Arterial oxygen saturation, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate were measured during the normoxic and hypoxic/sham hypoxic periods. For each breathing cycle, changes from normoxia to hypoxia/sham hypoxia were calculated, and changes were averaged for each of the 15 sessions and for each week.
Some interpret it, with much probability, as denoting in the Old Testament the water-lily (Nymphoea lotus of Linn.), or lotus (Cant Exodus 2:1 Exodus 2:2 ; 2:16 ; 4:5 ; 5:13 ; Exodus 6:2 Exodus 6:3 ; 7:2 ). Its flowers are large, and they are of a white colour, with streaks of pink.
In alchemical symbolism lily meaning is associated with lunar and feminine qualities. Christians hold the lily as a symbol of chastity, innocence, purity and piety. In early Christian art the white lily is symbolic of the Madonna as the flower is associated with the virgin Mary.ontrarily, the lily also hold masculine qualities as the Greeks held the lily as a symbol of high eroticism and sexuality (the long pistil of the flower suggesting a phallus and the pollen symbolizing fertility). Old wives tales suggest telling the sex of an unborn child by using a rose and a lily.