(1) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
(2) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(3) But life is very difficult now.” Urmani motions to the river opposite, languishing green and motionless.
(4) Quiet inspiration before and after phrenicotomy was always associated with a caudal displacement of the sternum and a cranial displacement of the seventh rib; the second rib, however, was either motionless or also showed an inspiratory caudal displacement.
(5) The EMG potentials were recorded in the agonist and antagonist of the right and left upper or lower extremity in the motionless state (factor B by Tardieu), simple movement, simple movement against resistance and nociceptive irritation (Babinski phenomenon).
(6) The authors conclude that, in motionless lung, MRI has lower spatial but greater contrast resolution than CT.
(7) At the initiation of anaphase, a pair of chromatids could be held by the optical trap and kept motionless throughout anaphase while the other pairs of chromatids separated and moved to opposite spindle poles.
(8) The first and most common type had three clinical phases, consisting of an initial motionless stare, stereotyped movements, and reactive automatisms during impaired consciousness.
(9) Each segment was classified according to its shape and motion: akinetic, dyskinetic or aneurysmal, and the papillary muscles of the mitral valve were assessed as normal or pathological (dense and motionless on the echogram).
(10) In the remaining patient who presented with chronic cor pulmonale, two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated a motionless ovoid mass with a broad base of attachment to the interatrial septum.
(11) In experiment 3, habituation to a shape undergoing two rigid motions was followed by a new shape presented motionless, or the same shape presented motionless.
(12) At the higher temperatures the motionless sperms were dead but this was not the case at 4 degrees.
(13) Most of the task-related neurons (70%) responded in the choice phase in which the animal either made an arm movement (go condition) or kept its arm motionless (no-go condition) in order to obtain a water reward.
(14) The behavior of the animals appeared splaying of the contralateral extremities, circling around counterclockwise and in a comatose motionless state.
(15) They step, stop, and stay, motionless, nose to the air, looking and smelling.
(16) For the first 60 min the subjects were cooled while sitting motionless and for the latter 60 min they were submitted to cycle ergometer exercise (CE), arm ergometer exercise (AE) or step exercise (ST).
(17) Nystagmic eye movement, optokinetic, was recorded on ENG during this motionless flight simulator, which increased on banking.
(18) The proposed model allows positive thigmotaxis, generally referred to in the literature simply as thigmotaxis, to be considered as the rate-constant of transition into the motionless state.
(19) Complex partial seizures (CPSs) beginning with an initial motionless stare (IMS) have been reported to respond well to temporal lobectomy.
(20) The line-spread function of a motionless line source was compared with that of a moving source (for two kinds of motion: regular and harmonic).
Sedentary
Definition:
(a.) Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man.
(a.) Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life.
(a.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
Example Sentences:
(1) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
(2) During recovery, while the heart rate decreased and the RR interval variance increased, there was a relative increase in LF and a relative decrease in HF in normal subjects (either sedentary or athletic).
(3) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(4) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(5) Ten animals served as sedentary controls, the 10 experimental animals were subjected to a training program with gradually increasing intensity of 18 weeks duration on a motor-driven treadmill.
(6) Thirty-five healthy, sedentary postmenopausal women, 55 to 70 years old.
(7) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
(8) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(9) The present investigation was undertaken to evaluate the vagal function of trained (T) and sedentary (S) rats by use of different approaches in the same animal.
(10) Many of these factors, including hypertension, smoking, elevated blood fats, sedentary life style, and Type A personality, are related to life-style habits and, therefore, are modifiable.
(11) Fit elderly score higher on tests of fluid intelligence than aged-matched sedentary controls.
(12) Both LPD and exercise training (EXT) were found to increase significantly the rate of TG-FA substrate cycling above the rates observed in dietary and sedentary control groups.
(13) A total of 60 male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned at 6 weeks of age to a sedentary control group (n = 22) or to a group with unlimited access to a running wheel (n = 38).
(14) De novo synthesis of adenine nucleotide was measured in quiescent and contracting muscle of sedentary and exercise-trained rats using an isolated perfused hindquarter preparation.
(15) However, the long-term exercise regimen prevented the age-associated decline in CPK activity found in sedentary animals.
(16) When the circadian rhythm of serotonin (5-HT) and 5-HIAA was studied in the hypothalamus, a minimum of 5-HT as seen in semistarved sedentary and running rats around feeding time (noon).
(17) Regional differences of substrate oxidation rates in the myocardium of old sedentary or trained rats were less than in young rats, suggesting that regional differences in the cardiac work load disappear during ageing.
(18) Subsequently, groups were subdivided into exercise-trained (T) and sedentary (S) groups.
(19) A total of 418 biopsies was obtained from the vastus lateralis muscle of 270 healthy sedentary and 148 physically active individuals of both sexes.
(20) The structural and mechanical properties of the runners' tarsometatarsus bones were compared with sedentary age-matched controls at 8 and 12 wk of age.