If left untreated, Chagas disease can be fatal, in most cases due to heart muscle damage.

If these measures are insufficient to make the blood temperature in the brain match the new setting in the hypothalamus, then shivering begins in order to use muscle movements to produce more heat.

If this muscle is incapacitated on both sides, the inability to pull the vocal folds apart ( abduct ) will cause difficulty breathing.

If treatment is delayed, however, the disorder can quickly spread to the entire limb and changes in bone, nerve and muscle may become irreversible.

If an inflamed appendix is in contact with the obturator internus, spasm of the muscle ( called the obturator sign ) can be demonstrated by flexing and internal rotation of the hip.

If the drug pilocarpine is administered, the pupils will constrict and accommodation is increased due to the parasympathetic action on the circular muscle fibers, conversely, atropine will cause paralysis of accommodation ( cycloplegia ) and dilation of the pupil.

If larvae do encyst in skeletal muscle cells, they can remain infectious for months to years.

If used in the primary motor cortex, it produces muscle activity referred to as a motor evoked potential ( MEP ) which can be recorded on electromyography.

If pain or muscle aches are present alongside fasiculations, patients may be advised to take over-the-counter pain medications such as Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen during times of increased pain.

If a hunter finds himself staring at a deer's hindquarters, it is very unlikely that he or she will choose to fire at that deer anyway, in the hopes that their bullet will be able to reach a vital organ through several layers of muscle and gut.

If glucose is still denied at this point, muscle wasting is prevented by temporarily switching to fat as the primary fuel source, with glucose made as a byproduct during ketosis.

If not immediately treated by defibrillation, fibrillation is usually lethal because all of the heart muscle cells move independently instead of in the coordinated pulses needed to pump blood and maintain circulation.

If the swelling is very rapid, as may happen after someone is released from under a collapsed building, the movement of fluid from the bloodstream into damaged muscle may cause low blood pressure and shock.

If there is a loss of function on one side ( unilateral paralysis ), the tongue will point toward the affected side, due to unopposed action of the genioglossus muscle ( which pulls the tongue forward ) on the side of the tongue that is usually innervated.

If the spermatic cord becomes twisted while the scrotum is loose, the sudden contraction of the cremaster muscle that results from an abrupt drop in ambient temperature can potentially trap the testicle in this position and may result in testicular torsion.

If high Mg < sup > 2 +</ sup > concentrations fail to take effect, IV anticonvulsants will ease patient intubation and mechanical ventilation as adjuvants against the eclamptic convulsions ( plus the hypermagnesemic thoracic muscle paralysis ).

If a young person experiences incontinence resulting from an overactive bladder, a doctor might prescribe a medicine that helps to calm the bladder muscle, such as oxybutynin.

If the PC muscle is not engaged then it is impossible to improve the muscle tone or strengthen the muscle.

If stimuli are delivered slow enough, the tension in the muscle will relax between successive twitches.

If a mark " wins " this way, a shill or the muscle will usually trail the mark and attempt to retrieve the money by intimidation or theft.

If bouts of exercise continue through a long-term training regimen, AMPK and other signals will facilitate contracting muscle adaptations by escorting muscle cell activity to a metabolic transition resulting in an oxidative dependent approach to energy metabolism as opposed to a glycolytic approach.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

If the superintendents do not receive more cooperation from Handlers, it has been suggested that licensed Judges also be qualified to judge this Class.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

If design head has a deep cavity, clay lid will be quite thick at this point ; ;

If you run into excess plug fouling on one truck, check to be sure that the rig has a thermostat.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

If cell Af has not previously been assigned as the information cell of a form in the text-form list, it is now assigned as the information cell of Af.

If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.

If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

If a statement has been assigned an address in the index word area

If she has not had such experiences, the female's normal adolescent degree of indecision will be compounded.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

If Barnett doesn't call a special session in 1961, it will be the first year in the last decade that the Legislature has not met in regular or special session.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.