(a.) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen.
(a.) Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes.
(a.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein.
(a.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares).
Example Sentences:
(1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(3) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(4) 137 internal jugular vein cannulae from 113 patients undergoing open heart surgery were cultured using standard broth culture and a semiquantitative culture technique.
(5) The right carotid artery was divided and bypassed with the reversed right external jugular vein 7 days later in these animals and in 13 normotensive controls.
(6) Glomus body tumors most frequently originate in the middle ear (tympanicum) or on the jugular bulb (jugulare).
(7) By comparison with normal jugular vein tracings, each interval was given three zones of value (normal, intermediate, pathological).
(8) Sensitivity of calcitonin gene-related peptide-like immunoreactivity (CGRP-LI) to capsaicin was investigated in different arterial and venous tissues (mesenteric, renal and femoral artery and vein and carotid artery and jugular vein) of the rat.
(9) Hormone concentrations were measured in jugular venous plasma.
(10) Eighteen pig fetuses were fitted with indwelling carotid artery and jugular vein catheters.
(11) Eight adult male rats were chronically cannulated in the jugular vein and placed individually in a sound-attenuated cubicle.
(12) Blood collection, carried out via a jugular cannula or caudal venipuncture, had no significant effect on cortisol level.
(13) Among 203 patients in whom the technique has been used, thrombosis of the subclavian or jugular vein has occurred in only three.
(14) Thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and alkaline phosphatase (AP) were assayed monthly in white-tailed deer plasma obtained from the antler (A), jugular (J), and the saphenous (S) veins during the period of antler growth and the period of mineralization.
(15) Autogenous jugular vein is favored for creation of the shunt.
(16) Thus, we provide strong evidence that our inability to generate a response to field stimulation in the rat jugular vein results from the lack of functional innervation in this tissue.
(17) We describe a method for obtaining blood volume information from the external jugular vein or carotid artery by means of an optical fibre transducer.
(18) Hormone levels were measured in frequent blood samples taken via an indwelling jugular cannula from sexually mature and castrated ferrets.
(19) Ninety two patients were admitted to the clinic after nonradical surgical interventions on the thyroid and jugular lymph apparatus.
(20) Jugulotympanic glomus tumours usually present in the middle ear either primarily or as a result of extension upwards from the jugular fossa.
Thorax
Definition:
(n.) The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
(n.) The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.
(n.) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.
(n.) A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(2) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(3) ELS (or accessory lungs) is a rare congenital abnormality defined as a lung segment outside a normal lung, usually localized in the left lower thorax.
(4) Respiratory failure, developing 7-9 days after inoculation, was associated with a decrease in lung-thorax compliance determined during artificial ventilation, and an increase in the amount of protein including the specific antibody in lung lavage fluid.
(5) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(6) Radiographs of the thorax were evaluated in 240 patients during the acute phase following a myocardial infarct.
(7) Their medical histories were consulted and further measures were taken such as a radiological thorax study, total IgE, TDI, MDI and HDI RAST, a basal spirometric study and finally a provocation test.
(8) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(9) In comparison with untreated controls from the same litters, there was a 4-7-fold enhancement of lung-thorax compliance in all groups of surfactant-treated animals during a 3-h period of artificial ventilation.
(10) The effect of manual percussion of the thorax in nine patients with stable chronic airflow obstruction and excessive tracheobronchial secretion has been studied.
(11) The lesion has occurred in many sites, but is commonest in the thorax (60%), abdomen (11%), neck (14%), and axilla (4%).
(12) The autonomous-visceral pathology observed in cases of cervical injuries can be attributed to the direct effect of the trauma upon the segmental innervation appratus of the heart, diaphragm, thorax.
(13) Patients with massive symptoms and signs indicating abdominal injury should receive high priority in the treatment of the multiple injury patient, second only to injuries to airways and thorax.
(14) Whole iic nerves of the rostral thorax (T2-T5) usually discharged during neural inspiration, whereas those of the caudal thorax (T7-T11) were primarily active during neural expiration.
(15) The following advantages must be pointed out in respect of using DLR in thoracic diagnosis in the intensive-care ward: No faulty exposures; the thorax can be x-rayed with the patient recumbent in bed, with lateral take: the image brightness in maintained at a constant level by histogram selection; electronic image processing and storage.
(16) Heart rate (HR), mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), cardiac output (CO), cardiac index (CI), systemic vascular resistance (SVR), and arteriovenous oxygen content difference (C[a-v]O2) were measured or calculated each time the surgeon's hand entered the thorax to dissect the esophagus.
(17) In both these cases of blunt injury to the thorax, careful examination of the patients resulted in early diagnosis and surgery.
(18) HRCT scans at the apex of the thorax in all nine patients scanned at this level showed that extrapleural fat with interspersed vessels accounted for most of the plain radiographic opacity.
(19) A radiograph of the thorax showed features of peribronchitis and infiltration in both lungs.
(20) The ultrasonic diagnosis as a method of recognising postoperative subprosthetical breast pathological changes (respectively of simulated tumor recidivs and implanted breast prosthesis) located near the thorax and therefore difficult to detect by external palpation and mammography examination have been described in a follow-up study, and further possibilities of application suggested.