The ventilator, which had taken over the functions of the paralyzed respiratory centre, enabled oxygenated blood to be delivered to the heart, which went on beating.
There the jihadists have virtually taken over the functions of government, providing locals with a modicum of law and order as well as electricity and water.
The journal's study was aided, in large part, by information compiled over the last decade by the State Department of Health that statistically measured outcomes in hospitals that perform coronary artery bypass surgery, a high-risk form of open-heart surgery in which a machine temporarily takes over the functions of the patient's heart.
An early invention, the roller pump, devised while he was in medical school in the 1930s, became the central component of the heart-lung machine, which takes over the functions of the heart and lungs during surgery by supplying oxygenated blood to the brain.
We have not yet quite reached the point where young competitors, such as radio, cinema, etc, have taken over the functions from the book it can't afford to lose".
Soon after that, Balata, who seems to have taken over the functions, if not the title, of the imperial strategos on the island, appeared nearby with a Byzantine force.
It is possible that FPRL1 could have taken over the functions of two missing receptors in dog, pending that the sequence homology corresponds to a shared function.
PBP2a, which displays a low affinity for β-lactams, takes over the functions of these PBPs, permitting the cell to grow.
"By the end of the 60's, pop music had taken over the function that musical theater used to have," Mr. Sondheim said.
In Icelandic and Faroese old duals have taken over the function of plurals (Icelandic við 'we,' þið 'you'; Faroese vit 'we,' tit 'you').
