(a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(2) Preliminary rhythmic somatic stimulation has a predominantly facilitating effect on EPs appearing in response to tonal stimuli in the areas A1, S2, S1.
(3) Autopsy revealed serious somatic diseases (stenosis of the ileum in two cases and brain tumor in one); their symptoms had been largely overlapped by those of anorexia nervosa.
(4) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(5) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
(6) Somatic and functional antigens of Dictyocaulus filaria were comparatively studied by means of disk electrophoresis.
(7) Radiation hybrid mapping is a somatic cell technique for ordering human loci along a chromosome and estimating the physical distance between adjacent loci.
(8) Using molecular probes to examine somatic cell lines and recombinant inbred and congenic strains of mice, we have re-evaluated these linkage relationships.
(9) A close similarity was evident between variation in ATP and somatic cell count, except during the first 10 d after parturition when the variation in ATP was more pronounced.
(10) Proposed models for the inheritance of locus-specific methylation phenotypes in somatic cells include those in which there is stable inheritance of a methylation pattern such that all cells contain a similarly methylated locus, as well as models in which the inheritance of methylation can be variable.
(11) Using morhological, neurohistological and histochemical methods the author studied different areas and anatomical structures of the central and peripheral somatic and vegetative nervous system in 4 patients who had died during different periods of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27, 48, 51, and 60.
(12) Anxiety, depression, and somatization were greater in RAP mothers than well mothers.
(13) It has been held in contrast to the pseudo-stemline concept that these cells in general, have the essential genes in common and are responsible for the genetic make-up of this cell line and constitute together the stemline of this somatic cell population.
(14) The alpha cells had large somatic and dendritic fields.
(15) Where the PGCs bulge out into the coelomic cavity, they stretch the somatic cell covering to a thin, cytoplasmic layer.
(16) Southern blotting experiments using somatic cell hybrids containing either the human chromosome 3 or the X chromosome confirm the presence of multiple dispersed RTVL-H sequences on these two chromosomes.
(17) The mapping of the gene coding for human aldolase C has been studied using a specific cDNA probe and genomic blots from a panel of human-hamster somatic cell hybrids.
(18) The amount of spinal visceral afferences is relatively small (only 1.5-2.5% of all somatic spinal afferences).
(19) Retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase and immunocytochemical visualization of glutamate (Glu) were combined to investigate the neurotransmitter used by cortico-cortical neurons in the first (SI) and second (SII) somatic sensory areas of macaque monkeys.
(20) Somatic changes included reduced wool growth, delayed osseous development in the limbs (X-ray assessment) a reduced heart weight (39.1%) and an increased pituitary weight (48.1%).
Visceral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
(a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(2) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
(3) Both genes are expressed in the fetal liver, gut, and visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and are repressed shortly after birth in the liver and gut.
(4) The prognosis of vascular amyloidosis seems to be more favourable than that of the classical visceral types.
(5) The amount of spinal visceral afferences is relatively small (only 1.5-2.5% of all somatic spinal afferences).
(6) Staging classifications are being refined to reflect increasing knowledge of important prognostic indicators, e.g., absence or presence of lymph node involvement, pattern of lymph node involvement, and absence or presence of visceral disease.
(7) Cadmium, anti-visceral yolk sac antibody (AVYS) and trypan blue all inhibited pinocytosis in a concentration-dependent fashion when added to the culture medium, although at low concentrations trypan blue was slightly stimulatory.
(8) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(9) Khera (1973, 1975, 1977) reported that administration of ETU to pregnant rats could induce anomalies in the visceral organs and the central nervous system of fetuses in food toxicology.
(10) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(11) Discriminant analysis of eleven currently utilized blood markers of the phlogistic reaction and of the nutritional status has afforded the selection of the two most reliable acute-phase reactants (orosomucoid and C-reactive protein) and visceral proteins (albumin and prealbumin).
(12) Seventy-seven patients with metastases confined to skeleton and 73 patients bearing visceral-only disease were identified.
(13) It has become clear that a number of neuropeptides are found in sensory nerves, some of which have been identified in visceral afferents.
(14) Specificity of the Dot-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Dot-ELISA) for visceral leishmaniasis was significantly improved through the use of enzyme-conjugated antisera specific for IgG heavy chains.
(15) To our knowledge, this is the second report of myelitis in the course of visceral larva migrans.
(16) Cryosurgery and large-size excision are therapeutic steps of good palliative effectiveness in the treatment of skinmetastasised melanoblastoma, provided that no visceral metastasation has taken place.
(17) The autonomous-visceral pathology observed in cases of cervical injuries can be attributed to the direct effect of the trauma upon the segmental innervation appratus of the heart, diaphragm, thorax.
(18) The monkey was dissected one year after inoculation, no evidence of visceral involvement was noted.
(19) Using alkaline phosphatase as a marker for germ cells, it was shown that these cells are absent in the 12-day-old visceral yolk sac examined before and after organ culture.
(20) Visceral involvement is common, may follow or precede the cutaneous involvement and rarely, may be the only manifestation of the disease.