(n.) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(2) Many thoracic motoneurons were able to survive up to posthatching stages following transplantation.
(3) A rare case of an extradural brucellosis granuloma in the thoracic region is presented.
(4) The highest antishock effect of dopamine is reached when cardiac output fraction addressed to thoracic region vitals is supported by dopamine on the 43-45% level.
(5) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(6) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
(7) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
(8) Extrapolating animal data to the neonates, we found the thoracic segment length recommended (the average of 29% of body length and electrode distance) to be accurate.
(9) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
(10) We document four patients, including two sibs, with asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy and mild congenital hydrocephalus.
(11) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
(12) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
(13) However, the pattern in the central nervous system (CNS) and mesoderm is further restricted; the major expression located in the labial neuromere of the CNS and the mesoderm of the first thoracic segment.
(14) Patients with thoracic or thoracoabdominal aneurysms were more likely to have neurologic complications than those with abdominal aneurysms.
(15) Systematic treatment of aberrant subclavian arteries should perhaps be considered when it can be performed during thoracic surgery.
(16) The other 3 dogs died or were euthanatized, and the effect of stopping thoracic drainage could not be evaluated.
(17) At thoracic levels occasional neurons of the intermediolateral column cell group were NGF receptor positive.
(18) A new centrifugal pump (Sarns), originally designed for ventricular assist, was successfully used in two patients during repair of traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta.
(19) All the vertebrae were agenetic below the thoracic segments in the other rat fetus.
(20) We tried to determine alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes involved in noradrenaline-induced contractions of rat thoracic aorta and dog carotid artery.
Thoracotomy
Definition:
(n.) The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the bilateral lung lesions were removed through a median sternotomy so as to avoid staged bilateral thoracotomy.
(2) Treatment was always surgical, with the following procedures: Laparotomy and chest drainage tube in 7 cases (21%), thoracotomy in 12 cases (36%) and a combined thoracoabdominal approach in 14 (43%).
(3) Ventricular fibrillation was then induced and, after predetermined downtimes ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, thoracotomy was performed, and open-chest bimanual cardiac massage was started.
(4) Muscle sparing thoracotomy can be used safely for most thoracic procedures and we believe it permits easier pain control and early preservation of full shoulder motion.
(5) We report a case of large tracheal (cervical thoracic) rupture after using an endotracheal tube, which needed to be repaired via a double surgical approach: cervicotomy and right thoracotomy.
(6) It is however, possible to seek the role of the anesthetic, the thoracotomy or the extracorporeal circulation itself and its load, quite independent of prior changes due to decompensation or not of the congenital heart disease, whether or not it has been treated.
(7) We reached the following conclusions: The incidence of operative phrenic nerve injury in infants undergoing lateral thoracotomy, particularly for Blalock-Taussig shunt, is higher than generally appreciated; plication is a safe procedure as performed by either an abdominal or thoracic approach; failure to achieve extubation within a week of plication is an ominous prognostic sign; mortality in patients with eventration in the presence of major associated conditions may be high despite plication.
(8) The interaction of histamine (Hist) and acetylcholine (ACh) on human isolated bronchial smooth muscle (HIBSM) contraction, and the influence of the epithelium, was assessed using HIBSM obtained from 15 patients undergoing thoracotomy.
(9) In all patients the oesophageal resection was performed transhiatally without thoracotomy with blunt dissection.
(10) In some cases this has led to the misdiagnosis of mediastinal pathology and an unnecessary thoracotomy.
(11) In second group after thoracotomy the lungs were stabilized with gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue.
(12) Emergency center thoracotomy was performed at our facility on 389 patients from 1984 through 1989.
(13) The operations were performed after thoracotomy on the working closed heart.
(14) A double-blind randomised study was performed to investigate the effect of pH adjustment of bupivacaine, with adrenaline 1:200,000, on the duration of block and pain relief after intercostal nerve blockade following thoracotomy.
(15) The following particular benefits are obtainable from the method: no need for thoracotomy; local anesthesia applicable to 65% of all cases; 30 mm average time of intervention; only moderate invasiveness to the patients; only 7 days of hospitalization; good cost-benefit ratio.
(16) A retrospective review of 16 consecutive cases of squamous carcinoma of the hypopharynx treated by pharyngo-laryngo-oesophagectomy (PLO) and gastric transposition with a thoracotomy as part of the surgical technique is presented.
(17) Thoracotomy revealed a fibro-angio-myxoma attached to the right side of the interatrial septum, and it was removed in toto.
(18) Thoracotomy for aspergilloma was followed by bronchopleural fistula in one of two cases--approximately the ratio found in the literature.
(19) The technique causes considerably less pain and interference with respiratory function postoperatively than does conventional thoracotomy.
(20) The diagnosis was made on specimens obtained from three patients by open thoracotomy.