(a.) Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.
(a.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.
(n.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.
(a.) Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the remaining 77% (296 cases) 94.5% were referred for extracorporeal lithotrity with shock waves, of which 89.8 were monotherapy and 4.7% a combination with other strategies (medico-lithic, surgical, endoscopic extrusion).
(2) The F complex contains Upper Paleolithic lithic elements, and the new hominid specimen from this complex appears to exhibit features similar to other early modern H. sapiens in southcentral Europe.
(3) We evaluated the serum osteocalcin and alkaline phosphatase levels and the urinary hydroxyproline excretion in patients with blastic, lithic or mixed metastases, humoral malignant hypercalcemia (HMH) and myeloma.
(4) The authors present their case where the metastasis imitated acute lithic obstruction.
(5) Eight of the specimens (seven cranial fragments and one complete hand proximal phalanx) were excavated from level G3, a stratum correlated to the Lower Würm stadial and containing Mousterian lithic elements.
(6) In addition, our results suggest that the Howiesons Poort lithic industry (approximately 45-75 kyr) and the MSA-LSA transition (approximately 35 kyr) are younger than often believed.
(7) Analysis of series of 64 instances of MU in 55 patients leads the authors to the following conclusions: --MU is fairly rare in adults since it is usually discovered at an earlier age; --adult MU shows little activity, even when it is complicated by lithiasis; --renal involvement frequently bears no strict relationship to the magnitude of the MU and is not always obviously improved by surgery; --surgical treatment of MU (anti-reflux ureterovesical reimplantation, with or without ureteral modelling) gives reliable results (14 successes, 2 failures, and 1 patient lost to follow up), comparable to those obtained in children); --the main operating indications consist of: infection, associated urinary, youth, and the possibility of pregnancy; --the problem of associated lithiasis must be dealt with before or during surgical treatment of MU, never after, because of the risk of postoperative lithic migration.
(8) The associated lithic artifacts recovered with it are Mousterian.
(9) Insufficient populations of Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter were found in a Pahokee muck soil (Lithic medidaprit) to account for the nitrate concentration observed.
(10) The cave also yielded Mousterian lithic industry and fauna indicating a paleoclimate condition with dry-warm tendency and savannah landscape.
Lithium
Definition:
(n.) A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(2) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
(3) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(4) Furthermore, recent investigations into the pharmacokinetics of lithium salts are dealt with.
(5) This suggested that some of the cell population became metabolically inactive at a very early stage, possibly owing to suboptimal conditions of growth.Glycine, lysozyme and lithium chloride initiated lysis of BCG growth in the aforementioned media 24-48 hours after inoculation.
(6) The ability of myo-inositol to reverse behavioral effects of lithium was tested using chronic inositol administration or acute intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
(7) Patients were examined before and 12 days after the beginning of lithium treatment.
(8) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
(9) This documents the inhibitory role which lithium can play in several examples of animal aggressive behavior including pain-elicited aggression, mouse killing in rats, isolation-induced aggression in mice, p-chlorophenylalanine-induced aggression in rats, and hypothalamically induced aggression in cats.
(10) Thirty-six investigations were made using a number of lithium fluoride micro-rods for each investigation.
(11) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
(12) Although GTP most potently inhibited [125I]beta h-endorphin binding in the presence of sodium, inhibition of [125I]beta h-endorphin binding by GTP was also observed in the presence of the monovalent cations lithium and potassium, but not the divalent cations magnesium, calcium, or manganese.
(13) It was observed that the circadian rhythm was disrupted by injections of lithium at the beginning of the light as well as the dark phase of the LD cycle.
(14) The comparative usefulness of carbamazepine and lithium carbonate in the acute and prophylactic management of DSM-III diagnosed major affective, schizoaffective, or schizophreniform psychoses was investigated in a 3-year, prospective double-blind randomized trial with 83 in- and outpatients.
(15) While continuing to receive antidepressant medication after the 21 day period, four of the patients then received lithium carbonate, and three received placebo.
(16) The decomposition of nitrosourea is facilitated when a proton or lithium ion is positioned at the oxygen of the nitroso group.
(17) A 51-year-old manic woman who developed acute severe lithium intoxication with neurotoxicity and nephrotoxicity during rapid abatement of manic episode was reported.
(18) The authors expressed in 1984 the assumption that lithium is the drug of the phenomenon of suicidal action in affective disorders.
(19) 20 female manic-depressive out-patients who had been treated with lithium over a long period (average time = 4.3 years), were submitted to a psychoanalytic interview and a personality test (FPI).
(20) The latter compounds were reduced with lithium aluminium hydride to the respective amines (II a-c) and then N-alkylated by reaction with 2-propynyl-, 2-butynyl- or 2,3-butadienyl bromides to the corresponding amines (III a-j).