(n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(2) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(3) Especially a total iodide transport defect can easily be misclassified as thyroid agenesis, since radionuclide imaging cannot visualize the thyroid.
(4) In the child born with sacral agenesis, the management of arthrogrypotic-like deformities, spinal and multisystem abnormalities poses several problems to the orthopedist.
(5) Only a few cases of bilateral pulmonary agenesis have been reported.
(6) MRI revealed cranium bifida and agenesis of anterior medullar velum.
(7) This could be the first case of bilateral agenesis of the internal carotid artery reported "in vivo."
(8) To present the experience of a large referral center with patients with the rare but specific syndrome of uterus didelphys, obstructed hemivagina, and ipsilateral renal agenesis.
(9) The renal response to volume expansion was determined in four patients with renal hypertrophy due to unilateral renal agenesis (URA) and in four patients with renal hypertrophy due to nephrectomy (Nz).
(10) Two new cases of callosal agenesis in children of normal intelligence are presented.
(11) Within the past 24 months, we have performed prenatal diagnostic studies in 4 pregnancies known to be at risk for well-described genetic syndrome involving renal abnormalities, ie, Meckel syndrome, Roberts syndrome, and bilateral renal agenesis.
(12) Furthermore, agenesis of incisors, canines and premolars ranges from 0.4% in controls to 1.3% in propositi having reduced ULI and 5.0% in propositi with two missing ULI.
(13) On the basis of a case of agenesis of the gallbladder personally observed the most significant epidemiologic, etiopathogenetic, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of this rare anatomic anomaly are analyzed.
(14) Labyrinthine trepanation was performed in the majority of 16 patients with minor agenesis of middle ear involving either stapedovestibular ankylosis or absence of fenestra vestibuli.
(15) The nonsurgical subjects with developmental callosal agenesis and acquired pathologic processes involving the callosum revealed a varied, nonspecific reduction in cognitive function most probably related to associated extracallosal hemispheric pathology.
(16) Chromosome analysis of blood cells from a 42-year-old white male with mental retardation, colon carcinoma, horseshoe kidney, absence of left lobe of the liver, agenesis of the gallbladder, and possible Gardner syndrome revealed a constitutional marker chromosome due to del(5)(q13q15) or del(5)(q15q22).
(17) We report 2 cases of uterus didelphys with unilateral hematocolpos and ipsilateral renal agenesis with urological clinical complications.
(18) The developmental origin of arsenate-induced renal agenesis was investigated.
(19) It appears to us that bilateral vas deferens agenesis may be genetic in origin in some patients.
(20) Necropsy findings revealed multiple congenital malformations with occipital meningo-encephalocele and agenesis of the cerebellum, 6 digits on the hands and feet, polycystic kidneys.
Genesis
Definition:
(n.) The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.
(n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.
(n.) Same as Generation.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
(3) Therapeutic possibilities for hepatogenous anaemia of complex genesis are discussed.
(4) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(5) The immune genesis of the TINU syndrome is assumed.
(6) The high capacity of irreversible synthetic-state, smooth muscle cells to bind and accumulate beta-VLDL in contrast to the relative immunity of contractile cells may be relevant to the genesis of atherosclerosis in the rabbit and possibly also in humans.
(7) The unique structure we describe is a cytoplasmic organelle which, like annulate lamellae, is closely associated with the endoplasmic reticulum and is presumed to be related to the genesis of rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum in tumor cells.
(8) The relationship of these observations to the genesis of positional markers in the regenerating retina is discussed.
(9) Anesthetic drugs have been each time defined pro or anti-convulsant: however, data from the literature show that it is not possible to certainly define the role of general anesthetics in the genesis of post-operative seizures.
(10) The study indicates that a dopamine receptor exists in the stomach and plays a role in the genesis of gastric electrical abnormality.
(11) In the genesis of small airways obstruction (SAO) we have to consider two alterations with different prognoses: the first, in which the obstruction depends on a reduction of the diameters of the small bronchi (i.e.
(12) He believed the world was created as described in Genesis, and that the Reformation was the last great moment in human history.
(13) Calcium entry through the sarcolemmal Ca2+ channels and cyclic Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum are not required for the genesis of early afterdepolarisations in this model.
(14) Recognizing that the genesis and development of the disease process are extremely complex and the basic knowledge is limited, it is not likely that conclusive answers to questions will be forthcoming soon which will provide more effective preventive or therapeutic measures.
(15) From the derived cell flux in these compartments we suggest that 1) many more pre-B cells are produced than needed by the peripheral B cell pool; 2) if TdT is an obligatory stage in B cell genesis, there must be at least two cell cycles in the pre-B cell compartment; 3) if it is not, the TdT+ stage may be bypassed, with HIS24+TdT-Ig- cells perhaps feeding directly into the pre-B cell compartment.
(16) Treatment with tamoxifen before or during the period of gland genesis also reduced uterine responsiveness to a single dose of E2 as measured by both uterine weight gain (after a 24-h exposure on days 14, 19, 22, and 26) and the pattern of E2-induced ODC activity in 26-day-old rats.
(17) Data are presented on the effect of different antisera on the antibody-genesis induction by immune allogeneic macrophages.
(18) Despite the established enzyme defect and the resulting impairment of anerobic energy availability, the genesis of the disease or syndrome has not yet been fully clarified.
(19) In the conceptformation concerning the genesis of mental substructures, classic Psychoanalysis has much more stressed instinctual conflict conditions than psychosocial ones.
(20) Although the substantial change in [14C]2-DG uptake occurred over the entire inferior collicular cortex, electrical stimulation mapping delineated a specific area capable of seizure genesis within the inferior collicular cortex.