(n.) The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
(n.) That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance.
(n.) The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(3) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(5) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
(6) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(7) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(8) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
(9) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(10) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(11) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
(12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(13) Tubal obstruction could be demonstrated in only one of these patients.
(14) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(15) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(16) Regression of the tumor occurred during an episode of mechanical small bowel obstruction.
(17) Comparison with 99Tc-pyrophosphate uptake in infarcted dog heart, induced by selective obstruction of a coronary artery, suggest that the 111In-labelled F(ab')2 localizes specifically in infarcted myocardium only.
(18) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(19) We recently treated a patient in whom HPVG was caused by intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
(20) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.
Scaffold
Definition:
(n.) A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc.
(n.) Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
(n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
(v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Detailed analysis presented here reveals the presence of only two closely linked sites in 35,000 base-pairs scanned that mediate attachment of the dhfr gene to the nuclear scaffold.
(2) Both contain an internal protein (VP22a in the case of HSV-1 B capsids and gp8 or "scaffolding" protein in phage P22) that can be extracted in vitro with GuHCl and that is absent from mature virions.
(3) These muscle cells are then cultured on a scaffold with nutrients and essential vitamins and grown to desired quantities.
(4) According to the Times of India newspaper, officials handling the royal tour requested scaffolding at the site be taken down.
(5) The arrival of sensory axons in the brain triggers changes in glial shape and position that lead to the formation of a glial scaffolding for the developing glomeruli.
(6) After more than a quarter of a century of camping out, the house, with its seven flights of stairs (a trial to Lessing in her final years), seemed almost to be supported by a precarious interior scaffolding of piles of books and shelves.
(7) Two recently identified genes (genes 67 and 68) and one already known gene (gene 22), whose products are scaffold constituents, have been investigated.
(8) In the preceding article we described a polyclonal antibody that recognizes cSc-1, a major polypeptide component of the chicken mitotic chromosome scaffold.
(9) A less complex pattern was found for nuclear scaffolds.
(10) The products of three of these genes, the portal, scaffolding, and coat proteins, are structural components of the precursor particle, and two, the products of genes 2 and 3, are not.
(11) We now demonstrate that the protein scaffold may be isolated independently of the DNA by treating HeLa chromosomes with micrococcal nuclease before removing the histones.The chromosomal scaffolds may be isolated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation as a well-defined peak that is stable in 2 M sodium chloride, but is dissociated by treatment with proteases, 4 M urea, or 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate.
(12) We speculate that the microfibril bundles serve as a scaffolding for the corneal stroma or as a light-diffracting element.
(13) Thus, they represent a strong candidate as a scaffold ligament or tendon prosthesis if crosslink density can be increased.
(14) In osteoconduction, the implant does not provide many viable cells but rather acts as a scaffolding for the ingrowth of new bone from the margins of the defect with the concurrent resorption of the implant; cortical bone grafts or banked bone segments are examples of this "creeping substitution."
(15) In the control grafts regenerating axons grew almost completely through the inside of the basal lamina scaffolds (92%) and adhered to the structure, while in the anti-laminin antiserum treated grafts the axons were present outside (52%) and inside (48%) the scaffolds simultaneously.
(16) These preparations and sections revealed that titin, a putative scaffolding protein of sarcomeres, is present in a punctate state and also in a diffuse form throughout the cytoplasm of cardiac myocytes in the premyofibril stages (4-7 somite stages) as well as in the early stages of myofibril formation.
(17) Their massed voices roll like thunder across the open-sided, scaffold-roofed stadium.
(18) The scaffold-like structures were not accessible to G-, R-, or C-banding techniques.
(19) We conclude that synchronous assembly of the scaffold and shell is not obligatory and that naked cores can serve as intermediates in the T4 assembly pathway.
(20) The key components of the model consisted of an oligomeric lysine scaffolding to amplify peptide antigens covalently 4-fold and a lipophilic membrane-anchoring group to further amplify noncovalently the antigens many-fold in liposomal or micellar form.