(n.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
(n.) A single beat or throb of a series.
(n.) A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
(n.) Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microotoscopy showed a blue pulsating mass behind the tympanic membrane.
(2) The surface activity of two surfactant preparations, Lipid Extract Surfactant (LES) and Survanta, was examined during adsorption and dynamic compression using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
(3) The absence or reduction of CSF pulsation may prove to be a valuable indicator of the success of a shunting procedure.
(4) The use of in-phase TEs was preferable to maintain tissue contrast, and presaturation pulses were employed to eliminate vascular pulsation artifacts.
(5) During the gradual change in cuff pressure, the amplitude of consecutive arterial volume pulsations associated with pulse pressure shows change characteristically due to the nonlinearity of arterial pressure-volume(P-V) relation.
(6) Free serotonin may become adsorbed to the arterial wall, thus increasing sensitivity to pain, augmenting afferent input and adding a pulsating quality to migrainous pain.
(7) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
(8) Prominent carotid arterial pulsations were detected which distinguished the condition clinically from aortic atresia.
(9) CO diminished in fast expiration, and a phase shift between the heart pulsation and the CO was seen; both agree with experimental findings.
(10) Toward these ends, various devices and techniques have been developed, including several different types of vascular shunts in combination with or without extracorporeal oxygenation of blood, implantable auxiliary ventricle and augmentation of diastolic pressure by direct counter pulsation of blood through femoral cannulae or intra-aortic balloon.The sequenced counter pulsator is an external cardiac assist device being developed for the therapy of low output syndromes.
(11) At each time of harvesting, the implants were patent and showed arterial pulsations.
(12) The venous part regulates the venous inflow volume by the feedback type mechanism; the arterial part ensures complete EC in the pulsating mode during cardiosurgical intervention and auxiliary EC in the course of heart activity recovery after cardioplegia, promoting an increase of the coronary blood flow and synchronized blood supply.
(13) In a series of patients with chronic corneal diseases treated with soft contact lenses, good pressure and intraocular pulsations were recorded both with and without the soft lenses.
(14) If the anemia is severe, palpitations, otic pulsations, and cardiac decompensation are common.
(15) Most are used in the asynchronous full-to-empty mode, but they also may be used in a synchronous counter-pulsation mode.
(16) Using the pulsating bubble surfactometer, it could be demonstrated that surfactant mixed with this antibody had a significant higher minimum surface tension when compared with surfactant alone, or surfactant mixed with an unrelated mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG).
(17) In normal subjects stimulation of the vesicourethral junction was described as a stimulus-synchronous pulsation combined with a continuous burning feeling and sometimes with a desire to void.
(18) The ability of antisera and monoclonal antibodies to inhibit the functional activity of surfactant was assayed using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
(19) A mathematical model was derived expressing the amplitude of container pulsation (delta Po) as a function of mean intraluminal pressure (MPi), mean container pressure (MPo) and arterial pulse amplitude (delta Pi): delta Po = (-2(MPi - MPo) + b) (MPo + 1) delta Pi.
(20) Since it was easier to build equipment that recorded pulsations in amplitude, most work was confined to the recording of amplitude pulsations.
Pulse
Definition:
(n.) Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
(n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
(n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.
(v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
(v. t.) To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(3) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(4) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(5) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(6) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(7) For this purpose the blood flow velocity in the internal carotid artery, basilar cerebral artery and the anterior cerebral artery was measured by pulsed Dopplersonography before and 5-10 min after i.v.
(8) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(9) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
(10) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(11) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(12) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(13) The twitches elicited by 0.1 msec pulses were abolished by tetrodotoxin, but were not reduced by dimethyltubocurarine or by hexamethonium.
(14) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(15) Patients were grouped as +RSC if they developed a sustained spontaneous palpable pulse or blood pressure and as -RSC if they did not develop a pulse or blood pressure.
(16) The system employs continuous drug treatment (3 concentrations) for up to 8 h and recovery-cell populations after pulse treatments with a high dose.
(17) Replication patterns of the larval salivary gland chromosomes were compared after pulse labeling with 3H-thymidine and autoradiography.
(18) The observed purity under the selected conditions ranges from 80%-99% and is in accordance with the estimates of the purities made on the basis of the simultaneously recorded pulse shapes.
(19) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(20) To date, a cognate action of E2 on the GnRH pulse generator has not been described.