(a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.
(a.) Pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Menotropins and pulsatile GnRH should be considered first line therapy for women with hypogonadotropic anovulation.
(2) Increased concentrations of LH in ovariectomized mares during Periods 3 and 4 were associated with well defined pulsatile profiles.
(3) For the case of the fluctuating pressure, the strength of the artery becomes considerably lower than those under constant amplitude and two-step-multi-duplicated pulsatile pressure.
(4) This was faithfully reflected in the pattern of pulsatile LH discharges.
(5) A pulsatile flow was used in an organ preservation system under aseptic conditions.
(6) The results demonstrate that the addition of pulsatile flow to coronary perfusion minimized the deleterious effects of prolonged ventricular fibrillation on myocardial performance.
(7) The greater frequency of dysovulation in obese women, notably those who put on weight rapidly, is accompanied by numerous hormonal changes, including reduced sex hormone-binding globulin, increased ovarian and adrenal androgen production, increased peripheral aromatization of androgens to oestrogens, and altered gonadotropin pulsatile secretion.
(8) Preretinal pulsatile pressure juxtaarteriolar microinjections of neutral-pH solution of L-lactic acid also induced a segmental retinal arteriolar dilation.
(9) The characteristic signs and symptoms represent the triad of a pulsatile mass in the upper part of the abdomen, intermittent hemorrhage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract and severe epigastralgia not relieved by antacids.
(10) On the other hand, when the vasosensory areas were perfused at normal pulsatile pressures and within the normal physiological range of mean pressures, there was no difference in the size of the reflex vascular responses elicited by the same rise in mean pressure in the carotid sinuses and in the aortic arch.4.
(11) Both experiments were conducted using an animal model in which pulsatile secretion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and endogenous secretion of ovarian steroids were eliminated by ovariectomy during seasonal anestrus and treatment with Silastic implants which maintained a luteal-phase level of serum progesterone.
(12) 31P NMR spectroscopy proved to be an excellent, dynamic, nondestructive method for assessing the liver during cold flush and pulsatile perfusion experiments.
(13) The effect of initial perturbation of the thrombus by a guide wire appears to be less important than the thrombus disruption and accelerated thrombolysis caused by the pulsatile delivery system.
(14) Our study shows that detection of a pulsatile portal venous waveform on duplex Doppler sonography in patients with liver dysfunction should raise the possibility of tricuspid regurgitation.
(15) The spatial distribution of simulated regurgitant jets imaged by Doppler color flow mapping was evaluated under constant flow and pulsatile flow conditions.
(16) Trough levels of LH, however, are dependent on the frequency of LHRH-induced pulsatile LH secretion.
(17) During the period 1978-1985 we evaluated 20 patients with the sole or initial complaint of pulsatile tinnitus.
(18) Mean pulsatile GH secretion was low in the 34 patients tested.
(19) The pulsatile secretion of FSH remained relatively constant during the experiment.
(20) Two years after the 2nd operation, he recognized pulsatile bleeding from the fistula and was admitted to our hospital.
Vibrating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vibrate
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) The intensity changes seen for alpha-fucose were found to follow a reversible first-order rate-equation and the rate constants obtained from different vibrational bands were found to be consistent among themselves and in reasonable agreement with those obtained by other techniques.
(4) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
(5) The response of isolated muscle tissue of white rats to low-frequency vibration has been studied.
(6) The "random coil" conformational problem is examined by comparison of vibrational CD (VCD) spectra of various polypeptide model systems with that of proline oligomers [(Pro)n] and poly(L-proline).
(7) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(8) Additionally, by ultrasonic vibration of tissues that had been subjected to prolonged osmium fixation, the epithelium was removed and such microdissected membranes similarly were examined.
(9) The ability of a mathematical model to evaluate the effects of two different pain modulating procedures (partial nerve block and vibration) on acute experimental pulpal pain was studied.
(10) The only likely cause for the pathological vascular findings in our patient was an exposure to vibration due to excessive off-street motorcycle driving.
(11) Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy with 0.5-ps resolution is used to track the evolution of the CO stretching vibration after visible photoexcitation of carboxyhemoglobin in water at room temperature.
(12) Biodynamic stressors such as acceleration, vibration, heat, and cold can affect pilot performance.
(13) There have been shown many changes, which took place in the various anatomic-physiological formations of the brain, and evaluated their significance in organism's responses to the effects of ionizing and nonionizing radiation, hyperoxia, hypoxia, accelerations, vibrations and combined effects of some of those factors.
(14) Tetrapolar rheovasography was used to medically examine 54 riveters, of equal age and duration of work, who were exposed to the complex action of low-intensity vibration and noise.
(15) A vibration-rotation-tunneling band of the perdeuterated cluster has been measured near 89.6 wave numbers by tunable far infrared laser absorption spectroscopy.
(16) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
(17) Our experiments with monkeys gave typical resonance curves for the transmission of vibration of the bulbi with maxima between 25 and 31.5 Hz.
(18) Altering the frequency of vibration did not alter the distribution of tremor frequencies.
(19) Superficial cutaneous stimulation of the dorsal side of the forearm during tendon vibration noticeably decreased the P1 peaks in both types of motor units.
(20) A survey is given of the literature on the sensitivity of the vestibular system to audio-frequency sound and vibration in animals.