8 sentences with 'involves'
Example sentences and phrases with the word involves and other words derived from it.
• « What is real and concrete is that stress deeply involves all organic and psychological levels including sensory perception, the nervous system, hormonal and cardiovascular balance, the digestive, genitourinary and respiratory systems, the skin and the immune system. »
• « Chemotherapy is a special treatment of diseases that involves the administration of chemicals that act on infectious agents without damaging organ tissues. »
• « The so-called incorporation (third phase) involves the reintegration of the transformed individual into the community. He/she will have a new mission. »
• « The best known technique involves suspending a person in a tank of water at the same temperature as the body (to minimise sensations of weight and temperature), blindfolding them and plugging their ears. Their arms are placed in tubes so that they cannot move them. »
• « Several hospitals are now experimenting with a treatment that involves cooling the injured person with ice water. The aim is to lower the body temperature to the point of reducing the metabolic rate, which slows down the chain of chemical reactions that follow a stroke and cause the death of neurons in a region of the brain. »
• « The procedure, called hypothermic therapy, involves wrapping the patient in special blankets in which ice-cold water is circulated by a pump. Within four to six hours, the body temperature drops to about 32°C, enough to slow down the metabolism without causing dangerous side effects such as arrhythmia. The patient remains like this for 24 to 48 hours. »
• « The brain's neurons, which are non-renewable cells, are responsible for transmitting the chemical-electrical impulses that the act of thinking involves: dendrites and axons, the nerve endings of neurons, communicate these impulses - called synapses - with a speed that is impossible to define. »
• « Laparoscopic surgery, known as keyhole surgery, involves inserting a telescopic instrument with video through the abdominal wall and performing the operation with special instruments also inserted through the skin. »