(n.) Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
(n.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
Example Sentences:
(1) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(2) After completion of the biopsy, a J-shaped 5F bipolar pacing lead was inserted via the sheath and positioned with the lead tip directed medially against the interatrial septum or right atrial appendage.
(3) The purpose of this study is to determine the sensitivity and specificity of two dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of thrombosis of the left atrial appendage.
(4) Thus careful examination of standard ECG leads for paced P waves of low amplitude, prolonged duration and specific morphology can help in confirming atrial capture following pacing stimulus from right atrial appendage.
(5) The results indicate that position along the appendage does not influence the developmental sequence of events of regeneration, but that it does influence the rate of growth and the structures to be replaced.
(6) The appendages were about 125 x 30 A; the central ring had an outer diameter of approximately 100 A and an inner diameter of 40 A.
(7) In this last region, we can find a more or less reduced true tail or a terminal appendage without vertebral element.
(8) Before therapy considerable destructive changes in nerve fibers were seen, i. e. Schwann cell cytoplasm and nerve cell appendages edemas, no neural tubes in the appendages.
(9) Of 70 children scrotal explorations, torsion of appendages was found in 33 cases (47%).
(10) Synaptic contacts (GRAY I) are established with the grape-like appendages in the branching zone of P-neuron dendrites.
(11) Of the 84 adolescent scrotal explorations performed, 72 (86%) had torsion of testis, and 8 (9%) had torsion of appendages.
(12) Electron microscopy reveals that Toh+ amacrine cells are postsynaptic to amacrine cells and a few bipolar cell terminals in stratum 1 of the inner plexiform layer and are primarily presynaptic to AII amacrine cell bodies and lobular appendages, and to another type of amacrine cell body and amacrine dendrites hypothesized to be the A17 amacrine cell.
(13) A practical classification of left atrial calcification is proposed according to the dominant lesion in each group: (a) Calcification of the left atrial appendage alone (Mitral stenosis).
(14) The innervation and myocardial cells of the human atrial appendage were investigated by means of immunocytochemical and ultrastructural techniques using both tissue sections and whole mount preparations.
(15) Many HBox genes sustain their expression in the appendages of the adult newt.
(16) Wounds made at intervals from 2-24 weeks after irradiation in normal or irradiated ileum were repaired immediately and wrapped in normal or irradiated appendages.
(17) A course of treatment resulted in clinical improvement and appearance of small-diameter appendages of nerve cells on the periphery of nerve fibers that were often not completely covered with Schwann cell appendages.
(18) Among the relay cells, these differences relate to soma and axon diameter, dendritic orientation, and the presence or absence of grapelike dendritic appendages.
(19) When taken together these cases show that just over 50% of the degenerating terminals are presynaptic to spiny appendages and are located within the synaptic clusters (glomeruli) described previously (King, '76).
(20) Surgical techniques used (alone or in combination) included an isolation procedure in 1 patient, cryoablation in 4 patients, and excision of atrial appendages or portions of atrial free walls in 7.
Appendicular
Definition:
(a.) Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The form of the illness in young children was acute gastroenteritis and in older children "appendicular syndrome".
(2) It is postulated that a worm escaped through the appendicular tip, causing transient peritonitis followed by adhesions and granulomatas in the peritoneal cavity.
(3) A second combination of the seven sites indicated that the contrast between axial and appendicular regional densities accounted for another 10% of the variation among subjects.
(4) On ultrasound scan of the abdomen, he was found to have an appendicular mass.
(5) The appendicular skeleton (53%), the humerus (13%), and the femur (23%) were most frequently affected.
(6) Our data suggest that TSH suppressive L-thyroxine treatment has a detrimental effect on the appendicular skeleton in post-menopausal women.
(7) In such cases, it provides a simple and safe solution, with reduced risk of sepsis, to the problem of appendicular ligature.
(8) The initial intervention concerned mainly gynecological affections or pathologies of appendicular type.
(9) To quantify the appendicular and axial bone mineral with good accuracy and precision, dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), DCS-600 (Aloka) for the radius, mainly composed of cortical bone, and QDR-1000 (Hologic) for the lumbar vertebrae, mainly composed of trabecular bone, was used.
(10) MRI is capable of demonstrating superb anatomic detail of the appendicular skeleton and articulations.
(11) Present in the mandibular symphysis of either the human or cat fetuses, chondroid tissue has also been observed in the other parts of the mandible, in the sutural areas of the skull and in all the bones of both axial and appendicular skeleton.
(12) Since acromegaly is associated with a high risk for the development of colorectal tumors, it could also have elicited a similar response in the intestinal-type ovarian tumor and the appendicular neoplasm found in this patient.
(13) Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was performed in 17 patients, 11-84 years of age, referred for evaluation of possible osteomyelitis involving the appendicular skeleton.
(14) Single-photon absorptiometry carried out on forearm bones informs on the mineral density of the compact bone of the appendicular skeleton.
(15) From 245 examined children with diffuse appendicular peritonitis hyperbaric oxygenation was used in 127 children in the complex treatment during the postoperative period.
(16) Type II collagen gene transcripts were found in all the chondrogenic tissues of the axial and appendicular skeleton until the onset of endochondral ossification.
(17) Based upon an analysis of long-term results of treatment of 99 patients after appendicular infiltrate and abscess the authors made a conclusion that young and middle-aged patients with this disease have indications for operation in the early period--within 2-3 weeks after resolution of the infiltrate.
(18) Bone mass and appendicular bone loss rates were examined in a cohort of Japanese-American men.
(19) In summary, calcium-placebo and calcium-25-OHD treatment were both associated with stable appendicular bone mineral content in women with senile osteopenia.
(20) This technique is indicated in cases of necrosis of the appendix extending to the lower end of the caecum and in patients with very wide caeco-appendicular junction.