Sentence examples for stiff heart from inspiring English sources
Restrictive cardiomyopathy also is characterized by a stiff heart and impaired ventricular filling.
Thickening, or hypertrophy, of the ventricular walls results in an extremely stiff heart, and subsequent impairment of the filling of the ventricles causes pressure to rise in the heart and lungs.
This test would tell if there was fluid around the heart, but it would also provide other clues: a large but localized region of weakness would argue in favor of a severe heart attack; global weakness would suggest a lack of thyroid hormone; a thickened and stiff heart would support amyloidosis.
After great pain a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious like Tombs; The stiff Heart questions – was it He that bore And Yesterday – or Centuries before?
Differential splicing between skeletal muscles and heart results in a short and stiff, heart-specific titin isoform that is implicated in the high passive stiffness of mammalian heart 2, 3. Drosophila is a valuable model to study the mechanisms that instruct and execute muscle fiber-type diversity.
Both "stiff" and "weak" types demand attention, but stiff hearts are trickier to treat.
As the rough-hewn Freddy, whose magic hands can exorcise others' pain, Mr. Rispoli is on a journey that furnishes him an opportunity to portray a devoted brother, an eager suitor, a frustrated husband, a loving father, a working stiff and a heart and soul open to the deepest wounds and the most exalted possibilities of art and life.
These agents primarily decrease the formation of abnormal fibers that make the heart stiffer and less elastic, although they also help eliminate excess fluid.
Stiff arteries force the heart to pump harder.
"When there is dysfunction here, the arteries become more stiff, and we have heart attacks and arterial occlusions," said Dr. Siasos, who did the research with his colleague Dr. Christodoulos Stefanadis.
Morse's history paintings, on which he set his heart, seem stiff and pompous; yet the portraits Silverman reproduces, though Morse disdained them as moneymakers, are keen and quirky.
