Sentence examples for irregular contraction from inspiring English sources

The term is derived from the Latin area and from hect, an irregular contraction of the Greek word for hundred.

Phase I is an inactivity relaxation period; Phase II is an irregular contraction period; and Phase IV is a contraction regression period—a short transition period after Phase III and before Phase I.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) causes rapid and irregular contractions resulting in stroke and cardiac arrest.

In contrast, A. ceylanicum L4s recovered from hamsters exhibited robust, sustained EPG activity, consisting of three waveforms: (1) conventional pumps as seen in other nematodes; (2) rapid voltage deflections, associated with irregular contractions of the esophagus and openings of the esophogeal-intestinal valve (termed a 'flutter'); and (3) hybrid waveforms, which we classified as pumps.

Irregular contractions were defined by calculating R R intervals.

Close scrutiny of R R intervals revealed patterns of intractable irregular contractions used to demarcate termination of the experiment in certain animals.

Furthermore, this study shows that the primary cause of cardiac failure for LCR rats during exposure to hypoxia was the development of fatal intractable irregular contractions.

Cardiac pump failure of HCR rats was exclusively characterized as a diminution in cardiac systolic performance during hypoxia with no failures attributable to the development of fatal irregular contractions (Figure 5c).

During the acute hypoxic challenge, we propose that pathologic alterations associated with changes in calcium handling cause the emergence of irregular contractions prior to the manifestation of systolic pump failure attributable to MHC isoform switching.

The consequences of this physiological state are poignantly revealed by the development of fatal intractable irregular contractions in LCR rats during episodes of cardiac energetic crisis as seen in this study.

Identifying the changes from the irregular contractions of early labour to commencement of second stage requires specialised clinical skills [ 8, 9].