbaric groups, but it receded thereafter and significant differences were found at 120min compared with the isobaric group.
(10) Sixteen animal exposures (8 dives, 2 animals per dive) to a sudden isobaric gas switch from saturation on N2 to He were conducted; 8 saturations occurred at 132 fsw and 8 at 198 fsw.
(11) Group 1 patients received 3 ml of 0.5% isobaric bupivacaine.
(12) The duration of analgesia and the cardiovascular changes during anesthesia of spinal blockade with isobaric bupivacaine were examined in 36 patients between 21 and 75 years old undergoing percutaneous nephro-ureterolithotomy.
(13) In addition 3 ml isobaric bupivacaine in doses of 7.5 mg (0.25%), 15 mg (0.5%) and 22.5 mg (0.75%).
(14) These further signals may be useful in differentiating peptides containing lysine from those containing the isobaric glutamine.
(15) Individual diameter- and compliance-pressure curves extrapolated from the measured diameter and mean pressure point with a logarithmic elastic model permitted calculation of isobaric diameter and compliance at the same pressure in each subject.
(16) At isobaric intervals, compliance did not differ between control and myopathic ventricles.
(17) Because of the absence of a defined zone of analgesia, the small volumes required and the "ready for use" preparation, intrathecal isobaric morphine therapy will lead to easy self-administration via an implanted pump in the future.
(18) However, by measuring arterial compliance at the same pressure, its isobaric values were found to be unchanged.
(19) The 9 former premature received 0.6 ml isobaric bupivacaine 0.5%, and the child born on term with diaphragmatic hernia 0.8 ml isobaric bupivacaine 0.5%.
(20) Overall, measured isobaric diameters and measured compliance correlated with systolic, diastolic, and mean blood pressure values (p less than 0.001), whereas isobaric compliance correlated only with systolic (p less than 0.05) and pulse (p less than 0.01) pressure values.
Isotherm
Definition:
(n.) A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time of observation, or the mean temperature for a year or other period. Also, a similar line based on the distribution of temperature in the ocean.
Example Sentences:
(1) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
(2) Scatchard analysis of the binding isotherms indicated a lower Bmax of the binding sites in the hypothalamus and hippocampus of 8 and 14 weeks old SHR rats.
(3) Preliminary heating patterns studied in phantoms indicate the possibility of treating volumes greater than 2000 cm3 within the 50 per cent isotherm.
(4) By using LIGAND computerized program, the saturation isotherm binding pattern indicates a single type of binding.
(5) Scatchard plots of saturation isotherm data were consistently linear and the mean Kd value determined from 10 such experiments was 0.72 nM in frontal cortex and 0.82 nM in lumbar spinal cord.
(6) q(i) is the fractional free solute space, C(RP) (i) the RP concentration, (max)C(c) (2) (i) the concentration of binding sites, and the function f is satisfied by the Langmuir isotherm.
(7) For highly nonlinear isotherms, the frontal elution method is preferred.
(8) The model assumes that MAb permeates into tumor unidirectionally from plasma across capillaries and clears from tumor by interstitial fluid flow and that interstitial antibody-antigen interactions are characterized by the Langmuir isotherm for reversible, saturable binding.
(9) The shape of the binding isotherms, as well as fluorescence energy transfer measurements, suggests that some aggregation of membrane-bound peptide monomers occurs in acidic but not in zwitterionic vesicles.
(10) 2.5% by weight at the plateau; and (4) a vertical initial slope of the isotherm.
(11) A portion of the upper organic layer is chromatographed for 5 min isothermally on a packed column (3% SP2250) with nitrogen-phosphorus detection.
(12) The thermographs showed a pattern of ellipsoidal isotherms (major axis horizontal) approximately concentric about a temperature apex (coldest point) which was slightly inferior to the geometric center of the cornea (GCC).
(13) It is important, therefore, to recognize the temperature- and time-dependence of the structure of starch materials, if non-isothermal techniques are used for their characterization.
(14) The isothermal isorheological line and isothermal superelevation are described.
(15) The sequence of phase transformations during isothermal aging below the critical temperature, Tc = 825 K, was described as follows: disordered solid solution alpha 0 (FCC)----metastable AuCu I' ordered phase (FCT)----metastable alpha 2 disordered phase (FCC) equilibrium AuCu I ordered phase (FCT) + equilibrium alpha 2 disordered phase (FCC).
(16) This product shows an Arrhenius line fit for the stability of its activity when tested at multiple isothermal temperatures (25-80 degrees C).
(17) Displacement isotherms for amidephrine, benoxathian, oxymetazoline, phentolamine and WB 4101 were biphasic and were consistent with the presence of both alpha 1A- and alpha 1B-adrenoceptor subtypes as described by Morrow & Creese (1986) and Han et al.
(18) The real equilibrium values obtained by using the complete time-concentration model of adsorption were fitted according to the respective adsorption isotherms by non-linear regression.
(19) Binding isotherms were constructed for the binding of synthetic tetrapeptide and pentapeptide fragments to membranes prepared from chicken cerebellar tissue.
(20) The physicochemical solution properties of the galactoglucan excreted by Rhizobium meliloti strain YE-2(S1) have been investigated by capillary viscometry, potentiometric titration, isothermal mixing microcalorimetry, and circular dichroism.