(n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.
(n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.
Example Sentences:
(1) By using various colors, it is possible to tattoo a nipple-areola complex onto the breast that will have an illusion of projection.
(2) The microflora of the mammary glands in the area of the nipple, the areola and the adjacent skin was studied by the methods of washings and impression.
(3) A split-skin graft is used to reconstruct both (not one) areolae; this provides almost complete symmetry in terms of size, texture, and color.
(4) They feel that intraareolar incisions should be used whenever circumareolar incisions are indicated in augmentation mammaplasty, because the areola, being a favored area, is less likely to produce hypertrophic scars.
(5) Most oncologic surgeons agree that removal of the nipple, the areola and any recent scar at the site of the biopsy is necessary during a mastectomy for treatment of carcinoma of the breast.
(6) The authors graft the areola-nipple complex of the mastectomised breast on the abdominal skin, each time that they are sure of its integrity.
(7) There was no deformity of the nipple or areola after this procedure, and the surgical scars were inconspicuous.
(8) We have defined a group of patients with a lesser degree of moderate breast ptosis whose ptosis correction is not adequately improved by augmentation alone but requires some elevation of the nipple-areola complex.
(9) We believe it preserves the blood supply and sensation of the areola-nipple better than the other mastopexies we have tried, while producing breasts with excellent contour and position, and normal consistency.
(10) We describe a simple technique for the manufacture of a custom made nipple-areola prosthesis.
(11) A woman with nevoid hyperkeratosis of the nipple and areola appearing during puberty is described.
(12) The size and morphology of the pores in the "pored-domes" of glomerular and peritubular capillaries were similar to those of areolae fenestratae of the respective capillary.
(13) Patients participate in positioning of the future nipple-areola complex, and accurate localization can be checked even when the breast is covered with a brassiere.
(14) When the nipple and areola were clinically normal, involvement of the nipple and areola by carcinoma was rare if the primary tumor was less than 2 centimeters in diameter and was not situated behind the areola.
(15) Physical examination revealed a slightly exudative erythema at the areola and a reddish, enlarged left nipple.
(16) The histochemical results are discussed in context with the function of the areolae in histiotrophic nutrition and iron transport.
(17) The reconstruction of the nipple and areola is only done after reconstructed breast symmetry is ascertained.
(18) In most cases of mastectomy, however, reconstruction is performed as a secondary procedure, in two stages if possible (volume and symmetry after the first, areola after the second).
(19) This study was undertaken to assess the frequency with which lobules occur in the nipple, exclusive of the areola.
(20) In group "A" the following histological group parameters were studied: which breast, in which quadrant the nodule was situated, the type of breast the contour and size of the tumour, the number of axillary nodes removed, the histological type of the cancer, the histological grade of the malignancy, vascular invasion, details about the skin and the areola, calcifications, lymphocytic infiltration of the stroma, multicentricity, the co-existence of cystic disease of the breast and invasion of the axillary nodes.
Iris
Definition:
(n.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.
(n.) The rainbow.
(n.) An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
(n.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.
(n.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.
(n.) See Fleur-de-lis, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(2) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
(3) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
(4) A 1.5-year-old girl presented with a peripheral iris mass.
(5) In normal as well as in cirrhotic subjects somatostatin infusion provoked a marked reduction of the IRI plasma level and this was uninfluenced by subsequent glucagon administration.
(6) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(7) Adrenergic desensitization of the eye resulted in attenuation of: The polyphosphoinositide response in the iris, measured both as loss of 32P-radioactivity from phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and as IP3 accumulation; the epinephrine-stimulated liberation of AA, from membrane phosphoinositides and other phospholipids, and PGE2 release in the iris; and the epinephrine-induced muscle contraction in the iris dilator.
(8) ChAT activities of the iris, adrenal gland, and superior cervical ganglion were similar in all groups.
(9) Plasma glucose, insulin (IRI), glucagon (IRG) and SRIF-LI were measured.
(10) The appearance in aqueous humor of selected metabolites of arachidonic acid metabolism at various times was correlated with the influx of protein and myeloperoxidase activity in the iris-ciliary body.
(11) A decrease in the levels of IRI, C-peptide and biological activity of serum insulin in the 1st group indicated a possibility of type I diabetes mellitus in such patients.
(12) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(13) Iris prolapse did not interfere with the procedure.
(14) While there are many potential causative factors, erroneous concepts of IOL positioning and design appear to have led to PBK with many iris-supported and anterior chamber lens styles.
(15) Examples include the specific pattern of hypodontia seen before the development of iris dysplasia in Rieger syndrome, and the presence of supernumerary teeth and facial osteomas preceding malignant transformation of intestinal polyps in Gardner syndrome.
(16) Soft lenses also provide the options of disposability and of iris color change.
(17) Fluorescence angiography of the iris was performed on 135 patients with diabetes mellitus.
(18) These increases paralleled the in vitro rise in iris [3H]norepinephrine ([3H]NE) uptake, a measure of the presence of functional nerve terminal membrane.
(19) Pigmentations are significantly related to the colour of the iris (visible in 8% of blue irides, against in 40% of brown).
(20) Plasma C-peptide immunoreactivity (CPR) and immunoreactive insulin (IRI) increased during the infusion.