(n.) A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.
(n.) Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(3) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
(4) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(5) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(6) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(7) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(8) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
(9) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(10) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(11) Combined study of lungs of 85 foetuses and newborns of various gestational age and 8 newborns dying during the first month of life showed the lung surfactant (LS) system to develop in parallel with formation of respiratory parts and lung capillary network.
(12) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
(13) Network #5 conducted a pilot study of state survey results to profile data for Medical Review Board (MRB) analysis and to identify potential areas where educational activities could be focused.
(14) Networking has become a powerful means of creating change.
(15) We present a useful technique for analyzing the various functional components that comprise the cardiovascular control network.
(16) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(17) As a consequence, a neural network, considered as a kind of parallel random automata, delivers an output random field in response to the excitation provided by a random field that represents the activity of some input fibers.
(18) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(19) The increased oxygen delivery to the capillary network after limited hemodilution can be attributed to a compensatory increase in blood flow, an increase in systemic arterial blood oxygenation, and a decrease in precapillary oxygen loss.
(20) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
Plexus
Definition:
(pl. ) of Plexus
(n.) A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.
(n.) The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inhibition was not seen in longitudinal muscle without myenteric plexus.
(2) Both histochemical methods revealed the presence of intra-insular fiber plexuses.
(3) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(4) For Rana catesbeiana Vf was 1.43 microliter min-1 or 0.2 microliter min-1 mg choroid plexus-1 and for Rana pipiens Vf was 0.2 microliter min-1 or 0.1 microliter min-1 mg choroid plexus-1.
(5) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(6) Because this transport system in the choroid plexus is normally responsible for the excretion of the serotonin metabolite from the brain to the plasma, accumulation of endogenously produced organic acids in the brain, secondary to reduced clearance by the choroid plexus, could be a contributing factor in the development of encephalopathy in children with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency who have elevated levels of octanoic acid systematically.
(7) There was also a significant (P less than 0.001) improvement in clinician-assessed subjective and objective signs (bleeding, inflammation and dilatation of the haemorrhoidal plexus) after 2 and 4 weeks' treatment compared with placebo.
(8) For sequelae in the brain, nervous plexuses, heart, eye, surgical treatment can be useful, even if frequently with palliative results.
(9) The influence of high conduction blocks of the brachial plexus on the peripheral circulation in the upper extremities has been studied.
(10) Varicose fibres were found in the myenteric plexuses of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon.
(11) The patients with spasm on top of a fixed organic lesion underwent a successful aorto-coronary bypass graft together with resection of the pre- and sub-aortic nerve plexus.
(12) Increased or diminished reactivity of the celiac plexus is registered in patients with duodenal ulcers, depending on the presence of complications.
(13) IGF-1 transcripts were not detected in ependymal lining or choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle.
(14) Injury to the brachial plexus was prospectively assessed in 335 patients undergoing median sternotomy for cardiac operation.
(15) Stimulation of the ipsilateral plexus had no effect on glutamate and glutamine release.
(16) The number of 125I-ANP binding sites in the choroid plexus of rats with kaolin-induced hydrocephalus was significantly higher as compared to findings in the control rats, whereas no differences in the binding affinity were observed 3 days and 3 weeks after the intracisternal injection of kaolin.
(17) During a 4-year period, 83 pregnant women with fetal choroid plexus cysts were investigated in our unit.
(18) The take of the transplanted free skin flap on the hand was proved to be influenced by the degree of immobilization of the hand operated on and the transplanted graft, the efficiency of permanent anesthesia of the humeral plexus of the operated arm and by tissue therapy with the amnion suspension.
(19) In the observation of the serial sections, capillary plexuses were able to be confirmed along the periphery, very close to the auricular cartilage.
(20) In high thoracic level lesion paraplegics monitoring heart rate was considered to be unreliable because of suspicion of injury to the sympathetic contribution to the cardiac plexus.