(n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
(n.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
(n.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
(v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
(v. t.) To bleed by the use of leeches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leech saliva inhibits superoxide production by neutrophils stimulated by tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate or polyhistidine.
(2) We compared the molecular nature of the rat brain opiate receptor with that of the invertebrate leech, Haemopis marmorata, and the protozoan, Tetrahymena, in order to examine the issue of apparent receptor heterogeneity with respect to biochemical structure.
(3) Serotonin plays an obligatory role in the initiation and expression of leech feeding behavior by its differential modulation of central neuronal networks and peripheral glands and muscles.
(4) Leech-treated flaps showed poorer reperfusion than untreated flaps.
(5) Thus, even though normal leech development comprises a nearly invariant cell lineage, lineage relationships are open to considerable reorganization under experimental conditions.
(6) When I first saw the video I instantly recognised something about the voice,” Leech said.
(7) Touch (T) sensory neurons in the leech innervate defined regions of skin and synapse on other neurons, including other T cells, within the ganglionic neuropil.
(8) Sensory processing in the local bending reflex of the leech (Hirudo medicinalis) was studied by examining the input-output relations of the reflex.
(9) Blood meal size increases slightly with leech size: 8.4 g for 1-g leeches and 9.7 g for 2-g leeches.
(10) Leech AP neurons react to axotomy by increasing excitability and resting potential of the cell body membrane.
(11) Antistasin is a 119-amino acid protein initially isolated from salivary glands of the Mexican leech, Haementeria officinalis, that exhibits potent anticoagulant properties resulting from selective inhibition of blood coagulation factor Xa.
(12) Mark Leech, editor of ConVerse , the national newspaper for prisoners, said the former MP should expect "to find himself in a prison reception that is cramped, cold and busy – with up to 200 prisoners being processed each day".
(13) The use of leeches and blood letting of 100 years ago may seem absurd by today's standards.
(14) We were able to record large signals without averaging from barnacle and leech neurons.
(15) There are at least three hirudin transcripts detectable in leech RNAs that are different in size, site of synthesis, inducibility by starvation, and relationship to hirudin activity.
(16) A combined action of acetylcholine and serotonin is demonstrated to produce, in ultrastructure of the Retzius neuron of the leech, changes similar to those resulted from synaptic activation.
(17) The authors conclude that the use of medicinal leeches shows promise as a safe and effective method of providing temporary venous drainage in replanted digits.
(18) The possibility of leech endoparasitism should not be overlooked in people presenting with epistaxis or hemoptysis and a history of recent contact with fresh water lakes or streams in tropical regions.
(19) Individual mechanosensory neurons in the leech segmental ganglia were eliminated in vivo by intracellular Pronase injection.
(20) 3), was developed using the powerful musculature of the common leech (Haemopis sanguisuga).
Lice
Definition:
(n.) pl. of Louse.
(pl. ) of Louse
Example Sentences:
(1) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(2) Twelve days after the first treatment the second treatment was carried out and the presence of head lice was examined for the evaluation of treatment effect.
(3) Subjects were inspected for evidence of live lice and eggs at 24 hours and 3 to 4 weeks after application of treatment.
(4) Over 60 forms of parasites were found out as follows: three species of blood parasites, 12 species of Coccidia, 8 species of cestodes, 12 species of nematodes, one species of Acanthocephalus, three species of chigger mites, 15 species of gamasid mites, 6 species of ixodid ticks, fleas and lice.
(5) Each group was exposed to 6 sheep with moderate to heavy infestations of lice.
(6) As these subjects were free of live lice infestation at previous follow-up visits it was highly probable that these were cases of re-infestation from another source.
(7) After postcuing, subjects sometimes report lane or lice, instead of the requested word line.
(8) Mortality with control solutions varied between 4 and 16% for both lice and eggs.
(9) Boys with medium length hair and girls with short hair showed the highest incidence of lice infestation.
(10) While we know today that lice do not discriminate between clean and dirty hair, parents and professionals react very negatively to the condition, and this feeling is transferred to children as indicated by their drawings.
(11) In summary, head lice can be readily infected with R. prowazeki and disseminate virulent R. prowazeki organisms in their feces.
(12) Groups of sheep infested with strains of Bovicola (Damalinia) ovis were obtained from flocks either with a history of failure to control lice with synthetic pyrethroid (SP) pour-on insecticides, or from farms where SP compounds were not used.
(13) The results indicate that both products are effective in the treatment of head lice infection and that the phenothrin shampoo would be a useful addition to the insecticides currently employed.
(14) The host specificity of the group is reviewed, including features of the natural history of lice and their hosts that may have influenced the evolution of host-parasite associations.
(15) If a practical method of applying the insecticide to the tip of wool can be developed, then this technique should provide an effective means of eradicating lice in sheep with long wool.
(16) They included the analyses of two nursing cows and their two newborn pups, three 2-month-old pups, and the sucking lice inhabiting these animals, Antarctophthirus callorhini and Proechinophthirus fluctus.
(17) Evaluation of the intervention program revealed a significant success in reducing head lice infestation that was not influenced by variation in socioeconomic status or place of residence.
(18) Between Days 5 and 9, 13 head lice were dead or moribund and all of them were positive by IF for R. prowazeki.
(19) of whom 2 patients (16.7%) gave positive skin reactions to lice extracts.
(20) Living lice and eggs were found in 19% of 2643 children examined in Israel.