(n.) A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clotting parameters: PTT, TT, PT, circulating platelets and TEG were normal.
(2) To test this possibility, we compared the usefulness of TEG, activated coagulation time (ACT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), and anti-Xa activity in 28 hemodialysis patients using both conventional unfractionated heparin (UFH) and LMH on separate dialysis procedures.
(3) The changes in the thromboelastogram (TEG), the activity and disintegration of prothrombin and proconvertin were studied in experiments on rats with thyrotoxicosis induced by giving thyroidin per os.
(4) Whole blood samples from six male Sprague-Dawley rats were diluted in vitro 3:1, 1:1 and 1:3 with normal saline solution, stroma-free hemoglobin (SFH) (7 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter), PHS (14 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter) or 5 percent bovine albumin (ALB) and tested with a thrombelastograph (TEG) for effects of hemodilution on coagulation.
(5) During surgery, abnormal bleeding was seen at surgical field, when TEG revealed remarkable hyper-fibrinolysis.
(6) Capillary resistance, platelet count, platelet adhesiveness and aggregation and thrombelastogramm (TEG) were studied in 40 healthy newborn infants (term eutrophic, preterm eutrophic and hypotropic).
(7) A significant negative correlation (r = -0.415, n = 35, P(0.02) was found between BMI and the overall thermal effect of glucose (sigma TEG) calculated as a sum of the post-glucose energy expenditure measured every 15 min during 2 h minus the baseline value.
(8) TEG results may not identify patients who have an increased bleeding time as a result of aspirin ingestion.
(9) Measured TEG variables (r, k, r+k times and maximum amplitude) were unaltered after aspirin although there was a significant prolongation of the bleeding time in both groups.
(10) The effects of several TCM preparations on CHD patients were observed by thromboelastography (TEG), prothrombin time, etc.
(11) The TEG monitor must however be available in the immediate vicinity of the labour ward and must be ready for use around the clock.
(12) Neither the fasting nor the post glucose BG concentrations correlated with sigma TEG.
(13) In our study, 1701 TEG's traces carried out in the last five years have been reviewed in order to evaluate the incidence of such patterns in both healthy subjects and in patients affected by different diseases.
(14) Past and "never" OC users had similar TEG values, suggesting reversibility, and noncontraceptive estrogens had a minimal effect on the TEG.
(15) We conclude that viscoelastic determinants of clot strength may be abnormal after CPB and that SCT and TEG are, therefore, more useful than RCT for the detection and management of coagulation defects associated with CPB.
(16) We therefore correlated LA and TEG assessments in 46 women who were either apparently healthy controls or who had abnormal LA levels with such conditions as endometriosis and repeated pregnancy wastage.
(17) Forty-two patients prospectively felt to be at high risk for excessive post-CPB bleeding had blood obtained for RCT, TEG, and SCT analysis before systemic heparinization and 30 min after protamine administration.
(18) Blood samples for TEG were obtained via cut-down at (B) 15 min (C) 30 min, and (D) 60 min after cut-down.
(19) The applied experimental model comprises the following: scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thromboelastography (TEG), formula: [see text] examining clotting systems by determining calcium, cephalincalcium times as well as the amount of blood platelets, biochemical examination.
(20) However, the amygdala is concerned with vision in the following ways: It receives neutral visual information highly processed in the visual cortex, invests the information with emotional and motivational significance through interactions with the cortical and subcortical systems of emotion and motivation, and then it returns the information coded to the visual areas to be re-processed; to be consciously perceived in area TEO, and to be meaningfully cognized, recognized and memorized in areas TE and TEG.
Tug
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
(v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
(v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
(v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.
(n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
(n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
(n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
(n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
(n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is patrolled for around six months of the year by a 35-year-old ocean-going tug which takes two days to cross the protected area.
(2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(3) The Guardian view on human rights in China: Liu Xiaobo is dying, free him | Editorial Read more Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in May, the Nobel peace laureate is at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war with western governments urging China to show “humanity” by letting him travel overseas for treatment and Beijing accusing the world of meddling in its “domestic affairs”.
(4) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
(5) John Muir, a giant of the conservation movement, summed up the importance of bees to the human race when he said: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” We harm them at our peril.
(6) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(7) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
(8) "The difference between me and the prime minister is …" – and here he went very strange, as if the tug of war in his synapses had caused permanent damage – "… when I lean across and say 'I love you, darling' I really mean it!"
(9) Under noncatalytic conditions, the fluorescence emission of TUG at 436 nm increased monotonically with Gal-Tase concentration, with a half-maximal response at approximately 4 microM.
(10) Whole nerve recordings from the posterior articular nerve revealed substantial activity from afferents in response to tugging on the ACL, although we could not differentiate receptors in the ACL from those in other periarticular tissues.
(11) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(12) The heartstrings were tugged still further before kick-off.
(13) It was a function of his immense enthusiasm and curiosity, but it was also, in its way, a literary playing out of the first principle of ecology: that everything is connected to everything else, or as John Muir put it, that "when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world".
(14) He criticized the Obama administration, and said he would stay a staunch moderate despite the tug-of-war of Republican primaries.
(15) Howard could be a wild man – as we know from his later work – and you feel recklessness and revolution as a wind tugging at him.
(16) Ukraine's only safe solution is for the lethal tug of war between east and west to end.
(17) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
(18) The former tug boat driver was working for a software firm in Houston when he was drafted into the operation.
(19) The capital exerts a huge cultural and political tug on Afghanistan .
(20) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.