(a.) Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increased uptake by the spleen was also found in plethoric mice.
(2) According to the stereologic results, the consecutive circulatory alterations would facilitate the maternal-fetal exchanges in the plethoric placental territory, thus justifying the greater development of this twin.
(3) This is a historical review of "idiopathic cardiac hypertrophy with dilatation", or as it was called by Bollinger "alcoholic-plethoric beer heart".
(4) Etiocholanolone, when tested in normal mice or in mice that have been out of an hypoxic atmosphere for only a few days, stimulates erythropoiesis, but appears to have no effect on erythropoiesis when tested in plethoric mice that have very low residual red cell formation.
(5) The plethoric region appears as a postmature organ, with a very thin trophoblast layer and numerous vasculo-syncytial membranes.
(6) The foci of lesions are found more often in the left ventricle in myocardial tissue and under epicardium, sometimes near plethoric vessels and less often in the right ventricle and in the atria.
(7) Theophylline neither stimulates erythropoiesis nor potentiates the action of erythropoietin on bone marrow cells in plethoric mice.
(8) Plethoric mice with busulphan-induced reductions in stem cell populations (characterized as colony-forming units) and stimulated erythropoietin-responsive cell compartments were given FV; control groups, not receiving erythropoietin, also received FV.
(9) In order to characterize the target cell for the polycythemia inducing Friend virus (FV-P) in vivo, mice were treated by induction of plethorism, bleeding, Actinomycin D, and Busulfan before virus infection.
(10) Experiments with plethorized splenectomized mice showed unequivocally that they were able to respond to ESF, although their responses were very much smaller than that of intact mice, ranging from 1.4 to 12.0 percent.
(11) Removal of the treated kidney, following the development of the polycythemia, as well as the tumor growth and expansion in the renal parenchyma, reverse the plethoric condition, suggesting that the erythropoietic changes derive from nickel-induced renal lesions.
(12) Since this substance can be completely neutralized by an antiserum to erythropoietin and shows a dose--response relationship in the plethoric mouse assay, it is suggested that the culture medium contains erythropoietin, a hormone important in the regulation of erythropoiesis.
(13) Elevation of the serum Epo level with anemia suggests that a marrow abnormality is the cause of the anemia, while a "high" Epo level in a non-anemic or plethoric patient suggests the presence of hypoxia or autonomous Epo production.
(14) In exhypoxic plethoric mice the increase in CFUE concentration seen in normal mice in the spleen, is delayed by 2-3 days.
(15) A surprising finding was that plethoric uremic rats, injected with saline rather than with Ep, incorporated more 59Fe into their red blood cells than did sham-operated ones.
(16) A temporary reduction of the neutrophil number up to 25% of the initial level was recorded 5 min after intravenous plethoric administration of 1.0 ml of this emulsion to rats.
(17) Further experiments with plethoric animals indicated that different levels of erythropoietin did not account for the effects of platelet hypertransfusion.
(18) It is, however, dependent on the erythropoietic state of the animal, as seen in plethoric mice and mice after bleeding.
(19) Biological activity was determined in the plethoric mouse bioassay in which 59Fe incorporation was converted to units of Ep from standard reference curves.
(20) Erythropoiesis, as measured by the uptake of 59Fe into plethoric mice, is stimulated by adenosine, AMP, cyclic AMP, and dibutyryl cyclic AMP, but not by cytidine, its nucleotides or cyclic GMP.
(1) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(2) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
(3) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(4) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(5) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(6) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(7) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(8) Change of steps in achieved just by varying the reaction conditions without any product purification.
(9) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(10) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(11) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(12) The pH of ST solutions varied with the mode of oxygenation as follows: 7.9-8.2 in Groups I and IV; 8.7-8.9 in Groups II and V; 7.1-7.4 in Groups III and VI.
(13) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(14) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(15) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(16) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
(17) In the first experiment ovariectomized female hamsters were administered varying dosages of progesterone (P), dihydrotestosterone (DHT) or CI-628 at the same time (concurrently) as estrogen (EB) or 48 hr after EB (sequentially).
(18) Widely varying numbers of endocrine cells were identified in 12 out of 64 cases of uterine cancer in the course of histochemical and electron microscopic examination.
(19) Products formed during electrooxidation were monitored as the electrode potential was varied.
(20) A total of 63 patients (95%) showed varying degrees of hyperostosis involving the cribiform plate, planum sphenoidale, or tuberculum sellae (including the chiasmatic sulcus).