(1) The syndrome of hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism (SHH) is not infrequent in adults with chronic renal failure caused by chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis, but it has been reported rarely in children.
(2) The concentration and ratio of AI conversion into AII were significantly increased in LRS rats (P < 0.05), but decreased in HH and SHH rats (more markedly in HH rats).
(3) Fractional potassium excretion was curvilinearly related to glomerular filtration rate (GFR), but in all three patients with SHH it was lower than expected for the level of GFR present.
(4) The effect of changes of sodium intake on serum and urinary electrolytes, plasma renin activity (PRA) and plasma aldosterone concentration (PA) was studied in five hyperkalemic patients with the syndrome of hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism (SHH).
(5) The %NRWT in the VS of HCM patients was significantly less than that in SHH patients.
(6) It is concluded that, at least in some patients with SHH, PRA and PA are volume-responsive and that considerable alterations of sodium intake have relatively little influence on serum electrolyte concentrations.
(7) All of the MD, %F and %D in the LV wall of HCM patients were significantly greater than those in SHH patients.
(8) We can see that there is good correlation between the SHH index values and the average hearing loss with frequencies of 0.5, 1.2 kHz in pancochlear perception hearing loss, whereas in patients with basocochlear perception hearing loss the SHHI cannot be calculated with the help of the puretone audiogram, nor will a widening of the frequency range up to 6 kHz lead to a better correlation between the average hearing loss and SHHI.
(9) Prostaglandin E2 excretion was also significantly related to GFR, and appeared appropriate in two patients with SHH.
(10) In comparison with normal control rats, RA in LRS and SHH rats showed an increasing trend, although no statistical significance appeared (P > 0.05).
(11) There three patients with SHH had lower basal and stimulated values of fractional potassium excretion than did patients with normokalemic chronic renal failure.
(12) The identification of three patients with SHH among 23 with chronic renal failure of unselected causes suggests that this entity is not rare in childhood.
(13) The %NRWT in the LV wall of HCM patients and SHH patients correlated inversely with the E.Td (r = -0.53, p less than 0.02 and r = -0.70, p less than 0.02, respectively), but not with the E.Ts or P.T.
(14) Metallica devotees might be excited about the unorthodox cassette reissue of the band’s 1982 demo tape – shh, don’t tell Cassette Store Day ’s organisers – while Flaming Lips fans will be able to pick up three early singles made available on coloured vinyl for the first time.
(15) The plasma renin activity (RA), the concentration and the ratio of angiotensin (AI) conversion into angiotensin II (AII), and arginine vasopressin (AVP) level were observed in Wistar rats with pulmonary hypertension (PH) induced by extracardiac left-to-right shunting (LRS), hypobaric hypoxia (HH) and shunting plus HH (SHH).
(16) It’s ‘shh, shh, we know what’s best for you, we’re going to get you out of this industry because you’re harming yourself and you don’t even know it’.
(17) For this purpose we compared the average hearing loss (500, 1000, 2000 Hz) of the puretone audiogram with the results obtained via the questionnaire developed by v. Wedel and Tegtmeier for assessing the social hearing handicap (SHH).
(18) To investigate the influence of wall hypertrophy and myocardial lesions on the regional contractile dynamics of the left ventricle (LV) in patients of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), we obtained the thicknesses of the ventricular septum (VS) and posterior wall at end-diastole and systole (E.Td, E.Ts) from echocardiograms made before death for 11 patients of HCM and 6 patients of secondary concentric hypertrophic heart disease (SHH), and the percent regional systolic wall thickening normalized by that of 15 normal controls (%NRWT).
(19) AVP increased significantly in LRS rats, and also showed an increasing trend in HH and SHH, but no significance was found (P > 0.05).
(20) Plasma prolactin levels were reduced in both heat-exposed groups (ShH and PxH) but pituitary prolactin was increased in the pinealectomized groups irrespective of ambient temperature (21 or 34 degrees C).
Silence
Definition:
(n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
(n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
(n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
(n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
(n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.
(interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
(v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
(v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.
(v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
(v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
(4) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
(5) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
(6) In addition, he describes a type of transference interpretation that is better not made, and emphasizes the transference value of silence on the part of the analyst at certain crucial moments in the analysis.
(7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(8) Transient ischemic electrical silence with Q waves in the absence of MI is a rare phenomenon and affects the anterior leads much more commonly than the inferior leads.
(9) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
(10) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
(11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
(12) 1:109-124, 1983) suggested that the insertion might have been selected to silence a disadvantageous bglR+ allele.
(13) He criticised attempts to create “safe spaces” by silencing controversial speakers such as Germaine Greer, who was recently targeted by students at the University of Cardiff for her position on transgender women.
(14) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(15) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
(16) Our data indicate that these elements exert their effect irrespective of orientation and position, suggesting that they are silencers.
(17) The silence about Ji's fate was broken by his former boss, Nanjing party secretary Yang Weize.
(18) • The News of the World was ordered to hand over details of the secret agreement which it struck with Gordon Taylor in the earlier case as well agreements it has made withMulcaire which are alleged to have bought his silence.
(19) But the case is widely seen as a means of silencing the man who has become Putin's loudest critic.
(20) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.