(a.) Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
(a.) Banded or marked with circles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Linear and annular gap junctions between neighbouring cells were present, particularly in Group 1.
(2) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
(3) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
(4) The skin lesions resembled disseminated subacute lupus erythematosus on clinical examination, but actinic granuloma or annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma was seen in biopsy specimens of the lesions.
(5) Little anatomic information is available on the annular myocardium.
(6) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
(7) The case of a Black African patient with an annular subvalvular left ventricular aneurysm of unknown origin is described, and the pathological findings in this condition together with a review of the literature is presented.
(8) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
(9) Although commonly subacute in presentation, complications of endocarditis were frequent: arterial emboli in five patients, new electrocardiographic conduction system abnormalities in nine, congestive heart failure in eight, annular or myocardial abscesses in five, and disruption of valve leaflets in three.
(10) Thirteen patients with localized granuloma annulare and 19 with the generalized form of the disease were typed for HLA antigens.
(11) There was a continuous relation between the incidence of stroke and the severity of mitral annular calcification; each millimeter of thickening as shown on the echocardiogram represented a relative risk of stroke of 1.24 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.12 to 1.37; P less than 0.001).
(12) Previous studies have shown that systolic annular nonplanarity can cause apparent prolapse in the four chamber view without actual leaflet displacement above the most superior points of the anulus, and there is evidence for such nonplanarity in vivo.
(13) The prevalence of aortic and mitral regurgitation as well as valvular and annular calcification did not differ between analyzed groups.
(14) Histologically, elastic tissue is destroyed by the granulomatous process in actinic granuloma, but not in granuloma annulare.
(15) The data on DPH anisotropy, pyrene excimerization and induction resonance energy transfer (IRET) from PM proteins to pyrene provided the evidence for age-dependent decrease in PM lipid phase fluidity inclusive of that of annular lipid.
(16) Specimens of the seawater fish annular seabream (Diplodus annularis) were caught from a polluted harbor area and from a clean reference area.
(17) A total of 54 patients with tick-borne annular erythema (TAE) were investigated.
(18) Mitral valve replacement and reconstruction of the interatrial septum were necessary because the tumor originated from the left atrial side of the interatrial septum and invaded the anterior mitral valve leaflet and around the annular area.
(19) (1) Annular stimulation of rods slightly facilitated rod-mediated flicker sensitivity to frequencies less than 10 Hz.
(20) After quench freezing, 1-2 mum thick sections of mouse liver were cut at 193 degrees K and picked up on a specially designed annular specimen holder covered with an aluminium coated nylon film.
Circinate
Definition:
(a.) Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.
(v. t.) To make a circle around; to encompass.
Example Sentences:
(1) CT-scan of thorax, however, showed a bunch of circinate opacities in the upper lobe of the right lung.
(2) Some patients present with pustules on an erythematous base; in others, annular or circinate papulonodular lesions predominate, which may become crusted.
(3) A 30-year-old man was found to have juxtapapillary exophytic capillary hemangioma complicated by circinate maculopathy and peripapillary exudative retinal detachment.
(4) basal keratinocyte processes protruding through basal lamina gaps were observed in psoriasis, circinate balanitis, pityriasis rubra pilaris, patch tests, gold dermatitis and conjunctivitis.
(5) As a clinical analogue to circinate balanitis, it should have the same diagnostic value.
(6) The HL-A phenotype of 17 patients with a typical clinical picture of circinate erosive balanitis was determined.
(7) We believe that pericentral pigmentary retinal degeneration and circinate choroidal degeneration are distinct entities.
(8) The blisters, present since birth, were numerous and were often circinate with central healing.
(9) It is characterized by pruritic circinate plaques that are studded with follicular papules and pustules.
(10) A case of eruptive porokeratosis of Mibelli with diverse morphologic features, including circinate macular, circinate plaque and verrucous varieties is presented.
(11) Three male and two female patients (aged 16 to 22 years) developed bilateral deep corneal stromal vascularization and circinate-pattern lipid exudation resembling interstitial keratitis after wearing adequately fitting hydrogel daily wear soft contact lenses comfortably for periods of ten to 24 months.
(12) Rare cases of migrant circinated eruptions occurring during the course of lupus erythematosus have been published so far.
(13) The diagnosis of circinate choroidal degeneration was made.
(14) The case is report of a boy aged 6 months whose dermatosis had set in suddenly 15 days before in the form of large round circinate patches on the face, thorax, abdomen, dorsum and extremities.
(15) Lesions missed by ophthalmoscopy but detected by the camera included soft exudates and circinate rings of hard exudates, sometimes encroaching on the macula.
(16) The phase of the oral contraceptive cycle appeared to have a marked effect on the initiation and duration of the circinate lesions, the tongue changes being severest on the 17th day of the cycle.
(17) Despite 2 years of griseofulvin, 23 months of ketoconazole and 8 months of itraconazole, the therapeutic failure was evident: circinate herpes, papulo-nodules, vegetating plaques, ulceration, superficial and profound adenopathies, cerebral involvement, and deterioration of the general state.
(18) We present the case of a patient with incomplete Reiter's Syndrome with arthritis, circinate balanitis and psoriasilike lesions of skin and nails who developed ischemic colitis.
(19) The Authors report a case of infantile recurrent circinate erythematous psoriasis, as described by Lapière, in a nine year old child.
(20) In addition circinate lesions developed on the vulva similar to those seen on the glans penis.