(a.) Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).
Example Sentences:
(1) In control group, one week and four weeks after the hepatectomy, ivGTT was examined followed by a blood sampling from the portal vein to measure the changes of glucose, insulin and glucagon, and areal changes of the islets were measured.
(2) Following 8 weeks of loading, areal properties and histomorphometry were performed on both the experimental and intact control ulnae.
(3) Here the pulse curve analysis of the linear blood flow deserves special mention, important parameters being the peak-flow, the catacrote areal index, the peak delay, and the sum of pulse peak and pulse peak delay.
(4) We report here on 49 areal measurements of transplant size from a coronal section and compare the results with isotopically measured areas.
(5) Among others, a modified suture technique for correcting the combined laceration of Perineum-Ampulla recti-areal (third degree perineal laceration) and a modification of the method for correcting pneumovagina are described.
(6) We found that the areal distribution pattern of labeled callosal projection neurons varied at the different fetal ages.
(7) In both sexes, apparent relationships between BMD and lean mass are artifacts attributable to the use of areal density (which is dependent on body size) as a surrogate for volumetric density.
(8) Cross-sectional areal properties and bone formation rates were quantitated from 30 microns mid-diaphyseal sections using a Bioquant Bone Morphometry system.
(9) The amount of bone that grew into the porous surface, the areal density of bone within the available pore space, and the extent of the prosthesis periphery with bone ingrowth were not significantly varied in the two different components.
(10) The dissociation of elastic, muscular and connective tissue and the determination of their areal densities in the superior vena cava and in the ascending aorta of the dog, was performed by automated image analysis.
(11) We found that the areal and numerical densities of darkly reactive mitochondria were lower in deafferented cells than those in the sham-operated animals.
(12) This massive somatotopic reorganization, involving more than half the areal extent of SII, exceeds that previously observed in the postcentral cortex after peripheral nerve damage and may reflect a greater capacity for reorganizational changes in higher order than in primary sensory cortical areas.
(13) By contrast, the areal distribution of associational neurones in area 18a and in nonretinotopically organized areas projecting to area 17 were very similar in controls and in operated animals (neonatal kainate lesion of the visual thalamus, neonatal section of the corpus callosum or both procedures combined).
(14) There was a significant reduction in the areal density of striatal neurons expressing preproenkephalin messenger RNA in the patients with symptomatic HD, but the level of labeling in the remaining cells was not altered compared with the control subjects.
(15) Cortical motor output organization was assessed by mapping the areal extent of movements evoked by intracortical electrical stimulation in anesthetized rats.
(16) The transformation of STIM energy-loss images into maps of areal density is discussed, and is illustrated with images of a fruit fly head (Drosophila melanogaster).
(17) The total area, the number of C cells per unit area, and the areal fraction of C cells were determined for the C cell region using step serial sections.
(18) To quantify these alterations and to determine their contribution to the final form of the region, size and areal measurements were recorded and served as input for principal component and cluster analytic techniques.
(19) At the same time granule and Purkinje cell density declined, suggesting that the areal recovery was due to the expansion of the interneuronal matrix.
(20) Areal boundaries are localized at positions where this laminar pattern changes.
Interstice
Definition:
(n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.
(n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both materials elicited a surrounding inflammatory reaction containing macrophages which transgressed the interstices of only the PGA prostheses.
(2) The acellular vesicles are formed from excess nuclear and plasma membranes produced during spermatid condensation, and the ECM is topologically restricted to the interstices between acellular vesicles and sperm heads, being absent from the flagellar surface.
(3) The effluent water and solutes appear in the form of lymph in the interstices between cells.
(4) The influence on healing of three materials for closure of interstices in a macroporous Dacron arterial prosthesis were evaluated by 56-day implantation in the canine descending thoracic aorta.
(5) The potential consequences of vascular damage are described as well as the importance of pancreatic lymphatics in the transport of the escaped enzymes from the interstices.
(6) It was also suggested that the interstices of the collagen fibers in the myocardial wall constituted the lymphatic ducts outside the blood vessels and that the MAO activity in serum determined by the method in which tryptamine hydrochloride was used as substrate might indicate the grade of fibrosis of the myocardial tissue in the infarcted areas.
(7) Mesh interstices epithelialized over the surface of the full-thickness wound (control sites) or over the surface of Dermagraft (experimental sites).
(8) The interstices G1, G3 and G4 seem to contain glycoproteins, whereas interstice G3 seems to contain some type of carbohydrate.
(9) Liquid in these interstices could amplify the degree of luminal compromise due to muscular contraction in at least two distinct ways.
(10) Finally, most frequently in 10- to 12-cell embryos, typical nucleolar structure is established as a result of intranucleolar differentiation giving rise to distinct fibrillar and granular components as well as to nucleolar interstices.
(11) Examination of the posterior or inner wall of this canal, represented by the sclerocorneal trabecula, in 15 species of primates and 5 adult humans, has enabled us to observe the existence of some small orifices or stomata that are the outermost part of the so-called Sondermann's canals, which in our opinion are made by the successive confluence of the interstices worked in the interior of the sclerocorneal trabecula by means of contraction of the longitudinal portion of the ciliary muscle.
(12) Small pockets of gas, known as gas nuclei, are trapped within surface interstices.
(13) The unproven hypothesis that ankle pain may result from compression of the marrow contents into the bone interstices is presented for consideration.
(14) In grade 1 injury the testicular parenchyma shows edema of interstice, slight blood extravasation and a desquamation of the germ cells.
(15) In the entorhinal area, the superficial cortical layers (I-III) contained most enzyme activity in the superficial two-thirds of layer I, the interstices between the stellate cell bodies in layer II, and the superficial part of layer III.
(16) "Fronds," characterized by contrast within the interstices of the lesion, were seen in three malignant lesions.
(17) The alveolar subepithelial basement membrane were markedly thickened and bundles of collagen fibres were formed in the interstice.
(18) Evidence of continuous basement membrane formation at the epithelial-Dermagraft junction, which was identified by immunohistochemical staining for laminin and type IV collagen, was seen by day 14 beneath the healed epithelium in the skin graft interstices.
(19) Deposition and activation of these enzymes in the interstices presumably is associated with the transformation of lamellar body-derived lipids from a relatively polar to a non-polar mixture, as well as the degradation of other non-lipid intercellular substrates.
(20) This morphological maturation involved the gradual transformation from relatively compact nucleoli to reticulate ones which exhibited a typical nucleolonemal configuration with numerous nucleolar interstices and fibrillar centers.