(n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
(n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
(a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
(v. i.) To be a pet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
(2) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(3) The PET studies suggest dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex as a result of damage to the lentiform nuclei.
(4) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
(5) Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are now being used to improve the information available from radioisotopic imaging of patients with cancer.
(6) The muscarinic receptor agonist carbachol had no significant effects on [3H]PEt and [3H]IP formation in nontransfected HEK cells.
(7) Appropriate corrections for atrophy should be employed if current PET scanners are to accurately measure actual brain tissue metabolism in various pathologic states.
(8) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(9) Such information could be most useful for in vivo receptor visualization studies using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning.
(10) Half the adolescents completed the child maltreatment instrument first, while the rest completed the pet maltreatment instrument.
(11) In this study, PET images were obtained using [18F]-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose, a marker for glucose metabolism.
(12) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(13) The distribution of 1-11C-acetoacetic acid after injection into adult Wistar rats and cats was investigated by PET.
(14) If we start letting movie stars – even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice – to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said at the time.
(15) We have developed a method that allows two sets of regional cerebral metabolic rates of glucose (rCMRglc) to be obtained in a single extended procedure using positron emission tomography (PET) and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).
(16) Metabolic PET studies also give insight into pathophysiologic mechanisms of epilepsy.
(17) In view of the number of PET studies involving low count rate acquisitions, there has been increasing interest recently in the development of positron cameras capable of fully three-dimensional acquisition and reconstruction.
(18) We performed dynamic positron emission tomographic (PET) studies of glucose utilization, using (18F) 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy age-matched controls, to evaluate blood-brain-barrier glucose transport and glucose utilization rates in the disease.
(19) We used a 11C-glucose method for positron emission tomography (PET) while estimating cerebral glucose metabolism during human sleep with polysomnography (PSG).
(20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Tend
Definition:
(v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
(v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
(v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
(v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To await; to expect.
(a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
(a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(4) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(5) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(6) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(7) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(8) Fibrinolysis tended to be depressed in resting ANO patients.
(9) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
(10) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
(11) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(12) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
(13) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
(14) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(15) Urinary Hg excretion was variable during the first 24 h after HgCl2 injection and tended to be higher with higher dosage unless the animals became anuric early on.
(16) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
(17) The more the OKT8+ and B1+ lymphocytes infiltrated, the longer the survival (rate obtained) whereas, the infiltration of some kinds of plasma cells tended to have a negative correlation with the prognosis of the case.
(18) This fact is due to the characteristic of IgE which tends to fix itself to basophil membrane.
(19) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(20) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.