(a.) Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of autokeratoplasty have been better if the Healon viscous-elastic bioprotector has been employed.
(2) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(4) This large increase in power output can be accommodated without an increase in metabolic rate only if internal viscous resistances to flagellar bending are relatively low.
(5) The observation that the apparent activation energy for hydraulic conductivity is less than that for water diffusion across the red cell membrane is characteristic of viscous flow and suggests that the flow of water across the membranes of these red cells under an osmotic pressure gradient is a viscous process.
(6) The nodule typically accumulates a viscous yellow fluid.
(7) Oropharyngeal topical anesthesia with viscous lidocaine (25 ml of 2% as a "mouthwash and gargle" 10 min before laryngoscopy) attenuated the pressor but not heart rate (HR) response during laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation.
(8) Here we demonstrate that injection of HCl through solutions of pig gastric mucin produces viscous fingering patterns dependent on pH, mucin concentration and acid flow rate.
(9) The viscous layer of the cornea was seen by TEM in one case of PPD.
(10) By means of an oscillating capillary rheometer and densimeter, the viscous and elastic parts of the complex viscosity of whole blood and plasma were measured from the ipsilateral internal jugular vein in 17 patients with unilateral occlusive carotid lesions during different stages of carotid endarterectomy.
(11) This type of ventilation brought about changes in viscous properties, measured during creep and oscillation of the mucus, which would be expected to reduce mucus clearance in vivo.
(12) The stability and accuracy of all the methods depend on the amount of viscous pressure loss dictated by wall friction.
(13) If you get a group of people together who wouldn't dream of drinking three quarters of a pint of viscous fatty liquid, and you got them to drink a mug of Horlicks, it would actually disrupt their sleep.
(14) This protein friction, with such viscous-like characteristics, may well play a role as a velocity-limiting factor in the normal ATP-induced sliding movement of motile proteins.
(15) At a hydrophobic surface, molecules move apart and local water becomes strongly bonded, inert, and viscous and accumulates large cations, univalent anions, and compatible solutes.
(16) The transport equation describing the flow of solute across a membrane has been modified on the basis of theoretical studies calculating the drag of a sphere moving in a viscous liquid undergoing Poiseuille flow inside a cylinder.
(17) Remnants of the highly viscous and sticky contrast medium that remain attached to the vascular wall complicate the technical procedure of anastomosing.
(18) Therefore, in this study, we measured the ability of viscous agents to maintain the deepness of the anterior chamber in vitro and discussed the correlations between this ability and the viscosity or elasticity of the various viscous agents.
(19) In 21 experiments, 5 for each of 3 viscoelastic fluids with varying characteristics and 6 for a viscous fluid, aerosol deposition was significantly enhanced in every experiment, irrespective of the type of fluid added.
(20) The results confirm that the intracervical administration of PGE2 in a viscous medium can induce ripening of the cervix in those patients at term displaying unfavorable cervical state.
Viscus
Definition:
(n.) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four cases of right lower quadrant abscess, each a clinical diagnostic dilemma, were recognized as abscesses surrounding a perforated viscus by application of the "coffee bean" sign on sonographic examination.
(2) attack of pain, retroperitoneal hematoma, hemoperitoneum, rupture into a hollow viscus, infective aneurysm.
(3) Ancillary evidence of a devitalized viscus in a baby who appears to have complete gastric outlet obstruction should suggest the diagnosis of gastric infarction.
(4) Small fistulae may not be suspected when overshadowed by other complications of ulcer disease such as bleeding or perforated viscus.
(5) Four cases with a total of six episodes of pneumoperitoneum were identified where viscus perforation was not documented.
(6) Physicians should suspect child abuse when children have unexplained injuries (especially young children with hollow viscus injuries) even when other signs of child abuse are absent, and they should suspect hollow viscus injury in abused children.
(7) These hemorrhagic pseudo-cysts are very often associated with chronic pancreatitis; they may rupture into a hollow viscus, the peritoneal cavity or into Wirsung's duct.
(8) The most accurate predictors of blunt hollow viscus injury were peritoneal lavage (91%, n = 14) and abdominal tenderness (50%).
(9) According to definition, administration of antibiotics in a perforated hollow viscus or an open fracture is not a prophylaxis.
(10) If the diagnosis of perforated hollow viscus can be eliminated with considerable certainty, then conservative management with careful observation and monitoring may avoid unnecessary surgery, so long as other causes of pneumoperitoneum have been ruled out.
(11) This relatively simple surgical procedure may prove valuable for the correction of neonatal atresia of the esophagus; in particular, when done upon the cranial stump, it affords primary anastomosis of the viscus without undue tension even in cases of faulty esophageal continuity involving a length of several centimeters.
(12) The diagnosis of the spinal injury was frequently delayed when abdominal viscus injury occurred together with a flexion-distraction spinal injury.
(13) Internal gall bladder fistulas with a hollow viscus following dislocation of a gallstone into the intestine represent one of the late sequelae of cholelithiasis.
(14) At all laser energies the depth of tissue vaporization was significantly greater at the higher tissue pressure with perforation of the viscus occurring at laser energies above 10 J.
(15) It is after the third day that complication develop related at one and the same to the past history, classical in such patients, (tobacco, chronic bronchitis, alcoholism) and the ectopic position of an abdominal viscus.
(16) The spinal sensory fields of each viscus were defined using three determinations: craniocaudal extent, principal innervation field, and peak innervation field.
(17) All five subsequently were proved to have a perforated viscus.
(18) Three cases of traumatic rupture of a subperitoneal hollow viscus are reported : two duodenal lesions and one rectal wound.
(19) Hence ampicillin fails appreciably to penetrate the obstructed viscus in obstructive biliary tract disease, and it is unlikely to be effective in treating infection associated with this.
(20) We conclude that PCD can be successfully performed as the initial treatment for IAA associated with a perforated viscus, obviating the first stage of the traditional two-stage surgical approach.