(1) Other pathological processes are usually imaged by their hyperecho-characteristics: brain oedema has an increased reflexion compared to normal brain tissue; all brain tumors are diffusely echogenic, the image allows preliminary grading e.g.
(2) Deficiencies in explicit ethic reflexions and empiric research for coping with such problems led to interdisciplinary medico-ethical work groups and journals over the last years.
(3) Human blood serum has been analyzed by X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy utilizing the effect of background reduction by total reflexion of the incident X-ray beam on an optical flat as sample support.
(4) We have made a general reflexion on the problems aroused by this very common al condition, which has an imprevisible, some times severe, outcome.
(5) A short visit to a medical consulting room as it may have looked one hundred years ago, illustrates some aspects of medical practice of this time, outlines in scraps and fragments an idea of this medicine and tries to encourage reflexions about contemporary and timeless problems of medical practice.
(6) The reflexion coefficient of sucrose (and therefore the osmotic effect) is larger than that of KCl.
(7) This brief analysis is concluded by some reflexions from the clinical, social, couple and individual points of view.
(8) The diffraction intensities associated with these reflexions originate from the axial period of 39 nm attributable to the repeat of troponin-tropomyosin on the thin filament.
(9) When active muscle was stretched by 7% at a constant speed of 0.03-0.70 muscle lengths s-1, the intensity of the meridional reflexion decreased progressively as the tension increased continuously during the stretch.
(10) Teeth that had been left without toothbrushing for 24 hours showed statistically significant (p less than 0.05) lower light reflexion values than those recorded immediately after the teeth had been brushed with a toothpaste.
(11) The mean figure of merit mean value of m, for the 1106 reflexions used was 0.70.
(12) The results show that the retina is the main centre of mass reflexions which disappear in polarized light.
(13) On the other hand, light-reflexion rheography and photoplethysmography can measure only the duration of the refilling period.
(14) These heuristic reflexions open the way to further investigations.
(15) On increasing the relative humidity to 84% a second phase with a layer-line repeat of 1.65nm is obtained with the reflexions indexing on a triclinic unit cell similar to that obtained previously (Nieduszynski & Atkins, 1973) for pig mucosal heparin.
(16) The structure has been solved and refined to a final R of 0.068 for 1838 independent reflexions with I greater than 2 omega (I).
(17) Observations of the microscope image of the smooth muscle cells in the walls of these vessels indicate that there is little intercellular compliance in this preparation, and that the mechanical properties of the activated preparation are a reflexion of the mechanical properties of the individual smooth muscle cells.
(18) Upon activation of the frog striated muscle, the two reflexions underwent biphasic time courses of the intensity changes.
(19) There were also some late peaks due to reflexion of the antidromic action potentials from the ganglion cells.7.
(20) The transient increase of small myelinated fibers may be a reflexion of myelinated fiber regeneration during the progressive degenerative process of the motor neurons.
Rumination
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.
(n.) The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.
(n.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
(2) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(3) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
(4) Ruminal digestion (% of intake) of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and hemicellulose decreased linearly (P less than .05), whereas acid detergent fiber (ADF) digestion responded in a cubic (P less than .05) fashion to increasing concentrate level; NaHCO3 improved ruminal digestion of NDF (P less than .10) and ADF (P less than .05), but not hemicellulose.
(5) The results of these trials suggest that increasing level of dietary NaHCO3 greatly increases the proportion of time ruminal pH is above critical levels for ruminal protein and dry matter digestion, but does not affect total tract nutrient digestion when 50% concentrate diets are fed.
(6) Extents of in situ ruminal digestion (72 h residue) for NDF, hemicellulose and cellulose were lower (P less than .05) for full-head than for late-boot-stage bromegrass.
(7) Consistent with the convergence hypothesis, only those sites that specify amino acids in the mature lysozyme are shared uniquely with ruminant lysozyme genes.
(8) Each of the primary stress selected isolates was tested in synthetic saliva, rumen fluid simulating the activity in the rumen, rumen fluid followed by pepsin-hydrochloric acid treatment simulating the additional effect of ruminal and abomasal activity, pepsin-hydrochloric acid solution simulating conditions in the abomasum and finally in a trypsin solution as an example of enzyme activity in the gut.
(9) It follows from the results that the effectiveness of some antifasciolics on laboratory animals need not always be in correlation with their effect in ruminants - hence it is necessary to verify the results obtained in laboratory animals and to check them on natural F. hepatica hosts.
(10) Ruminal lactate concentrations were variable within and among treatments.
(11) Data from the literature on the clinical effects of bacterial endotoxins in ruminants are reviewed.
(12) The strains of BTV serotype 11 were mild in their pathogenicity for the ruminants as no clinical signs of disease were seen.
(13) On defaunation of the rumen to remove ciliated protozoa the concentration of phosphatidylcholine in ruminal digesta falls markedly and becomes lower than that in abomasal digesta.
(14) The effect of ubiquitous clostridial infections on ruminants is discussed.
(15) Rauschia gen. nov. (type species: R. triangularis) is created for species previously pertaining to Nematodirus parasite of Lagomorpha, and in which the synlophe, very complex, differs from the synlophe of the parasite of Ruminants.
(16) When the rate of ruminal epithelial cell proliferation was measured on the basis of 3H-thymidine incorporation into the cellular DNA, butyrate dose-dependently reduced 3H-thymidine incorporation.
(17) Ruminal ammonia, molar percentage butyrate, and blood ketones, plasma urea N, and plasma molar percentage butyrate were lower when hay was fed.
(18) Breakdown of LP by rumination was calculated from the weight of total particles regurgitated and the proportion of LP in the regurgitated and swallowed remasticated material.
(19) Single doses of (15NH4)2SO4 were infused into ruminal pools to determine N kinetics.
(20) Nickel did not alter methane production, carcass characteristics or ruminal volatile fatty acid proportions.