(1) Two days later the lambs were delivered, given sheep surfactant, paralyzed, and their lungs mechanically ventilated.
(2) Dogs were anesthetized, paralyzed, and mechanically ventilated.
(3) To examine the effects of focally cooling three areas (rostral, intermediate, and caudal) of the ventral medullary surface (VMS) on respiratory oscillations in cervical sympathetic and phrenic nerve activity, 12 cats were anesthetized, vagotomized, paralyzed, and artificially ventilated with 7% CO2 in O2.
(4) The changes in the levels and distribution of gamma- and epsilon-subunit-specific mRNAs in toxin-paralyzed muscle correlate well with the spatial appearance of functional fetal and adult AChR channel subtypes along the muscle fiber.
(5) The spectrum of disabilities attendant to laryngeal paralysis range from mild hoarseness to complete upper airway obstruction depending upon the static position of the paralyzed cord or cords.
(6) The arrangement of the ventral root afferent fibers was investigated in anesthetized and paralyzed cats.
(7) Neural activities were recorded in decerebrate, vagotomized, paralyzed, and ventilated cats.
(8) Intracellular recordings and labelings with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) of inspiratory neurons were performed in decerebrate, paralyzed and ventilated rats.
(9) For all mutants the virus dose required to paralyze 50% of the infected animals was significantly higher than of the parent strain Barty.
(10) Experiments were carried out on 36 urethane-chloralose aneasthesized, paralyzed, vagotomized and artificially ventilated rabbits.
(11) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(12) Visual response latencies and rise times of X and Y ganglion cells recorded in the optic tract of anaesthetized, paralyzed cats were measured during repeated stimulation with sinusoidal gratings.
(13) All five stages are identified and are the same regardless of whether the animal is unparalyzed or is paralyzed and artificially respired.
(14) Inspiratory bursts were recorded from the phrenic nerve in Macaca fascicularis monkeys paralyzed and ventilated by means of a servoventilator driven by the inspiratory discharge of the phrenic nerve.
(15) The spinal cord injured patient has been the focus of clinical and research efforts to restore functional movement and obtain therapeutic benefits by electric stimulation of upper-motor-neuron paralyzed muscles.
(16) A transient phase of weak immunity was detected prior to the onset of paralysis when induced by relatively low paralyzing doses of polysaccharide.
(17) After 3 months of training it was found that endurance increased from 8 min at a work rate of 0 W to 30 min at a work rate of 40 W. Compared to the cardiovascular responses in non-paralyzed subjects, computerized cycle ergometry was found to be associated with higher relative stresses for a given level of absolute work.
(18) It is important for clinicians to recognize that benign knee joint effusions are likely to be encountered in paralyzed patients.
(19) Successful electrotherapy depends upon an early beginning, the selective stimulation of the paralyzed muscles with exponential current at a sufficiently high intensity under isometric conditions and by avoiding overstretching of the muscles.
(20) Following intubation of the trachea the patient was paralyzed and mechanically ventilated.
Spastic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.
Example Sentences:
(1) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(2) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
(3) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(4) The drug proved to be of high value in alleviating nocturnal coughing controlling spastic bronchitis in children, as a pretreatment before bronchological examinations and their anaesthesia.
(5) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(6) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(7) The authors elaborated differentiated complexes of rehabilitative treatment for patients with spastic hemiparesis, normal or decreased tone, as well as for patients with transient disorders of cerebral circulation in conditions of a cardiological sanatorium.
(8) One patient was spastic and two others were athetotic.
(9) Certain pediatric patients and neonates, especially those with spastic neurogenic bladders or those who have had bilateral ureteral reimplantation, are more susceptible to this form of urinary obstruction.
(10) Evidence is provided for the concept of enlarged spasms (phenomenon of the spastic dominant) common to peptic ulcer.
(11) Further, CT-scan in families with spastic paraparesis may be of help in detecting early evidence of an underlying diffuse white matter disorder, eventually supported by more conclusive studies as VLCFA determinations.
(12) Because of laboratory and clinical observation that recurrent nerve paralysis retracts the involved vocal cord from the midline, it was proposed that deliberate section of the recurrent nerve would improve the vocal quality of patients with spastic dysphonia.
(13) Our results thus indicated that repeated applications of TENS can reduce clinical spasticity and improve control of reflex and motor functions in hemiparetic subjects.
(14) A case of acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) with spastic paralysis of the lower extremities caused by a tumor of the spinal cord as the first symptoms of the disease is presented.
(15) On this basis, afloqualone might be expected to exhibit moderate myotonolytic activity in rheumatological indications, but to be of questionable value in spasticity.
(16) We evaluated 38 noninstitutionalized patients with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy with 51 dislocated hips.
(17) Two middle-aged subjects, a male and female, with spastic dysphonia (hoarseness, stammering) were treated with both frontalis and throat muscle electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback.
(18) The intensity of spasticity was measured electromyographically by the amplitude of the stretch reflex at various velocities, and the results were correlated with those obtained by clinical assessment.
(19) These findings suggested that longer-term TENS may be effective in reducing hemiparetic spasticity.
(20) There was left spastic hemiparesis with hemisensory disturbance and he could not walk without help for the maked spasticity.