(n.) An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.
Example Sentences:
(1) After immobilization the sensitivity of the lumbrical decreased, whereas that of the diaphragm did not change.
(2) At operation was found a fibrous adherence of the third lumbrical at the sheath of the flexor digitorum profundus.
(3) Motoneurone death at the spinal cord level supplying the lumbricals was assessed by counting axons in the 4th lumbar ventral root.
(4) A case of carpal tunnel syndrome is presented in which an abnormally high origin of a lumbrical muscle seemed to be the cause.
(5) Three cases of manual workers suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome caused by a hypertrophied lumbrical muscle are presented.
(6) Single twitch fibres from lumbrical muscles of Xenopus have been loaded with the photolysable calcium-chelator diazo-2 by incubation in Ringer solution containing the membrane permeable acetoxymethyl ester (AM) form of diazo-2.
(7) By contraction a lumbrical muscle adds a small but significant flexor force at the metacarpophalangeal joint, and thereby it is also capable of contributing to radial deviation and possibly rotation.
(8) The severity of the symptoms was graded and the patients were studied with seven established EMG procedures, motor inching to the abductor pollicis brevis and second lumbrical muscles, and sensory inching.
(9) Motor inching to the second lumbrical muscle alone detected the lesion site in several severely involved nerves.
(10) This paper reports the results of a serial-section electron microscopic study of the IVth lumbrical muscle of the rat hindlimb, studied on embryonic day 20 (E20), a time when all secondary myotubes are less than 24 h old, and new ones are rapidly forming.
(11) The process of neuromuscular synapse elimination has been studied in the fourth deep lumbrical (4DL) muscle of the rat, a preparation which offers technical advantages for some types of experimental work.
(12) The indication and technique of these operations in case of paralysis of the opponens, interosseal-lumbrical muscles and of the extensors of the hand are described in details.
(13) The generation and development of muscle cells in the IVth hindlimb lumbrical muscle of the rat was studied following total or partial denervation.
(14) Intracellular Cl- activity (aiCl) was measured with Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes in normal and denervated rat lumbrical muscle.
(15) Single muscle fibres were dissected from Xenopus lumbrical muscles and microinjected with the photoprotein aequorin in order to measure the myoplasmic free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i).
(16) In the literature there are few precise descriptions of the mechanism of irritation of the nerve, either by the bursae between the metatarsal heads, by the deep intermetatarsal ligament, or by the tendons of the lumbrical muscles which are close to the nerve.
(17) After constructing length-tension curves of the profundus muscle in four fresh cadavers prior to the onset of rigor mortis, the interaction of realistic lumbrical loads with profundus elastic tension was studied.
(18) The device can be inserted with the aid of tendon-tunneling forceps and sutured to the profundus tendon at the origin of the lumbrical muscle.
(19) The three-dimensional structure of the transverse-axial tubular system, sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and mitochondria in the extracapsular region of the intrafusal muscle fibers of the rat lumbrical muscle was observed by ultra-high-resolution scanning electron microscopy after removal of the cytoplasmic matrix by the osmium-DMSO-osmium procedure.
(20) This technique is useful in case of ulnar palsy in children, where palmaris longus many-tailed graft is desired as lumbrical replacement and where Brand's anastomosis is considered too difficult.
Worm
Definition:
(n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
(n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
(n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
(n.) Any annelid.
(n.) An insect larva.
(n.) Same as Vermes.
(n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
(n.) A being debased and despised.
(n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
(n.) The thread of a screw.
(n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
(n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
(n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
(n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
(v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
(v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
(v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
(n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
(n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other filarial worms which are known to occur in the RSA are discussed.
(2) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
(3) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
(4) glp-4(bn2ts) mutant worms raised at the restrictive temperature contain approximately 12 germ nuclei, in contrast to the 700-1000 present in wild-type adults.
(5) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-ricin exhibited binding to schistosomula and adult worms, but not to cercariae or to freshly transformed schistosomula.
(6) Sera from S. mansoni-infected patients with a high specificity for the diagnostic S. mansoni-antigen cross-reacted with a corresponding component also in S. japonicum worms.
(7) To understand mechanisms involved in sex-specific gene expression in Schistosoma mansoni, a cDNA (fs800) was isolated that hybridized to an 800 nucleotide mRNA present in high levels only in mature female worms.
(8) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
(9) Antigen inhibition studies showed low and high levels of cross-reactivity with anti-worm and anti-egg antibodies, respectively, derived from both Chinese and Philippine patients.
(10) Only eosinophils adhered to 2 h newborn worms and only macrophages to 20 h ones.
(11) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
(12) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
(13) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(14) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
(15) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
(16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
(17) A higher retention rate of intestinal adult worms was observed in hydrocortisone-treated mice.
(18) No evidence was obtained for the involvement of monoamine oxidases in the metabolism of 5-HT in these filarial worms.
(19) Radiocarbons from glucosamine and leucine were incorporated into tissue glycogen of female worms much less than glucose.
(20) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.