Sentence examples for noxious measures from inspiring English sources

The Democratic Congress has yet to muster the votes or courage to repeal a series of noxious measures — rubber-stamped by the previous Republican majority — that pushed presidential power to dangerous extremes in the name of fighting terrorism.

Those many noxious measures would have required the police to become federal immigration enforcers, denied day laborers' speech rights, rejected the 14th Amendment guarantee of citizenship to children born in the United States, created a state militia, allowed the police to arrest the undocumented for trespassing and made English the official language.

Pupillary reflex dilatation (PRD) following a noxious event is measured with video recording (AlgiScan, IDMed, Marseille, France).

Cathcart et al. (2010) investigated temporal summation, defined as the increase in pain perception to repeated noxious stimulation (indirect measure of sensitization), by an algometer and heterotopic noxious conditioning stimulation (HNCS) in chronic TTH vs. controls.

Last year, the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Practices issued a landmark report that described air emissions - or "noxious fumes"- measured outside large concentrated animal feeding operations, (CAFOs), or factory farms.

We then measured noxious thermal and mechanical sensitivity before (baseline, BL) and after mPAP injections.

Sensitivity to noxious heat was measured using a Thermal Paw Stimulator (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA) after a 15 min acclimation period.

Sensitivity to noxious heat was measured in five specific anatomical domains which included the tail, right and left hind paws, and right and left forepaws.

The pharmacological activity of low dosages of type II collagen was evaluated in the rat unilateral osteoarthritis model induced by MIA. 14 days after intra-articular MIA injection the mechanical withdrawal threshold to a noxious stimulus was measured by Paw pressure test.

Reflex pupillary dilatation (RPD) has been demonstrated as a very sensitive measure of noxious stimulation.

The sensory thresholds for innocuous and noxious thermal stimulation were measured in the painful area by TSA 2001 apparatus (Medoc), using a Peltier device, according to previously described protocol [5], in comparison with the corresponding area on the uninjured side (Fig. 2).