(v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.
(v.) The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.
(v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.
(v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.
(v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.
(v.) Weight or violence of blows.
(v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
(v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.
(v. t.) To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.
(v. t.) To magnetize.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(3) Spermine clearly activated 45Ca uptake by coupled mitochondria, but had no effect on Ca2+ egress from mitochondria previously loaded with 45Ca.
(4) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(5) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(6) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(8) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(9) Over the course of 26-40 h the Na- and water-loaded cells returned to a normal state of hydration as judged by their density.
(10) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
(11) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
(12) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
(13) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
(14) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
(15) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
(16) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
(17) 9 Women performed plantarflexion and dorsalflexion with maximum strength and at constant load of 60% MVC to exhaustion.
(18) In PSS amiloride and EIPA each had a small inhibitory effect on the pH recovery after an acid load.
(19) Also blacks differ from whites in 2 ways that could be relevant for their increased prevalence of hypertension: they excrete sodium loads more slowly and have a markedly lower urinary kallikrein.
(20) Calcium loading to erythrocytes in vitro caused a greater decrease in the membrane fluidity in essential hypertension than in the normotensive controls.
Unload
Definition:
(v. t.) To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.
(v. t.) Hence, to relieve from anything onerous.
(v. t.) To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
(v. t.) To draw the charge from; as, to unload a gun.
(v. t.) To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of.
(v. i.) To perform the act of unloading anything; as, let unload now.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that this human model of unloading could serve to simulate effects of microgravity on skeletal muscle mass and function because reductions in muscle mass and strength were of similar magnitude to those produced by bed rest.
(2) The number of motor units which produced either an 'unloading' or an 'off response' exceeded, on average, the number of motor units which excited the same tendon organ.
(3) Torque pulses (of 10 or 100 msec) injected randomly to load or unload the movements stretched or slackened the appropiate prime movers: biceps or triceps.
(4) We conclude that 1) prolonged infusion of ANF causes only transient increases in plasma cGMP levels but a sustained reduction of the cardiac release of ANF and that 2) the beneficial hemodynamic effects of ANF, that is, unloading of the ventricles, may be associated with or, in part, may be secondary to a shift of plasma constituents into the extravascular space.
(5) The first and last test were unloaded and the intervening tests were performed with external added resistances of 33, 57, and 73 cm H2O X l-1 X s in random order.
(6) These results suggested that depressed LV function in the patients with longstanding AS was largely related to limited preload reserve due to LV enlargement and mechanical unloading of LV (correction of afterload mismatch) resulted in improvement of LV function.
(7) We have documented that the profoundly depressed postcardiotomy left ventricle, initially incapable of ejection, can recover during total left ventricular unloading with the abdominal left ventricular assist device support over a seven-day period.
(8) Loading via substrate adhesion was found to be very effective in terms of each of these measurements in retaining the differentiated features of adult cardiocytes for up to 2 weeks in culture; unattached and thus unloaded cardiocytes quickly dedifferentiated.
(9) The cartilaginous potential of the perichondrium has earlier been utilized to reconstruct articular cartilage in unloaded joints in adult rabbits.
(10) We conclude that during the infusion of a pharmacologic dose of ANF the reflex forearm vasoconstriction in response to selective cardiopulmonary receptor unloading is potentiated.
(11) We find that these kinetics were slightly less sensitive to temperature than was the unloaded shortening speed.
(12) Loaded as well as unloaded implants can function as tooth root analogues in maintaining the volume of the edentulous ridge.
(13) Under study was the efficacy of heart unloading in different variants of asynchronous peripheral veno-arterial perfusion (VAP).
(14) On the day of transport, samples were collected at 0700 hours at location 1, immediately before and after transport in a trailer, after unloading at location 2, and at 1900 hours at location 2.
(15) However, the effect of insulin (1 and 10 nM) on bone glucose consumption and ATP content was not seen in the bone tissues with skeletal unloading.
(16) It is unlikely that any elevation in circulating glucocorticoids was solely responsible for atrophy of the soleus in this model, but catabolic amounts of glucocorticoids could alter the response of muscle to unloading.
(17) This new type of unloading effect, exerted by in-series motor units, was demonstrated by the fact that the simultaneous contraction of both units elicited less discharge from the receptor than the contraction of a single unit.
(18) The effects of low temperature on system asc2 suggest a preferential impairment of the mobility of the unloaded carrier relative to that of the loaded transporter.
(19) Stretch and unloading reflexes were demonstrated in the first dorsal interosseous muscle by averaging the electromyographic responses to brief mechanical stimuli.
(20) Experiments were performed to determine the influence of sarcomere length and passive tension on the velocity of unloaded shortening (Vu) as measured by the slack test technique.