(n.) A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter; as, a sphincter muscle.
Example Sentences:
(1) We suggest that neuronal PACAP may serve to modulate motor activity and secretion in the lower esophageal sphincter region.
(2) Although it is known that the sphincter of Oddi exhibits a myoelectric response to intraluminal nutrients, the effect of specific dietary components has not been well characterized.
(3) Fourteen patients were examined one to four years after cricopharyngeal myotomy that had been carried out because of dysfunction of the pharyngo-esophageal sphincter.
(4) The paper postulates that 'anal or sphincter defensiveness' is one of the precursors of the repression barrier.
(5) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
(6) 12 children (38%) showed modifications of bladder-sphincter equilibrium, without acquiring socially sufficient continence.
(7) We found that in the patient's view an adequate result requires establishment of a proper lip sphincter--either by restoring muscular tone, or by creating an anatomical framework to which can be added either a motor unit or stabilization to aid the opposite intact muscle.
(8) Extensive drainage procedures were avoided to preserve the anal sphincter.
(9) Changes in pupil size indicated a substantial cholinergic effect on the iridal sphincter musculature.
(10) The dumping-syndrome is a severe complication of gastric surgery after operations which destroy or weaken the sphincter mechanism of the pylorus.
(11) This appears to be caused by persistent reflux of gastric juice across a mechanically defective lower esophageal sphincter.
(12) During phase III of the interdigestive period maximal frequency of sphincter of Oddi phasic contractions blocks bile flow into the duodenum.
(13) Preliminary electromyography showed the external sphincter to be displaced from the anus in nine patients.
(14) Using concurrent videoendoscopy and manometry, glottal and upper esophageal sphincter (UES) responses to abrupt esophageal distention by air injection (10-60 mL) and balloon distention (1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 cm) were recorded simultaneously.
(15) Multiple factors contribute to the production of esophagitis in gastroesophageal reflux (GER), but the respective roles of esophageal (i. e. lower esophageal sphincter (LES) tone, peristalsis) and gastric factors (i. e. acid secretion and gastric emptying) are not well known.
(16) Pyloric sphincter pressure was assessed with water-perfused polyvinyl tubes.
(17) The frequent occurrence of delayed drainage in these asymptomatic post-cholecystectomy volunteers challenges the validity of the 45-min delayed drainage criterion for sphincter of Oddi dysfunction.
(18) Concurrent sphincteric incontinence and organic impotence are not uncommon; they can be caused by many congenital and acquired conditions.
(19) In both normals and patients, amplitude and duration of contractions were more at 5 cm than at 10 cm above the lower esophageal sphincter.
(20) This improvement in continence was not associated with any change in sphincter pressures or in the continence to rectally infused saline but was associated with significant improvements in rectal sensation.
Sphinx
Definition:
(n.) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
(n.) On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
(n.) Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
(n.) The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes the distribution of histamine-like immunoreactivity in the midbrain and suboesophageal ganglion of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta.
(2) The influence of position (sphinx, lateral, supine), surfactant depletion, and different positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on functional residual capacity (FRC), series dead space (VdS) and compliance of the respiratory system (Crs) were evaluated in five dogs.
(3) Wild-caught female C. silacea were allowed to feed to repletion on mandrills, (Mandrillus sphinx), which were microfilaremic with human L. loa or on uninfected laboratory rats.
(4) Cynopterus sphinx breeds twice annually in quick succession at Varanasi.
(5) We have characterized the responses and structure of olfactory descending neurons (DNs) that reside in the protocerebrum (PC) of the brain of male sphinx moths Manduca sexta and project toward thoracic ganglia.
(6) FRC and ventilation homogeneity were improved in the sphinx position (prone position with upright head).
(7) This paper presents Sphinx, an expert system for computer-aided diagnosis in diabetes therapeutic.
(8) Like the sphinx without a secret then, this was a PBR without a theme.
(9) Hunt said Miliband's support for the IPPR report showed a "substantive response" to Cameron, who was dismissed by Michael Gove's former aide as a "sphinx without a riddle" .
(10) Desperate to lure outsiders to this far-flung, sparsely populated region, officials have ordered the construction of a replica of the Great Sphinx of Egypt ; the Parthenon ; Beijing’s Summer Palace and Forbidden City, and even of a stretch of the Great Wall of China.
(11) A comparison of the primary structures of the Mandrill hemoglobin chains with those of other species of the Cercopithecidae family shows that Mandrillus sphinx should be placed between Cercopithecus and Macaca on one side and Papio, Theropithecus and Cercocebus on the other.
(12) In the optic lobes (OLs) of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta, 300-350 neurons per hemisphere are immunoreactive with an antiserotonin antiserum.
(13) In particular, we compared the nucleotide sequences of whole genomes, gene region by gene region, between a given pair of viruses, including four types of SIVs--isolated from mandrills (Papio sphinx), African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops), sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)--as well as HIVs.
(14) A long-faced Norseman with a touch of the archetypal brooding Scandinavian (as well as a hint of the Sphinx), Nansen was born near Christiania, the former name of Oslo, in 1861, and in the course of a tumultuous life became an outstanding scientist, diplomat and humanitarian as well as an explorer.
(15) The origin and orientation of the heart nerves in Sphinx ligustri and Ephestia kuehniella were investigated by scanning electron microscopy using a special technique which involved pinning the dissected specimens on a stabilizing metal pad.
(16) A single serotonin-immunoreactive neuron in the antennal lobe (AL) of the brain of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta is present in larval, pupal, and adult stages.
(17) The heart and alary muscles in Sphinx particularly their caudal extremity were also examined by transmission electron microscopy.
(18) A mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) and 6 cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascularis) were infected by subcutaneous injection of third-stage larvae of human L. loa from Gabon.
(19) Behind is a statue of the sphinx, a menacing portent of what was to come.
(20) She is known as the sphinx of Indian politics, the mysterious widow who rose to lead a nation of 1.14 billion people.