(1) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(2) The observation that phase reversals did not occur in area 29, together with the low incidence of phasic (rhythmic) theta-on cells, suggests that the posterior cingulate cortex does not independently generate type 2 theta.
(3) Preliminary rhythmic somatic stimulation has a predominantly facilitating effect on EPs appearing in response to tonal stimuli in the areas A1, S2, S1.
(4) We conclude that the pacemaker cells are necessary for rhythmic contractile activity and that cells outside this region do not contract spontaneously.
(5) Under best possible conditions of oxygen supply but in a later stage of perfusion, contractility during rhythmical stimulation is depressed more at lower than at higher rates.
(6) These data suggest that SCN plays a significant role in controlling the rhythmic activity of LHA, VMN and the pineal gland.
(7) Some organization schemes concerning locomotor and scratching rhythmicity generators are considered, such as: two half-centres with reciprocal inhibitory connections and tonic excitatory influences on these half-centres: two half-centres with inhibitory-excitatory connections and tonic excitatory influences on one half-centre; ring structures consisting of more than two functional groups of neurons with excitatory and inhibitory connections between them.
(8) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
(9) The relaxation achieved by rhythmic photoacoustic effects with the help of the device pre-supposes the regulation of the patient's respiration.
(10) When initiated, the two rhythmic activities continued with no further external stimulation although the intraoral self-stimulation differed.
(11) The clinical risks of the reperfusion syndrome are low, practically never rhythmic and only exceptionally haemodynamic.
(12) Disruption of the rhythmic activity of the inspiratory neurons and its replacement by a continuous and irregular discharge may lead to sustained contraction of inspiratory muscles and cessation of respiration.
(13) The rhythmic waves induced by these ions were recorded in the olfactory bulb.
(14) Different repercussion of drug therapy on rhythmic profile of patients with CHF.
(15) The spontaneous rhythmic contraction (RC) occurred consistently in the preparation taken from the thoracic aorta without external stimuli.
(16) This difference, however, did not influence the detection of rhythmical ictal activity in cheek and sphenoidal montages in our study, nor the assignment of side, site or time of seizure onset by unbiased readers.
(17) These observations indicate that the central neural mechanisms responsible for the generation and entrainment of circadian rhythmicity in the rat are not capable of either the functional or morphological plasticity characteristic of other developing neural systems.
(18) The same concentration of carbachol, after metabolic depletion by substrate removal, produced rhythmic contractions and action potentials.
(19) Critical features of the model include a non-monotonic relationship between recovery time during rhythmic stimulation and the state of membrane properties, and a steeply sloped recovery of membrane properties over certain ranges of recovery times.
(20) The preparation was spontaneously active under minimal resting tension (less than 150 mg) and at temperatures above 28 degrees C. Slow depolarizations led to a burst of spikes (multi-spike complexes), which corresponded to rhythmic contractions.
Thump
Definition:
(n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
(n.) A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.
(v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.
(v. i.) To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(2) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
(3) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
(4) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(5) They must have thought they had wrested control of this contest having started the second half with such urgency, the excellent Sergio Agüero – "a powerful tank," according to Mourinho – darting behind Gary Cahill to collect Samir Nasri's pass and thump a glorious finish high beyond Petr Cech at his near post.
(6) John Terry’s opener had been thumped in early, Cesc Fàbregas’s corner veering into the penalty area for the centre-half to rise too easily above Rickie Lambert and plant a header down and beyond Simon Mignolet and Steven Gerrard on the goal-line.
(7) Italy 1-1 England | Friendly international match report Read more The Tottenham Hotspur forward, who was described as a “game-changer” by Roy Hodgson after his cameo here, was summoned from the bench in the second half and thumped in his side’s equaliser from distance 11 minutes from time.
(8) Accused by Trump of lacking energy, he has taken to thumping a fist into his hand for emphasis.
(9) In a fortnight we will hear how much rail fares will be going up in 2015 – and long-suffering commuters can expect to be thumped again.
(10) One plan for dealing effectively with this emergency consists of seven steps of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: (1) establishing the diagnosis and deciding whether to resuscitate; (2) administering a precordial thump, noting the time and summoning aid; (3) establishing a patent airway and performing artificial ventilation and external cardiac compression; (4) instituting general supportive measures; (5) diagnosing the cardiac arrhythmia responsible for the arrest; (6) treating the arrhythmia; and (7) managing the patient after resuscitation.
(11) The potential benefit of the precordial thump and cough versions greatly outweighs their risks; hence these manoeuvres should probably be reintroduced into schedules for first aid resuscitation.
(12) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
(13) A day that started with Wales climbing above England in the Fifa rankings for the first time ended in glorious fashion as Gareth Bale’s thumping header eight minutes from time put Chris Coleman and his players firmly on the road to France.
(14) For Stoke, it was a second 4-0 defeat in six days, after Monday’s home thumping by Tottenham Hotspur , and a third game in a row in which they have conceded four.
(15) This has been a fantastic experience.” This marked Scotland’s biggest away win since an 8-2 thumping of Northern Ireland in 1949.
(16) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
(17) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.
(18) The septally lesioned rabbits exhibited increases in fear reactions such as thumping, escape responses and vocalization when caught, rather than increased aggressiveness.
(19) For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria’s wealth comes from here,” said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.
(20) After an hour, Rob Kiernan thumped the ball across the six-yard box and Marc-Antoine Fortuné stabbed his shot over the bar.