(1) Fibrinogen was scattered in the intercellular spaces, and located in the inner layer or edges of the thickened intima of the bifurcation with increasing plaque formation.
(2) In 60 patients, we examined 75 femoral bifurcations by duplex scanning and compared them with the independently performed angiography.
(3) Pathogenetically, the delta formation may represent an intermediate stage in the bifurcation process of a polydactylic ray.
(4) DNA oligodeoxynucleotides have been synthesized that enable these hypotheses to be tested; of particular interest is the combination of effects due to bifurcation (2) and methylation of the pyrimidines nucleotides (3).
(5) To elucidate the mechanism of migration of vascular smooth-muscle cells (SMCs) from media to intima, we have investigated the phenotypic modulation of the medial SMC at bifurcation of the celiac artery in 5 children and 3 young persons using a transmission electron microscope.
(6) The diagnostic accuracy of 5 MHz continuous-wave (C-W) Doppler with spectral analysis for detecting carotid bifurcation disease was evaluated.
(7) Although the most common pattern is for the right coronary artery to bifurcate at the crux giving the posterior descending (posterior interventricular) artery, a branch may arise before the crux, either as an aberrant acute marginal artery or as an early posterior descending artery, crossing the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle.
(8) The optimal geometry of the vascular bifurcation is interpreted on the basis of the principle of minimum work.
(9) Platelet accumulation was significantly higher at arterial branching points, 70% higher at intercostal artery bifurcations, and 150% higher at coronary artery bifurcations than in unbranched aortic intima.
(10) Therefore, we believe the indications for femorofemoral graft should be broadened to include all patients with unilateral aortoiliac occlusive disease where anatomic conditions are favorable and there is unilateral occlusion of an aortic bifurcation graft.
(11) Some part of bifurcations of arterioles showed a prominent localized vasoconstriction, and occasionally showed a complete luminal obstruction.
(12) Aortic bifurcation grafts should be used to construct the distal anastomoses beyond areas of significant disease.
(13) Some axons bifurcated into an ascending and a descending branch within the funiculi.4.
(14) Perforation of the bifurcation was well tolerated without later sequelae.
(15) A 65-year-old woman experienced transient paralysis of the left arm immediately after palpation of the right carotid artery; at surgery, a friable, atherosclerotic plaque was removed from the bifurcation of the artery.
(16) A case of a basilar bifurcation aneurysm associated with common carotid artery occlusion is reported.
(17) The carotid injection technique was modified by catheter implantation in the external carotid artery at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery.
(18) Right and left jugular vein segments were isolated by surgical technique for a 3 cm length, which included the bifurcation of the vessel, and left "in situ".
(19) The key element of the system is the bifurcation: depending on whether bifurcations are considered as a single entity or as a whole, either "local" or "global" geometry is employed.
(20) Carotid angiography, which was conducted in all cases, revealed a richly vascularized tumor in the region of the carotid artery bifurcation with characteristic "angulation" and "cuff" signs.
Dichotomy
Definition:
(n.) A cutting in two; a division.
(n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
(n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
(n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
(n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked.
(n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I have always been of the view that it is a false dichotomy, and one that is pretty much built-in by our education system unfortunately," he said this weekend.
(2) In the present article, we characterize this dichotomy with examples from the literature, and we apply an adaptive priming procedure for testing discrete versus continuous activation models.
(3) The reason for this apparent dichotomy between opportunity and reality seems to be related to the industry's lack of emphasis on genetic improvement.
(4) Their differences highlight Northern Ireland’s often stark dichotomy between religious-based social conservatism and secular progressive liberalism.
(5) Scotland’s politics must snap out of its tribalism and recover the conventional left-right dichotomy.
(6) Linear discriminant analysis of the subtests disregarding the verbal-performance dichotomy yielded considerable increase in hit-rate in prediction of laterality of lesion.
(7) Moreover, the response profile of isolated 38+ thymocytes was analogous to peripheral 38+ T cells, suggesting that the dichotomy of function detected with our mAb also occurs before acquisition of 110 antigen.
(8) In the past, the notion of the "education-service dichotomy" concerned the divergent priorities of academia and the clinical care delivery setting.
(9) These results demonstrate that cytochalasin D has a biphasic effect on luteal progesterone release in the rat and provides an explanation for the dichotomy of results thus far reported.
(10) Soyinka's dichotomy of dreams and nightmares continues to resonate in Africa and beyond
(11) This paper discusses the dichotomy between continually moving eyes and the lack of blurred visual experience.
(12) Dendrites stratified predominantly in the inner sublamina of the inner plexiform layer (IPL) with a varying number of branches from the remaining dendrites contained within the outer IPL, both strata presumably corresponding to the electrophysiologically determined on-off dichotomy.
(13) This paper addresses the dichotomy between the low and high Li concentrations regarding the two bacterial parameters studied, as well as their possibly related cariogenic and cariostatic clinical relevance.
(14) Although radiotherapy cures a very high percentage of early stage patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD), there is a controversial dichotomy in the dose recommendations believed necessary to achieve greater than 95% local control: Whereas one school of thought is to administer 40-44 Gy, other reports claim equal results with about 36 Gy.
(15) Most of the traits studied are observed using ordinal scales with several grades, and many are tested using more than one dichotomy of their scale.
(16) Resuspended, virus-infected endothelial cells bound significantly less well to tissue-culture wells coated with both low (p less than 0.001) and high (p less than 0.05) concentrations of fibronectin as compared with uninfected endothelial cells, a dichotomy further worsened in the presence of granulocyte-released elastase.
(17) In addition, distribution of lead and cadmium varied within the individual producer (Fucus vesiculosus) in such a way that the holdfast exhibited the highest concentration followed by the apcial tip and the branches of the first dichotomy was the lowest.
(18) Prior studies have been based on several problematic assumptions: (1) specific behavioral abnormalities are associated with NOFTT, (2) NOFTT is a homogeneous population, and (3) a strict dichotomy between organic and environmental influences on physical growth is a valid distinction.
(19) In particular, we show how the PDP framework provides an alternative to the usual dichotomy between automatic and controlled processing and can explain the relative nature of automaticity as well as the fact that seemingly automatic processes can be influenced by attention.
(20) There is no evidence that these subjects can be divided into a simple dichotomy of those with physical or mental illnesses, or that pain measures can discriminate between them.