(n.) An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Post-operative symptoms are: dyspnoea during exercise, pain in the affected half of the chest and roentgeno-kymographically demonstrable restrictions of movement in the ruptured side of the diaphragm.
(2) The mechanograms were recorded by means of the balloon-kymographic method, the electromyograms-by silver macroelectrodes implanted in the muscle wall.
(3) The principle underlying the action of basic subassemblies of the appliance for registration of kymographic curves from roentgenocinemafilms is described.
(4) Kymographic measurements on guinea-pig ileum demonstrated an average elevation of the ACh content in the instilled ciliary bodies (0.48 microgram) against the controls (0.33 micron).
(5) Kymographic measurements of acetylcholine (ACh) in bovine retinal tissue carried out on guinea-pig ileum do not indicate a significant elevated concentration of ACh in the eye instilled with physostingmine salicylate (1% aqueous solution, 10 applications of three drops at intervals of 3 minutes).
(6) Tension changes were recorded by a pen recorder on smoked kymograph paper.
(7) A kymographic method allowed the measurement of walking parameters.
(8) A horizontal line of structural alteration in teeth can be used as a kymographic record of the causative metabolic disturbance and help pinpoint the active period of the disturbance.
(9) Twenty four hour activity of rats was recorded kymographically for a fifteen day period before enucleation and for a similar period after enucleation.
(10) Spontaneous colon motoricity was registered on the kymograph in the chamber with oxyzenized Krebs fluid, according to the Magnus method.
(11) These evoked tongue jerks (ETJ) were recorded directly on a kymograph or on a linear recorder.
(12) The heart size during systolic and diastolic contractions, stroke volume and contractile function were measured once a month, using an X-ray unit and a kymograph.
(13) Pressure of perfusion was recorded independently in maternal and fetal circulation using mercurial manometer and Ludwig kymograph++.
(14) Kymographic study of the diaphragm gave no further information and was less selective compared with the other tests of pulmonary function.
(15) Growth of deciduous tissues gives us a natural kymograph to record secular trends and in some instances makes the mark on the moving record.
(16) Since the kymographic sweep is initiated by the R wave of the ECG and proceeds continuously throughout the cardiac cycle, the temporal sequence of regional myocardial contraction can be directly assessed and related to corresponding portions of the ECG.
(17) A late follow-up study of the pulmonary function one to eight years after the trauma included x-ray films of the trachea and lungs, kymographic studies of the diaphragm, spirometric and radiospirometric testing, and arterial blood gas levels.
(18) On the background of Ludwig's scientific work, his attainments in the field of the development of new medical instruments and appliances--especially of the kymograph--are demonstrated.
(19) Of the aneurysms demonstrated by laevocardiography in the left ventricle (31), it was possible to show 22 (71%) kymographically.
(20) In 11 patients, the results were compared with those from kymographic recordings measuring patient restlessness (motility index).
Pen
Definition:
(n.) A feather.
(n.) A wing.
(n.) An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
(n.) Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
(n.) The internal shell of a squid.
(n.) A female swan.
(v. t.) To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
(n. & v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
(n.) A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(2) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
(3) Auranofin (AF), D-penicillamine (D-pen) and thiola are prescribed as disease-modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
(4) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(5) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(6) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(7) Left ventricular cavity and muscle areas of each image were planimetered with a light-pen system and summated for volume: total volume = sigma (areas x 3 mm).
(8) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
(9) The pullets were housed in battery brooder pens with raised wire floors.
(10) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
(11) There is a simple solution, formulated by English PEN, the Manifesto Club and the Earl of Clancarty, who raised the matter in the Lords earlier this year: remove short-term visits by non-EU artists from the PBS and expand the entertainer route, letting paid and unpaid artists qualify.
(12) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.
(13) With a stroke of his pen, he effectively declared the end of racism in America.
(14) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
(15) Harnessing its greatest asset – its authors – PEN is planning to publish an open letter to each of the five imprisoned writers every day this week, in the run up to the 33rd annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
(16) An area on top of a hill near to the spot where Sharon was laid to rest alongside his late wife, Lily, was penned off with crash barriers.
(17) Deaths, 40 on CAZ and 21 on AG+PEN, were mainly related to their underlying condition.
(18) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
(19) But Ukip is not the NF nor Trump, Nigel Farage is not Le Pen, father, daughter or niece Marion.
(20) I don’t think we should spend too long doing it.” Farage enjoyed support from the far-right French politician and Front National leader, Marine Le Pen , who spoke next.