(n.) The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nucleotide sequences presented thus enable us to discriminate the tyrosinase gene from its related sequences and are invaluable for a gene diagnosis of oculocutaneous albinism.
(2) The presence of a ring-like figure in the centre of the fundus oculi may be regarded as an additional clinical sign of albinism of the fundus oculi.
(3) Resuscitation was significantly more often successful with the Bunegin-Albin catheter (six of nine dogs) than with either Sorenson catheter (zero of seven in both groups) or the Swan-Ganz RA port (one of seven).
(4) Based upon the finding of giant pigment granules in clinically normal skin of the patient's mother, the patient was diagnosed as a case of dyschromatosis universalis with X-linked ocular albinism.
(5) These findings suggest that there is a partial block in the distal eumelanin pathway in this form of albinism.
(6) Minimal pigment, a new type of oculocutaneous albinism (OCA), is described.
(7) Two female patients with familial diffuse fibrosing alveolitis associated with oculocutaneous albinism are presented.
(8) Several types of autosomal recessive oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) are associated with abnormal tyrosinase function and a generalized reduction in or absence of cutaneous and eye melanin.
(9) Amplitudes were reduced compared with those obtained with the sclera unoccluded, suggesting that responses to transscleral illumination contributed to the ERG in this type of albinism.
(10) On account of a recently developed tinnitus, a young woman with the characteristic features of Klein-Waardenburg's syndrome (impairment of hearing, partial albinism, telecanthus) was hospitalised.
(11) The introducer sheath was compared to a Sorenson CVP catheter, a Bunegin-Albin Air Aspiration CVP Catheter, and the proximal port of a pulmonary artery catheter.
(12) An 11-year-old boy had dyskeratosis congenita, elevated fetal hemoglobin level, X-linked ocular albinism, and juvenile-onset diabetes mellitus.
(13) A family was studied in which four siblings had oculocutaneous albinism.
(14) The broader category of mild to moderate hypopigmentation without all of the features of albinism may ultimately prove to be as important in understanding melanin metabolism.
(15) The absence of the foveolar pit and the decrease of visual acuity in tyrosinase-positive albinism is caused by definite morphologic alteration in the arrangement of ganglion cells in the macular region in the sense of a foveolar aplasia.
(16) Ocular albinism is distinguished from the more common oculocutaneous albinism by the presence of normal pigmentation of skin and hair in the former condition.
(17) The iris shows the lack of pigmentation in various types of albinism.
(18) It has recently been suggested that aberrant misrouting of retino-geniculate-cortical (RGC) projections, a finding previously noted only in albinism, may be an additional feature of the Prader-Willi syndrome.
(19) Histopathologic and ultrastructural findings in an eye from a patient with complete oculocutaneous albinism are reported.
(20) This is believed to be the first case of albinism reported in sheep.
Albino
Definition:
(n.) A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) In the liver of albino rats with experimental thyrotoxicosis a study was made of nucleic acids and some indices of phosphorus metabolism: total and inorganic phosphorus, total and acid-soluble phosphorus, phosphorus of RNA, DNA and phosphoproteins.
(3) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
(4) Differences between the albino vs pigmented strains were observed following injections of saline.
(5) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
(6) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(7) The flash visually evoked cortical potential (VECP) was recorded in 18 human albinos.
(8) The contralateral projection in all divisions of the CN of both albino and 'red eyed' ferrets was normal.
(9) A cluster of unlinked genes encoding gluconeogenic enzymes in the mouse is characterized by the failure of normal hormone-inducible expression in animals homozygous for one of several overlapping deletions mapping on chromosome 7 near the albino locus.
(10) Male albino rats were tested in three conspecific conditions: estrous female, anestrous female, or no conspecific.
(11) In albino rabbits aged from the 16th postconceptional day (16PCD) to adulthood, the number of axons in the optic nerves were estimated from sample areas totalling 1-12% of the cross-sectional area of the nerve.
(12) Beryllium, cadmium, and tellurium assay data are reported for the fresh tissues of albino rats exposed to inorganic chemicals by oral or intraperitoneal routes.
(13) Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels and subunit isozyme patterns in cornea were monitored in 36 albino rabbits wearing thick, rigid, gas-permeable contact lenses for periods of 24 h, 2 and 7 days, and 1 and 3 months.
(14) Thiabendazole was found to be specifically effective against maximal electroshock seizures in albino rats.
(15) The broad overlap in the distributions of neuronal size in the abducens nucleus between groups indicated that not all cells in the albino brainstem are significantly smaller than normal.
(16) The ceramic sections, approximately 15.3 mg, were implanted into both proximal femurs of 10 male and 10 female albino SW rats.
(17) Intravitreal injections of hCG in albino rabbits provoked a reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP).
(18) There was marked destruction of the ciliary body in pigmented rabbit eyes, but no histologic effect was observed in albino rabbit eyes.
(19) When twenty Swiss albino mice (male) were fed a vitamin A deficient diet for 18-24 months, Mallory bodies (MB(s] were observed.
(20) Tests were conducted on albino male-rats in which an experimental gastric ulcer failing to heal for a long time had been induced through introduction of a 5% acetic acid solution into the subserous membrane of the stomach.