(n.) The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
(n.) Position; place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
(2) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(3) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
(4) Possible mechanisms for this change in nucleosome placement along the DNA are discussed.
(5) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(6) The other 7 cysts required the subsequent placement of a cystoperitoneal shunt.
(7) US guidance facilitated placement of a 22-gauge needle by means of a subxyphoid or transthoracic approach.
(8) Eight patients with infected nonunions had initial debridement procedures; three of these patients then had placement of external fixators and bone grafting.
(9) The statistical method proved to be very strong in screening patients who should not be considered for community placement and in four of the five facilities was also strong in identifying appropriate outpatients.
(10) Liability of retransplanted syngeneic skin grafts to rejection could be almost entirely abolished by their exposure to 300 rads irradiation before placement on the intermediate host.
(11) In 1971 the Chedoke-McMaster center initiated an assessment and placement program for emotionally disturbed preadolescents in the Hamilton, Ontario, area.
(12) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
(13) The technique described involves placement of an intraluminal shunt and resection of the involved caval wall with reconstruction using autologous pericardium.
(14) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(15) The tests used were the Griffiths' Developmental and Stanford-Binet Scales, and the school placement at five years was studied.
(16) The inappropriate placement of a patient's central venous catheter in the pleural space by the serendipitous injection of Tc-99m labeled red blood cells through the catheter during a GI bleeding study was discovered.
(17) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
(18) Placement of impervious knitted Dacron velour aortic grafts in baboons reproduced platelet consumption that progressively normalized over six weeks postoperatively.
(19) Complications from tissue expansion of the scalp are similar to those encountered with the placement of expanders elsewhere in the body.
(20) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
Sublingual
Definition:
(a.) Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland; as, sublingual salvia.
Example Sentences:
(1) A multiparametric analysis of the resident immune populations in the parotid, submandibular and sublingual salivary glands was done in single-cell suspensions.
(2) In 2 cases, sublingual nitroglycerin failed to completely relieve the spasm.
(3) Many alternatives to such a crisis situation, including the intratracheal, intracardiac, and sublingual routes of administration, have been proposed and efficaciously used.
(4) 26 patients with chronic coronary artery disease had ventriculograms before and after 0.4 mg sublingual nitroglycerin.
(5) Mean anginal frequency and sublingual nitroglycerin consumption were low during the cross-over placebo period and did not change significantly during therapy with nicardipine.
(6) To determine the effects of diltiazem (DTZ) and nitroglycerin (NTG) on left ventricular (LV) diastolic relaxation and filling in patients with cornary artery disease (CADpts), LV graphy and time constant (Tc) of LV isovolumic pressure decay were studied before and 5 min after intravenous DTZ (10 mg) in 16 CADpts and sublingual NTG (0.3 mg) in 11 CADpts.
(7) These results show that sublingual administration of salbutamol tablet has no clinical benefit over the oral route.
(8) The results suggest that compliance in using the initial prescription for sublingual nitroglycerin can be improved when the physician supervises the first dose.
(9) Lateral separation of the upper incisors by application of force from an orthodontic appliance caused significant enlargement of the sublingual and submandibular glands of rats by three and seven days, respectively, after the beginning of the orthodontic treatment.
(10) The administration of 5 mg and 10 mg doses, both sublingually and orally, caused significant reductions of systemic arterial pressure, cardiac index, stroke index, and pulmonary arterial pressure that were prominent 15 to 30 minutes after administration of the drug.
(11) This instrument was also used to measure each subject's sublingual temperature in order to compute the differences between sublingual and subgingival temperature.
(12) The acyltransferase activity of this fraction was 1.3-1.4 times greater in submandibular gland than in sublingual gland.
(13) Formation of both weals and flares was significantly inhibited by cetirizine administered by either route; weals were inhibited as early as 20 min after oral intake but not clearly inhibited until 90 min after sublingual intake.
(14) Adenyl cyclase activity in mucous acinar cells and serous demilune cells of the rat sublingual gland was localized cytochemically.
(15) We conclude that sublingual captopril is effective in patients with hypertensive emergencies and that captopril may be an excellent alternative to sublingual nifedipine in the urgent treatment of hypertensive crisis.
(16) We have concluded from the final data that the sublingual bar compares favorably with the lingual plate in patient acceptance and should be considered as a viable design alternative when a lingual plate is not indicated.
(17) Exercise tolerance before and after sublingual isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN), 10 mg, was assessed in 217 consecutive patients with stable angina, positive exercise test, and angiographically proved coronary artery disease.
(18) Sublingual nifedipine was administered perioperatively to 19 elderly (age, greater than or equal to 60 years) patients undergoing ophthalmologic surgery.
(19) The existence and distribution of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), and Met-enkephalin pentapeptide were investigated by means of the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) technique in rabbit submandibular and sublingual glands.
(20) These data indicate that the interindividual variations of changes in coronary lumen size are due to different slopes of plasma level increase, most likely due to different rates of drug absorption after sublingual administration of nifedipine.