(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.
Purse
Definition:
(n.) A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.
(n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
(n.) A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
(n.) A specific sum of money
(n.) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
(n.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
(v. t.) To put into a purse.
(v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
(v. i.) To steal purses; to rob.
Example Sentences:
(1) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(2) Postoperative urodynamic studies have shown maximum capacity of 750 ml and the area of continence to be at the ileocecal valve where the purse-string sutures are placed.
(3) The technique involves the use of an extra-long sheath for filter placement and the application of a purse-string suture at the venipuncture site to facilitate hemostasis.
(4) In the interview, he similarly suggested he was willing to give the president leeway within Congress’ rights to reject nominees and control the White House’s purse.
(5) The public purse was helped by a 3.7% increase in tax receipts against a backdrop of economic growth and falling unemployment.
(6) Arsenal at Stoke has become one of the set pieces of Premier League football, a fixture almost certain to leave Wenger with pursed lips even if Tony Pulis and his rugby tactics have been replaced by Mark "over-physical, moi?"
(7) Subjects were placed alone in a room where purposeful oral activity such as eating, talking and smoking was not permitted, while activity such as pursing the lips sucking on cheeks, grimaces etc was measured by a specially designed electromyometer.
(8) They told Gutiérrez to gather what belonged to her - her clothes, her purse, her little boy - and come with them.
(9) Our presence underwrites the multi-use legacy of the stadium and our contribution alone will pay back more than the cost of building and converting the stadium over the course of our tenancy.” West Ham added in a later statement: “The worldwide draw of hosting the most popular and watched football league in the world in such an iconic venue will add value to any sponsorship and commercial agreements related to the stadium, which the public purse stands to further benefit from.
(10) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
(11) There were three distinct groups of operative techniques: (1) the purse-string technique in 40 patellectomies; (2) the vastus medialis technique in 24 patellectomies; (3) other techniques in 49 patellectomies.
(12) Unfortunately this will perpetuate the myth that loosening central bank purse strings is the answer, when that acts less like a bazooka and more like a popgun.
(13) For those who didn't know: academics, funded mostly by the public purse, pay for the production and dissemination of papers; but for historical reasons, these are published by private organisations that charge around $30 (£18.50) per paper, keeping out any reader who doesn't have access through their institution.
(14) There may be technical difficulties in the use of recommended clamp for the insertion of the purse-string suture during the construction of an end-to-end staple anastomosis.
(15) City analysts said Prudential's aim to tap investors in the coming two months follows huge demands on the purse strings of investors who have been asked to back fundraisings by London-listed companies worth almost £60bn over two years.
(16) This work shows our personal technique for performing esophagoenterostomy, especially in the thoracic area, using the new CEEA stapler (Autosuture) without esophageal purse-string sutures.
(17) In the end, said Green, “the essence of the case is about whether it is lawful for states to prevent the tobacco industry from continuing to make profits by using their trademarks and other rights to further what the World Health Organisation describes as a health crisis of epidemic proportions and which imposes an immense cleanup cost on the public purse.
(18) That has the advantage for the Conservatives of taking the burden of the hungry off the public purse, shrinking the state and preparing the poor for a harsher labour market in the process.
(19) Just as Banksy causes collateral damage to the neatness of walls, so Amazon's masterpiece is a defacement of the public purse.
(20) "It is vital that local health bodies and local councils look carefully at the guidance as it clearly sets out how, in the long run, investing in support for adults with autism will save money to the public purse," the National Autistic Society stresses.