(v. i.) Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
(v. i.) Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
(n.) An indefinite expanse.
(v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.
(n.) A wandering; a vagary.
Example Sentences:
(1) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
(2) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
(3) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
(4) What are New York values?” he asked the crowd, alluding to Cruz’s vague denigration of those “liberal” values in a January debate.
(5) Chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder in which the abnormality in cellular immunity has remained only vaguely defined.
(6) The family physician who sees many children with vague abdominal pain must include peptic ulcer disease in the differential diagnosis.
(7) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
(8) The system was "flawed" and the rules were "vague".
(9) The Japanese preferred alternative was to give a vague alternative diagnosis such as neurasthenia.
(10) Veering between a patronising video , a vague report and impenetrable financial data does not amount to openness and accountability.
(11) "In addition, the Department for Communities and Local Government [DCLG] has failed to provide the council with any cost estimates for the audit apart from the vague statement that costs are likely to be 'within £1m'.
(12) The diagnosis of leptospirosis is often difficult to make because of vague and mild symptoms.
(13) Since the day of action was announced, there has been a new mood in the group; some people talk somewhat vaguely about Tunisia and Egypt; mass protest is in the air.
(14) A case is reported where pneumoperitoneum developed after the surgical procedure with vague abdominal symptoms accompanied by fever and leukocytosis.
(15) This feature of ILC may also help explain why tumors may be palpable as areas of vague induration or thickening rather than as discrete masses.
(16) A 57-year-old man was admitted with the complaints of vague headache and left upper limb numbness.
(17) Polling suggests that people prefer the Conservatives on immigration because they expect them to be "tougher" in some vague, generic sense, rather than because they believe in their policies.
(18) As biological discharge phenomena evolve into vague psychological awareness, such an infant does not attain a sense of well-being, but rather attains a sense of "not-well-being" (Joffe and Sandler, 1965) which remains continuous or can be triggered--kindled--by any reactivating constellation, and the object is experienced as a source of unpleasure.
(19) The only time I see him in even vague bad humour is when a wardrobe assistant tries to neaten a dancer's hair.
(20) The concept of fuzzy sets was chosen for its ability to represent classes of objects that are vaguely described from the measured data.
Vagus
Definition:
(a.) Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.
(n.) The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) The high ED50 immediately after vagotomy is ascribed to the sudden fall in the subthreshold release of acetylcholine previously supplied by the intact vagus.
(3) The distribution and ultrastructure of lipopigments in the rat sympathetic, vagus and spinal ganglion neurons were studied in vivo and in vitro using fluorescence and electron microscopy.
(4) In 3 animals both vagus nerves were stimulated simultaneously.
(5) The stimulation induced hypotension and decreased the heart rate, both effects being abolished by cutting the right cardiac branch of the vagus.
(6) Our results indicated that vagal afferent activity directly or indirectly influences the activity of neurons in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMNV).
(7) The upper plateau (maximum tachycardia in response to blood pressure reduction) and lower plateau (maximum bradycardia in response to blood pressure elevation) are mainly mediated by the cardiac sympathetics and vagus, respectively.
(8) Stimulation of the carotid body chemoreceptors with cyanide in anaesthetized rabbits usually causes a deep breath or gasp, but only if the vagus nerves are intact.
(9) The retrograde transport of receptor-bound opiate was markedly enhanced in the vagus nerves of rats housed for 25 days in an atmosphere of ethanol vapor.
(10) The therapeutical influence of bilateral vagus blockade was tested in these last animals.
(11) IR-CGRP was localized in a small number (approximately 5%) of myelinated fibers and approximately 50% of unmyelinated fibers of the vagus.
(12) Use of the endoscopic Congo red test provides physiologic evidence that vagus secretory nerve fibers traverse the right and left gastroepiploic nerves, leading us to believe that the gastroepiploic nerves should be routinely divided during proximal gastric vagotomy.
(13) The hepatic vagus nerve was acutely sectioned or stimulated electrically in separate experiments in rats.
(14) Analysis of the functional dependence between the P--S interval (atrial wave of the ECG--moment of vagus stimulation) and the P--P interval showed periodical alterations in pacemaker sensitivity to the effect of the vagus during each cardiac cycle.
(15) During electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve supply to the isolated perfused pig pancreas, a synchronous and approximately equimolar release of immunoreactive PHI and VIP was observed.
(16) On the average, 8.65 fiber bundles of the vagus nerve leave the retro-olivary area.
(17) Labeled neurons were also located within the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve.
(18) Nine groups of experiments were conducted on 120 rats and 55 dogs to study the morphological changes and the density of cholinergic nerve fibres in the intramural nerve apparatus of the stomach after cooling of the vagus nerves at various temperatures and time regimens of the exposure (-35-45 degrees, -70-80 degrees for 2-3 sec., 15 sec in one, two, and three exposures).
(19) The following types and frequencies of neoplasms of the vagus nerve were noted: paragangliomas, 50%; neurilemmomas, 31%; neurofibromas, 14%; and neurofibrosarcomas, 6%.
(20) Neurons that mediated the increase in venular permeability had their cells bodies in the jugular (superior sensory) ganglion of the vagus nerve or rostral portion of the nodose (inferior sensory) ganglion.