(n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Carcinology
Definition:
(n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
Example Sentences:
(1) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(2) In pleural carcinology, TMs can be used as part of various methods which may be biochemical (assays of the marker in serum and, more important, in pleural fluid), cytochemical or immunocytochemical, histochemical or immunohistochemical, cytogenetic and cytofluorimetric.
(3) The carcinologic surgical excision of esophageal cancers is still the best treatment today.
(4) The authors report about a retrospective study on 52 cases of malignant tumors of the maxillary sinus gathered from January 1, 1977 to December 31, 1985 in the Department of Cervicofacial and ENT Carcinological Surgery of the Salah Azaïz Institut in Tunis.
(5) Carcinologic follow up is still insufficient for several techniques used, preventing any precise conclusions to be drawn, but the authors consider it is justifiable to perform 66% of partial as against 34% of total laryngectomies.
(6) Hitherto, there have been few means to assess the immediate and secondary sequellae following the anatomic upheaval of buccopharyngeal carcinological exeresis.
(7) A review of the literature shows that in these repeated procedures, the only good results, carcinologically, are observed when the original procedure consisted in a recto-colic anastomosis.
(8) Labelling of the atheromatous plaque by a hematoporphyrin derivative (HPD), as exemplified in the carcinological process, cancels the superficial reflectivity and strongly reduces the diffusion coefficient in the plaque.
(9) The results are expressed according to different carcinologic parameters.
(10) Cervico-facial carcinology is currently one of the major concerns of oto-rhino-laryngologists.
(11) Thus, the prognosis may be good if the carcinologic rules are respected.
(12) Surgery is the only hope but the excision must be carcinologic.
(13) In this article, after reviewing the different possibilities for cheek reconstruction consecutive to carcinologic excision, we specify the choice method for closure, according to the anatomical type of substance loss incurred.
(14) These operations were performed for diseases of the biliary tract in 248 cases (28%), colon or rectum in 238 cases (27%), stomach or duodenum in 130 cases (15%), small bowel in 32 cases (1.6%), oesophagus in 16 cases (1.8%), and for peritoneal carcinologic dissemination in 26 cases (3%).
(15) The authors remind: cancerous disease's possibilities of description before any treatment through its topography, its morphology and its clinical medicine; the modalities for taking surgical, actinic, chemical, immunologic therapeutics in account; the technics of the cancerous disease supervision after treatment, from the vital points of view (study of observed and relative survival, and of recovery) and from the carcinologic and fonctionnal points of view.
(16) Most often carcinologic therapies have not been used in previously reported cases.
(17) The authors conclude that this method does not compromise the carcinological result and provides a good functional result with low ratings for complications, with in addition an adequate support for the organ, favouring increased resections.
(18) This technique appeals to us because it is easy to use, reliable and carcinologically safe.
(19) Pharmacological, carcinological and virological studies on a cellular scale are within the bounds of possibility.
(20) This removes the prostate, seminal vesicles, vas ampullae and Denonvilliers aponeurosis en bloc, while scrupulously following the classical rules of carcinologic resection.