(v. t.) To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
(v. t.) To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
(v. t.) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
(v. i.) To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
(v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
(v. i.) To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.
(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) The intensity changes seen for alpha-fucose were found to follow a reversible first-order rate-equation and the rate constants obtained from different vibrational bands were found to be consistent among themselves and in reasonable agreement with those obtained by other techniques.
(4) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
(5) The response of isolated muscle tissue of white rats to low-frequency vibration has been studied.
(6) The "random coil" conformational problem is examined by comparison of vibrational CD (VCD) spectra of various polypeptide model systems with that of proline oligomers [(Pro)n] and poly(L-proline).
(7) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(8) Additionally, by ultrasonic vibration of tissues that had been subjected to prolonged osmium fixation, the epithelium was removed and such microdissected membranes similarly were examined.
(9) The ability of a mathematical model to evaluate the effects of two different pain modulating procedures (partial nerve block and vibration) on acute experimental pulpal pain was studied.
(10) The only likely cause for the pathological vascular findings in our patient was an exposure to vibration due to excessive off-street motorcycle driving.
(11) Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy with 0.5-ps resolution is used to track the evolution of the CO stretching vibration after visible photoexcitation of carboxyhemoglobin in water at room temperature.
(12) Biodynamic stressors such as acceleration, vibration, heat, and cold can affect pilot performance.
(13) There have been shown many changes, which took place in the various anatomic-physiological formations of the brain, and evaluated their significance in organism's responses to the effects of ionizing and nonionizing radiation, hyperoxia, hypoxia, accelerations, vibrations and combined effects of some of those factors.
(14) Tetrapolar rheovasography was used to medically examine 54 riveters, of equal age and duration of work, who were exposed to the complex action of low-intensity vibration and noise.
(15) A vibration-rotation-tunneling band of the perdeuterated cluster has been measured near 89.6 wave numbers by tunable far infrared laser absorption spectroscopy.
(16) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
(17) Our experiments with monkeys gave typical resonance curves for the transmission of vibration of the bulbi with maxima between 25 and 31.5 Hz.
(18) Altering the frequency of vibration did not alter the distribution of tremor frequencies.
(19) Superficial cutaneous stimulation of the dorsal side of the forearm during tendon vibration noticeably decreased the P1 peaks in both types of motor units.
(20) A survey is given of the literature on the sensitivity of the vestibular system to audio-frequency sound and vibration in animals.
Vibratory
Definition:
(a.) Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, direct intracellular injection of ATP was found to block the IPSP evoked by vibratory stimulation.
(2) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
(3) Since it is known that the P channel has the capacity to summate vibratory stimuli temporally within the central nervous system, the effect should also be present in the physiological results.
(4) Crossed-extension responses in fusimotor activity unaccompanied by contraction of the gross muscle were also succeeded by an elevation in sensory discharge and an increased sensitivity to a vibratory stimulus applied to the tendon.
(5) The placebo effect of vibratory stimulation was studied in 72 patients with chronic pain syndromes in a double-blind crossover trial using a vibrator and a "placebo unit".
(6) Objective measurements of vocal jitter, shimmer, and signal to noise ratio were done to assess changes in the vibratory patterns, and analysis of data from 12 patients revealed improved glottic function postoperatively.
(7) The fetal heart rate response was recorded for both vibratory acoustic stimulation and fetal scalp puncture.
(8) In these experiments non-associative learning in C. elegans was investigated by observing changes in reversal reflex response amplitude to a mechanical vibratory stimulus.
(9) The follow-up of 70 patients with trauma-related locomotor disorders proved that breathing exercises, vibratory massage, chest heparin electrophoresis, drug inhalations early after the injury can be effective in prevention and treatment of pulmonary complications.
(10) It was developed on the basis of studies into the accumulation of aerosols of different makes (lithium chloride in the form of ultrasonic, vibratory and pressurized aerosols) in the paranasal sinuses and sequential scintigraphy with radioactively labeled aerosols (99m Technetium colloidal sulfur) and is designed to shed light on the gas exchange in the paranasal sinuses and the patency of their orifices.
(11) Show that the pathogenesis of vibratory disease rests on a complex mechanism of neuroreflex and neurohumoral disorders leading to the development of congestive excitation followed by stable changes both in the receptor apparatus and different parts of the nervous system.
(12) Most studies have noted the presence of asthenozoospermia in the setting of normal sperm concentration following electroejaculation or vibratory stimulated ejaculation.
(13) spikes that are locked and those that are not locked to the vibratory stimuli.
(14) The tonic vibratory response, previously shown to be dependent upon brain influence, was present in both groups.
(15) It was also found that the vibratory milling of such powders in a metallic vessel enhanced the ESR spectral intensities, demonstrating the occurrence of mechanoradical formation.
(16) This model employs a limited number of vocal fold vibratory features extracted from ultra high-speed laryngeal films.
(17) Neurologically he had moderate weakness of proximal limb muscles involving the lower limbs more than the upper and slightly decreased vibratory sense in the feet.
(18) Single penile mechanoreceptor afferent fibers from aging animals exhibited a decrease in the ability to transduce high-frequency vibratory stimuli when compared to afferents from mature adult animals.
(19) There was little change in mean neurobehavioral performance and vibratory thresholds among all three groups.
(20) Our objective was to deduce from the changes in these respiratory variables whether the sensory input evoked by the vibratory stimulation modulated the central inspiratory drive, the termination of inspiration, or both.