(a.) Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.
(a.) Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.
(a.) Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.
(a.) Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(2) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(3) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(4) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(5) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(6) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(7) In a further study 1082 patients with a negative or doubtful result of the physical examination were investigated using ultrasound.
(8) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(9) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(10) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(11) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(12) Taken together with other physical studies on the effect of vitamin E on (unsaturated) phospholipids, these results indicate that vitamin E could influence the physical properties of membrane phospholipids in addition to its known antioxidant role.
(13) A careful history, a thorough physical examination, and an appropriate selection of tests will identify these patients.
(14) The results confirm that physical training is clinically effective in patients suffering from claudication.
(15) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
(16) The studies reported here examined physical interactions between V. cholerae O1 and natural plankton populations of a geographical region in Bangladesh where cholera is an endemic disease.
(17) The weakness was treated by intensive physical rehabilitation with complete and sustained recovery in all cases.
(18) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
(19) Variables from the medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and radiographs were used to develop different sets of criteria to serve different investigative purposes.
(20) The initial history, physical findings, and roentgenographic examinations are found on this page.
Sonde
Definition:
(v. t.) That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sonde type enteroscopes can be passed to the ileum in most cases.
(2) Because sonde-type enteroscopes are not readily available, the clinician must decide at this point whether to refer the patient to an enteroscopist or consider surgery and intraoperative endoscopy.
(3) We used the sonde-type enteroscope (Olympus Corp.) that migrates distally responding to peristaltic activity.
(4) The presented vaginal sonde can be brought up to the investigated tissue at minimal distance and the patient can be sonographed without special preparation (e.g.
(5) The sonde type enteroscopes (SSIF, Olympus) are long, slender, flexible instruments which resemble the Miller-Abbott or Cantor tube.
(6) Peroral small intestinal enteroscopy was performed in 35 consecutive patients with gastrointestinal bleeding of unknown origin by using a prototypic Sonde-type enteroscope.
(7) Biosensors, sondes, and transducer elements are reviewed with respect to the application for fermentation processes of animal cells.
(8) By using a sond placed either in the tympanic bulla or in the Eustachian tube in the rat, the middle ear can be insufflated or aspirated with exact volumes of air.
(9) We believe that endoscopic examinations particularly of the upper and the lower digestive tracts will become much easier to perform with this new endoscopic sonde.
(10) Molecular biology allowed considerable improvements in diagnostic procedures by production of new and more specific sonds for the detection of traces of viruses, both on the nucleic acid and protein levels, and by determining the immune response of the host to specific antigens.
(11) The protocol consisted of the simultaneous monitoring of the following intra-atrial points: high right atrium, low lateral right atrium, left atrium and the His-bundle electrogram (HBE), which accompanied the detecting sonde placed as a loop in the superior vena cava, with the electrodes facing the sinus nodal area.
(12) The authors have treated 6 cases of childhood ingestion of disk batteries with bowel irrigation by nasogastric sonde.
(13) 1 g ADS in a 2% solution was infused during 1 h into jejunum in six healthy volunteers via a three lumen sond.
(14) to five healthy volunteers and the bile was collected during 3-4.5 h with the same type of three lumen sond as used in the first experiment.
(15) Endoscopic examination using a specially designed sonde-type small intestinal fiberscope (SSIF, Olympus) was performed in 37 patients of our clinic.
(16) A new technique of small bowel enteroscopy with a prototypic sonde-type enteroscope 9 ft in length was used to examine 60 patients referred to the hospital with gastrointestinal bleeding of obscure origin.
(17) Replacing the palpating hand by a sonde of an ultrasonic detector gave substantial precision to examinations in the test modification.
(18) Using a balloon driven sonde enteroscope (SIF-SW) extended views of the small bowel were obtained as far as the distal ileum.
(19) On Sonde Boulevard in the capital, Copenhagen, Lars Christensen is among a team of horticulturalists responsible for the city's landscaping.
(20) The serum cholesterol levels after 10 d were lower for rats eating oatmeal as compared to a commercial product, Biosorb Sond.