(n.) A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of epidermoid tumor presenting with a painful tic convulsif was reported.
(2) This treatment was given to 11 patients with Huntington's chorea (ChH), 4 with faciolingual dyskinesis (DFL), 3 with torticollis spasmodicus (TS), 3 with maladie des tics (MT) and 8 with dyskinesia following treatment with L-dopa (MP).
(3) The highest predictive values for the exclusion of TiC are shown by inconspicuous concentration capacity accompanied by normal ammonia excretion, total acid excretion, water diuresis, free water clearance or urine dilution capacity.
(4) In an effort to test this hypothesis, the relationships between organism concentrations and water chemistry parameters that have the potential to alter Cd availability including pH, calcium (Ca), total organic carbon (TOC) and total inorganic carbon (TIC) were examined.
(5) Tics are modified by multiple psychological contents (aggressive or sexual impulses, imitation of others) which tend to become independent of their origin.
(6) On the basis of the achieved results the author comes to the conclusion that in the pathogenesis of a pseudoneurotic tic an important role is being played by a premorbid insufficiency of the motor analyzer.
(7) The authors hypothesize that neurotransmitter abnormalities existing in Down's syndrome may predispose such individuals to basal ganglia dysfunction and the subsequent development of tics.
(8) All tics subsided before the age of 20 years, only to recur after the age of 60 years, once again including both motor and vocal tics that changed in location and severity slowly over time.
(9) The observation of a young north african afflicted with a tic disorder suggests an underlying meaning in the apparently confused motoric discharges, thanks to psychodrama and to ethnopsychoanalytic consultations with the family.
(10) Only PIP or TIC + SUL or TAZ were able to inhibit at least 90% of tested strains.
(11) Five of our 7 patients had a positive family history of tics, and 2 a confirmed family history of gout.
(12) When diagnostic criteria were broadened to include any tics in co-twins, concordance rates were 77% and 23% for MZ and DZ pairs, respectively.
(13) Associated psychopathology was common: 38% received an anxiety disorder diagnosis; 29% received a mood disorder diagnosis; tics were observed in 24%.
(14) Pharmacological intervention, using clonidine, also did not reduce tic frequency.
(15) Further there are associations between a family history of tics and obsessive compulsive disorder in the subsequent generation.
(16) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(17) The activity of TIC against Bacteroides fragilis was improved up to 64-fold by clavulanic acid, with a definite but less pronounced effect on the non-fragilis Bacteroides species.
(18) The tic occurred 40 to 50 times per minute on its peak at age 16.
(19) In a direct interview study, the perinatal experiences of 31 TS patients were compiled in an effort to identify risk factors associated with tic severity.
(20) The majority of patients with tic douloureux are successfully treated by pharmacotherapy with phenytoin or carbamazepine.
Tid
Definition:
(a.) Tender; soft; nice; -- now only used in tidbit.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the significantly lower relative bioavailabilities for the prolonged-action hydroxymethylnitrofurantoin formulations suggest that Urfadyn PL 100 mg bid and Uridurine 100 mg tid are not pharmacokinetically equivalent to Furadantine MC.
(2) The membrane-reactive, photoactivatable probe 125I-TID [3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl)-3H-diazirine] was found to label the M protein of vesicular stomatitis virus about 40% as much as G protein in intact virions, in agreement with labeling studies with other probes.
(3) The B-cell activity as measured by the anti-dinitrophenyl (DNP) antibody responses to DNP-thymus-independent carriers (TID) was not impaired in tumor-bearing mice as compared with normal mice, whereas the anti-DNP antibody response to DNP-thymus-dependent carriers (TD) and the development of helper T-cell activity to TD were markedly suppressed in tumor-bearing animals or mice pretreated with cell-free cancerous ascitic fluid.
(4) Kinetic profiles were developed in 12 elderly patients (age range: 72-81 yr) after single (12.5 mg) dose and multiple oral dosages (12.5 mg tid for 17 days).
(5) Using [125I]TID-labelled mf-AChE as substrate, radiolabelled diradylglycerol was obtained with both peak activities.
(6) The acute effects of oral enoximone on rest and exercise hemodynamics, ejection fraction, aerobic metabolism, exercise capacity, and arrhythmias were studied in 11 patients with moderate to moderately severe dilative cardiomyopathy after 8 days of enoximone (100 mg tid) in addition to baseline therapy (diuretics and digitalis).
(7) Mean peak serum netilmicin concentration in the od group was approximately two-fold greater than that in the tid group; mean trough serum netilmicin concentrations were similar for the two groups.
(8) A patient presenting a recurrent episode of pulmonary leiomyomatosis has been treated with the LH-RH agonist buserelin at a dosage of 200 micrograms tid SC for 7 days, then 500 micrograms SC daily for a total period of 6 months.
(9) Membrane proteins were radio-iodinated in their hydrophobic cores with the hydrophobic photoactivatable reagent 3 (trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl) diazirine (TID).
(10) Plasma concentrations of indomethacin have been studied in 5 healthy volunteers after single and multiple doses (25 mg intravenously [iv], 25, 50, and 100 mg orally, 100 mg rectally, and 25 mg three times daily [tid].
(11) The streptokinase titrated initial dose (TID) was estimated in 31 2 patients consecutively admitted to a medical department in Oslo.
(12) Furthermore, increasing concentrations of NaCl, decrease the labeling of apo-alpha-lactalbumin with [125I]TID.
(13) Comparable amounts of TID per mg of protein were incorporated into each subunit.
(14) C9 was assembled on liposomes and after photoactivation, several labeled and non-labeled peptides, obtained by chemical and enzymatic cleavage or the 125I-TID-labeled C9, were analyzed.
(15) It is proposed that caution should be applied in the interpretation of [125I]TID labeling patterns of the yeast plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase and that new and diverse approaches should be developed to provide a more definitive topology model.
(16) The captopril group was administered 25 mg tid and increased to 100 mg tid, while the enalapril group began with 5 mg bid and increased to 20 mg bid, depending on the patient's blood pressure (BP) response.
(17) Labeling of PI-PLC-resistant E DAF with 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]-iodophenyl)-diazirine ([125I]TID) and TLC analysis of nitrous acid deamination anchor fragments showed a predominant phospholipid species with less polar migration than the 125I-TID-labeled PI.
(18) Patients were randomly assigned to receive either placebo or 10, 25 or 50 mg of encainide 3 times daily (tid) for 2 weeks.
(19) Of special interest is the observation that when complete adjuvant containing increasing amounts of mycobacterial components was administered in conjunction with antigen very early in the tolerance induction phase 5 days after TID, it appears to prevent tolerance production.
(20) After randomization 19 treated with L started with 20 or 40 mg at night according to baseline cholesterol under or above 300 respectively and 20 with B received 200 mg tid.