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The balloon catheter was advanced over the guide wire, inflated with dilute contrast to a pressure of 3-4 atmospheres, and deflated immediately.
The high prevalence of simple phobia has not inflated the overall prevalence of mental disorder since all of these patients also had another mental disorder.
The univariate heritability estimate is thus likely to be inflated at this time point, assuming that the true litter variance component is greater than zero.
As the effort to act collectively encountered frustration, the energy tilted from idealist education and corporatist participation towards spectatorship, buttressed by inflating rhetoric.
Each sample was put in a self-sealing plastic bag, which slightly inflated and contained a piece of paper towel to reduce condensation.
Statutory organisations and funding bodies have to recognise that such costs are not ' inflated ' or ' excessive ' but rather legitimate and necessary.
In lateral view, larvae slightly and almost symmetrically vaulted; glabella and protopygidial axis inflated.
Occipital ring weakly inflated; medial part transversely rectangular with straight, well-incised occipital furrow.
First, the flyaway costs estimated in 1973 dollars could be inflated to 1992 dollars, or vice versa.
To accomplish this reversal, balloons are first inflated to block the common and external carotid arteries.
The unit cost estimate includes cost of training as well as direct care support staff and is inflated to a 1999/2000 price base.
Numbers can be inflated if the count includes all of ' third sector ' organisations such as philanthropic, welfare, cultural and sporting organisations.
Laterally, anterior margin subhorizontal; middle body inflated anteriorly, gently flattening posteriorly.
After surface reconstruction of this boundary, each hemisphere was inflated, cut along the calcarine sulcus, and flattened.
Firstly to remove year-to-year variation which, by inflating experimental variation, reduces the capacity of the experiment to detect treatment effects.
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