(n.) A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage.
(n.) A thread or wire used to remove tumors, etc.
(n.) The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint.
(n.) Impotence caused by magic or charms.
(n.) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
(n.) A double character, or a type consisting of two or more letters or characters united, as ae, /, /.
(v. t.) To ligate; to tie.
Example Sentences:
(1) This proved that all four fistulas were acquired and that they were probably caused by the catgut ligatures used for ampullary ligation.
(2) With CCK specific antisera (directed to the N-terminal portion of CCK-8 or the midportion of CCK-33) accumulation of peptide-like immunoreactivity (LI) was observed in large, dilated axonal swellings proximal to, but at some distance from, the ligature.
(3) The CF from beagle dogs was collected from gingivitis and active periodontitis (ligature-induced) sites.
(4) After performing the ligature the animals were administered 3H-thymidine, 3H-proline or 35S-sulphate at different times.
(5) A local resection of the liver was performed and the intrahepatic bile duct fistula closed by a ligature.
(6) For correction of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage into the azygos vein with this technique, ligature of the azygos vein must be placed distally to the site of anomalous drainage.
(7) 1 A method for stimulating the lumbar sympathetic outflow from the spinal cord of the rat is described which does not require artificial respiration of the animal.2 In some, but not all experiments continuous stimulation at 2 Hz or intermittently at 10 Hz accelerated the rate at which noradrenaline and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase accumulated central to a ligature on the sciatic nerve by approximately 40%.3 It is concluded that, although nervous activity is not necessary for axonal transport of transmitter granules in sympathetic neurones, intense nervous activity may accelerate the rate of granule transport.
(8) Retrograde transport was examined by allowing orthogradely transported materials to reverse at the regenerating region and then to accumulate at a ligature during a second incubation period.
(9) In the ligature strangulation, the reactions of histamine exclusively demonstrated in the Weibel-Palade bodies of the splenic central arterial endothelial cells.
(10) The authors have gained minimum blood losses when suturing with provisional catgut ligature through the urinary bladder bottom between interureteral fold and internal urethral orifice yet before dessection of adenoma surgical capsule and tumor enucleation.
(11) A larger group who underwent abdominal hysterectomy allowed comparison between MFC on the bladder muscularis and conventional suture ligature in terms of blood loss, operating time success of method used, and complications.
(12) These results suggest that the increased responsiveness to norepinephrine of arteries proximal to the ligature is due to changes in muscle mass and that the increased responsiveness of the veins is due to increased sensitivity to norepinephrine.
(13) The preoperatory treatment is associated: blocking of adrenergic alpha-receptors and beta-receptors; correction of hypovolemia, also applied during the surgical phase I (until the venous ligature is made and the tumor excised) under continuous monitoring (ECG, ABP and central venous pressure).
(14) Venous ligature was performed in five with good effect in two.
(15) Electron-optic investigation revealed mitochondrial alterations 30 minutes after ligature of the pulmonary veins and 2 hours after that of the pulmonary arteries.
(16) After rhizotomia (Dandys method) 3 patients died, one of them because of a meningitis, one of them because of damage of the superior petrosal vein and one after ligature of an irregular auditive artery.
(17) According to maturity stage of the newborn and to the time period between removal of the cervical ligature and delivery we judged the effectiveness and the necessity of Shirodkar operation in the different patient groups.
(18) Six monkeys had significant drops in alveolar bone mass 14 days after the the application of a silk ligature around the gingival margin of an adjacent tooth.
(19) The authors studied the development of collateral circulation between the thoracic duct and the azygous vein system, in 30 adult dogs, after thoracic duct ligature.
(20) Ligature of the rat bile duct induces a large and selective increase of the IgA level in serum.
Mouthpiece
Definition:
(n.) The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.
(n.) An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.
(n.) One who delivers the opinion of others or of another; a spokesman; as, the mouthpiece of his party.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single trained subject sat in a body plethysmograph to measure ventilation and breathed at a constant rate of 15 per minute at three different tidal volumes, of approximately 0.3, 0.6, and 1.2 litres, from the mouthpiece in the plethysmograph.
(2) We modified the second stage (mouthpiece) of a standard scuba regulator to permit intermittent positive pressure ventilation using either a mask or an esophageal obturator airway.
(3) The Communist party mouthpiece newspaper the People’s Daily said in an editorial that the tribunal had ignored “basic truths” and “tramped” on international laws and norms.
(4) Unions, activists and artists held a rally on Tuesday, to protest the possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to the Koch brothers, warning that such a sale would turn one of the US's great newspapers into a right-wing mouthpiece.
(5) "Rather than being a political mouthpiece I wanted to focus on the readers," he revealed in his witness statement to the Leveson inquiry into press standards and ethics.
(6) An automated colorimetric method is described for the measurement of certain catecholamine drugs, such as isoproterenol and epinephrine, in sample solutions derived from 2 metered doses delivered from the mouthpiece of aerosol inhalation units.
(7) At age 17, ventilatory insufficiency developed and the patient was provided with a positive pressure device (mouthpiece) to augment his ventilation.
(8) An editorial today in the party mouthpiece, Saamna magazine, called for a ban on burqas, very rarely seen in India.
(9) A noseclip and low resistance mouthpiece are often used to monitor exhaled gases during exercise.
(10) We do not claim an inch of land that does not belong to us, but we won’t give up any patch that is ours,” the newspaper said , adding: “China, of course, will not accept such downright political provocations.” The China Daily, Beijing’s English-language mouthpiece, claimed the “outrageously one-sided ruling” meant military confrontation in the region had become more likely.
(11) When a mouthpiece was used, VE and breathing patterns were significantly altered during all activities such that VE, VT, and TT increased by 16, 34, and 20%, respectively.
(12) Even the HMC , mouthpiece of the independent sector, is reported to have spoken out against a "knee-jerk return to the nostalgic golden age of O-levels".
(13) Subjects were studied either without (A) or with mouthpiece and nose clip (B).
(14) They measured WOB while normal subjects breathed through a low-resistane mouthpiece.
(15) The "Lifeway" is a device for rescue breathing consisting of a mouthpiece for the rescuer, a non-rebreathing valve, a mouth-sealing cap and a glosso-palatinal tube (GPT) reaching into the patient's mouth.
(16) Measurement of airway pressure is essential in the study of respiratory mechanics, and is usually done via a lateral tap in the conduit (e.g., endotracheal tube, cannula, or mouthpiece) leading into the subject's airway.
(17) Exposures to filtered air, 0.60 ppm NO2, 0.30 ppm O3, and 0.60 ppm NO2 plus 0.30 ppm O3 were randomly delivered via an obligatory mouthpiece inhalation system.
(18) But it is Twitter's function as (for want of a better term) the mouthpiece of the masses that is perhaps most interesting.
(19) I gaze, bemused and, yes, fascinated, at curious anthropological artefacts such as Bride Wars or He's Just Not That Into You or Confessions of a Shopaholic, in which Kate Hudson or Ginnifer Goodwin or Isla Fisher play characters who might almost belong to a third gender, a bubble-headed one that emits ear-splitting shrieks, teeters constantly on the verge of hysteria and acts as an indiscriminate mouthpiece for the placement of overpriced tat.
(20) Use of a mouthpiece did not affect the degree of variability.