(a.) Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Approximately half were vehicular crash victims and 78% were men.
(2) All the patients sustained their knee ligament injury in sporting activities except one patient who was involved in a motor vehicular accident.
(3) We found that growth of the EMS system, as measured by the cumulative number of EMT's trained, correlated strongly with the decline in prehospital (r = 0.95; p less than 0.001), in-hospital (r = 0.84; p less than 0.001), total (r = 0.95; p less than 0.001), vehicular (r = 0.86; p less than 0.001), and nonvehicular (r = 0.93; p less than 0.001) trauma deaths.
(4) Farm, industrial, and vehicular accidents accounted for 80% of the cases.
(5) Death on the X-ray table while allowing persistence of hypovolemia was the common denominator in four of the five victims who died of ruptured spleens in the emergency departments, after having arrived alive following vehicular trauma.
(6) Those studied were 71.7% men, 77.4% whites, 63.2% vehicular trauma victims, 11.2% assault victims, and 25.7% other trauma victims.
(7) The best chance for fetal survival is to ensure maternal survival, so awareness of the types of injuries and their presentation after vehicular trauma is of the utmost importance.
(8) The increased use of child safety seats and seat belt restraints has significantly reduced the incidence of severe head injuries associated with motor vehicular accidents.
(9) Such additives would have to be stable in vehicular cooling systems and not adversely affect the functional aspects of AF performance.
(10) Epidemiological aspects manifested in vehicular accidents in New Delhi during the year 1983-84 are illustrated here.
(11) The NYPD arrested 11 protesters on Saturday, charging most of them with disorderly conduct, obstructing vehicular traffic and failing to disperse.
(12) We report a case of isolated complete azygos vein transection as a result of blunt motor vehicular trauma.
(13) In forty patients treated at The University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals for fifty-two fractures of forty-one scapulae from 1961 through 1973, most of the fractures were the result of vehicular accidents.
(14) Space folk call these EVAs (short for extra-vehicular activity), but it is clearly the glamour job – and it excites the astronauts, who experience perhaps the most wondrous view that is ever experienced by anyone.
(15) Vehicular accidents accounted for 36% of cervical spine radiographic abnormalities, and sports or playground accidents accounted for an additional 36%.
(16) Most pediatric trauma is associated with vehicular and pedestrian accidents.
(17) Whether these associated injuries would have been neglected had laparotomy for splenic trauma not been performed is uncertain, and so non-operative management of splenic trauma remains contentious, particularly in cases following vehicular accidents.
(18) A little unfair – vindictive, even – as he's never insisted on driving, is happy to play the passive role in our vehicular relationship and I have far more road miles under my belt.
(19) The criteria used by medical examiners for vehicular suicide are also discussed.
(20) Breakdown of the cases into various modes of death showed that homicides, vehicular accidents, and suicides predominated.
Vesicular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.
(a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.
(a.) Having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a vesicular body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(2) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(3) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
(4) H-2b mice primed with the wildtype of vesicular stomatitis virus serotype Indiana (VSV-IND wt) mount an in vitro measurable cytotoxic response against the nucleoprotein (NP) of VSV-IND and are protected against a challenge infection with a vaccinia-VSV recombinant virus expressing the NP of VSV-IND (vacc-IND-NP).
(5) A temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), tsG31, produces a prolonged central nervous system disease in mice with pathological features similar to those of slow viral diseases.
(6) After clinical examination and semen analysis, we studied 4100 patients by scrotal US with sector mechanical (7.5 MHz) probe with water bag and by transrectal US for prostatic vesicular region evaluation with 5-6.5 MHz linear probe (lately we used biplanar probe).
(7) It has been shown previously that oligodendrocytes, which synthesize and maintain myelin in the central nervous system (CNS), are susceptible to attack by homologous complement and that injury may be reversible when lysis is resisted by vesicular removal of membrane attack complexes.
(8) We analyzed cell extracts from BHK(21) cells infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and rabies virus for in vitro RNA polymerase activity.
(9) Translation of mRNA encoding vesicular stomatitis virus envelope glycoprotein G by as membrane-free ribosomal extract obtained from HeLa cells yielded a nonglycosylated protein (G1 (Mr 63,000).
(10) The effect of the enzyme on multiplication of the viruses of vesicular stomatitis, Newcastle and cariolovaccine diseases was investigated.
(11) Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) is a disease of unknown etiology presenting as symmetrical, vesicular hand and foot dermatitis.
(12) Some of the parallel fibers, which display presynaptic vesicular grids, established synaptic contact with stellate cells and the dendritic spines of the few Purkinje cells that survived the treatment.
(13) But one component of glutamate release from neurons is calcium-independent, suggesting a non-vesicular release that may be due to a reversal of glutamate uptake.
(14) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.
(15) In an attempt to elucidate the role of the 5'-terminal 7-methylguanosine residue in translation of mammalian mRNAs, vesicular stomatitis virus (VS virus), and reovirus mRNAs containing and lacking this residue, and also Qbeta RNA, were translated in cell-free extracts from reticulocytes and wheat germ under a variety of ionic conditions.
(16) Complete transcripts of the genome of vesicular stomatitis virus Indiana strain have been used to hybridize to virion RNA to determine if there is RNA sequence homology among these viruses.
(17) The data in combination with the morphological observations support the hypothesis of vesicular release of transmitter and provide new evidence as to rates and sites for filling of vesicles.
(18) 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.
(19) Where basement membrane and perivascular clefts were not yet inundated with HRP, sites of vesicular emptying of HRP at the tissue front were identified.
(20) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.