(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.
Limb
Definition:
(n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
(n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
(n.) A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
(n.) An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
(v. t.) To supply with limbs.
(v. t.) To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
(n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.
(n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
(n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
(n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(2) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(3) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(4) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(5) The most frequent source of the pulmonary circulation thromboembolism was the lower limb veins.
(6) No case of oromandibular-limb abnormality was seen in the CVS groups, but 1 child in the AC group had aplasia of the right hand.
(7) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(8) Of these, 12 had radiation-induced neurologic complications which, in 5 instances, consisted of persisting, wholly or partially disabling paresis in the lower limbs.
(9) The rate of removal of exogenous PGE2 in the hind limb circulation was not influenced by HC, suggesting that the diminution of PG release by HC results from the suppression of PG generation rather than from the enhancement of degradation.
(10) Full length or multifocal uptake was seen in six patients, all of whom eventually required graft excision with two limbs surviving, and one death.
(11) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
(12) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
(13) Seventy-one patients with 80 lower limbs clinically suspected of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) were investigated by both Doppler ultrasound and venography.
(14) Piretanide blocks the Na+ 2Cl- K+ cotransporter protein in the thick ascending limb (TAL) of the loop of Henle reversibly.
(15) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
(16) The myogenic potential of chick limb mesenchyme from stages 18-25 was assessed by micromass culture under conditions conductive to myogenesis, and was measured as the proportion of differentiated (muscle myosin-positive) mononucleated cells detected.
(17) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
(18) High levels of both enzymes were reached noticeably earlier during development in PCT and PST than in medullary thick ascending limb, which emphasizes metabolic heterogeneity of developing rat kidney nephron.
(19) Forty-eight reinterventions in 34 limbs were required to restore or maintain graft patency in thrombosed or failing grafts.
(20) Stimulation of nerves in the limbs evoked EPSPs and JPSPs in 201 of 204 tested LRN neurones.