(1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(2) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(3) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(4) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(5) The lipid A moiety was shown to be responsible for this novel biological activity of the LPS molecule.
(6) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(7) Biological magnification of insecticides and PCB's occurred in both lakes.
(8) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(9) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
(10) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
(11) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(12) The analysis of blood lead concentration revealed an evident biological response to this environmental change: there was a decrease in blood lead level between 1977 and 1987, in both the countryside (control group) and, to a lesser extent, in the city.
(13) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
(14) Thus, introduction of arginine in position 5 with a hydrophobic amino acid in position 6 is compatible with high potency in several biological systems and results in compounds with lowered potency to release histamine compared to homologous peptides with tyrosine in position 5 and D-arginine in position 6.
(15) The crystal structure of the biological stain, "acridine orange," has been determined.
(16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(17) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
(18) That’s important, because Ebola is the Isis of biological agents .
(19) Men older than 75 showed a slightly higher mortality during the first year, but there were seemingly no relationships of tumor-biological or clinical significance between age at diagnosis and long-term relative survival.
(20) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
Biometry
Definition:
(n.) Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of them may be obtained from complex macro- and microscopical investigations with the use of biometry and mathematical statistics.
(2) Biometry of different ganglial structures was performed by G.G.
(3) 8 dystrophic neonates with a biometry that revealed IUGR were compromised by perinatal asphyxia.
(4) In this framework it is the responsibility of biometry to both to guarantee the use of a valid study design to assure interpretation of the results and to quantify the reliability of pharmacological and clinical considerations.
(5) Growth and remodelling of the first cervical vertebra were studied in the rat by means of biometry, vital staining (alizarin red S and oxytetracycline), and histology.
(6) It was shown that the surveying echography, biometry and acoustic orbitonometry facilitate the task of differential diagnosis, allow the localization and size of the tumor to be detected and help to control the results of the treatment.
(7) The changes of the intraocular distances provoked by oculopression (10 min, 40 mm HG) were explored by ultrasonic biometry.
(8) Preoperative ultrasonic biometry is indispensible in cataract surgery in order to calculate the power of the intraocular lens to be implanted.
(9) The variation in results due to inaccurate biometry are statistically assessed.
(10) For biometry an Ocuscan DBR 400-ST unit is used; the corneal refraction (r0) is measured with an automatic keratometer (Humphrey).
(11) The possibilities of ultrasound biometry for determining gestational age were presented.
(12) If fetal biometry rather than last menstrual period were used to determine gestational age, four of the 19 (21.0%) cerebellar measurements were greater than 2 SD below the mean.
(13) Renal biometry of the fetus was carried out on 1200 women when exogenous difference between renal and surrounding tissue became distinct.
(14) To define more precisely both the clinical and sonographic parameters associated with IUGR, we studied the following variables: routine fetal biometry (biparietal diameter, head circumference, abdominal circumference, and femur length), fetal weight percentile, amniotic fluid volume, and an antenatal scoring system for IUGR.
(15) If retinoscopy is impossible due to pin-point pupils, ultrasonic biometry to determine the axial length is recommended.
(16) Examination included standard biometry, blood pressure measurement, 12-lead (centrally Minnesota coded) electrocardiography, and central laboratory measurement of serum cholesterol and creatine.
(17) Using dissection, biometry, and two three-dimensional mechanical models, the postnatal changes of the rabbit masticatory muscles were studied by analyzing their three-dimensional orientation, their strength and fiber lengths, and certain functional consequences of these changes.
(18) Details of tissue and biometry are largely enhanced.
(19) Several unexpectedly high refractive errors occurred in the group of patients who did not have biometry.
(20) Sonographic biometry and the knowledge about the uncomplicated postoperative course render postsurgical monitoring easier and more reliable.