(n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
(n.) A sinew or a tendon.
(n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
(n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
(n.) Audacity; assurance.
(n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
(n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
(v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(2) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(3) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(4) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(5) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(6) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(7) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(8) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(9) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(10) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(11) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(12) The ATP content of the cholinergic electromotor nerves of Torpedo marmorata has been measured.
(13) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(14) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(15) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(16) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
(17) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(18) However, none of the nerve terminals making synaptic contacts with glomus cells exhibited SP-like immunoreactivity.
(19) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(20) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
Ulnar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(2) The anesthesiologist assessed the degree of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively prior to pharmacologic reversal either by the standard method of visually counting the number of evoked thumb twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve (i.e., thumb train-of-four count), or by an alternative method such as 1) visually counting the number of evoked orbicularis oculi muscle twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the facial nerve, or 2) observing the patient for clinical evidence of partial recovery (e.g., swallowing or attempts to breathe).
(3) The growth in the revascularized bone grafts has been compared to that in heterotopic, nonvascularized ulna transfers and to normal ulnar growth.
(4) One patient with the disease localised to the eyelid had normal EMG responses when monitored on the hand with ulnar nerve stimulation.
(5) The technique includes the soft tissue correction of the ulnar deviation.
(6) The mean values of radial and ulnar components for each pair of homologous fingers separately are also compared.
(7) We undertook this study to determine the incidence, time of onset, and outcome of clinical and subclinical ulnar neuropathies.
(8) We also observed one case of ulnar nerve compression.
(9) In the 18 asymptomatic diamond assorters, electrophysiological studies revealed an ulnar neuropathy in two (again in the hand used for holding the eye-glass).
(10) Motor nerve conduction study along the entire length of the ulnar and tibialis posterior nerves was carried out in 30 diabetics compared with 30 uremic patients and 30 control subjects.
(11) Findings at surgery included chondromalacia of the ulnar head (19), tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (11), and excessive mobility of the ulnar head (10).
(12) There were no radial or ulnar nerve injuries, nonunions, infections, or hypertrophic scars.
(13) The thoracic extremity skeleton lesions are revealed as an ulnar type of distal ectromelia, or axial ectromelia.
(14) The more serious sequelae must be ascribed either to rotary deformity or to ulnar angulation at the fracture-site.
(15) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(16) Motor nerve condition velocity of both the nerves and amplitude of sensory response of ulnar nerve were significantly decreased in even moderate protein calorie malnourished (PCM) group of monkeys.
(17) Between January 1980 and March 1988 twenty-two patients with compression neuropathies of the ulnar nerve in the Guyon's canal were treated.
(18) Healing time for the ulnar fractures ranged from eight to 20 weeks, with an average of ten weeks.
(19) Subluxation and luxation of the ulnar nerve are normally congenital and can result in not only an irritation of the nerve but also sensory loss and motor weakness.
(20) There was no significant difference in ulnar variance between Japanese with normal wrists and those affected by Kienböck's disease, when the effects of sex and age were taken into account.