(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).
Patient
Definition:
(a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
(a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
(a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
(a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
(a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
(n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
(n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
(v. t.) To compose, to calm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) In studies of calcium metabolism in 13 unselected patients with untreated sarcoidosis all were normocalcaemic but five had hypercalcuria.
(3) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(4) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(5) However, patients with GGBHS were significantly older (P less than .05).
(6) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(7) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(8) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(9) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(10) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(11) It was shown that delta F508 frequency of CF-patients was 59.2%, the frequencies of S5491, G551D and K533X were about 1%.
(12) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(13) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
(14) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(15) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(16) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(17) Seventy patients were randomised to Fm 40 mg at night and Rn placebo and 62 to Rn 300 mg at night and Fm placebo.
(18) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(19) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(20) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.