(a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.
(a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everything looks good, the nurse said, and she pointed to a little white blotch: the indisputable sign that we were having a boy.
(2) Immune serum stains yeast cells to give a striking pattern of spots and blotches not seen with preimmune serum.
(3) In the national forest at Gribskov, Olrik points out an ash that has been cut down, how the beautiful light-coloured wood that makes ash so popular for furniture and other uses is discoloured and blotched.
(4) The Abyssinian is incompletely dominant to the striped and blotched alleles, whereas striped is completely dominant to the blotched.
(5) Based on the results of agar gel double immunodiffusion tests with broad spectrum rabbit antisera and narrow spectrum mouse immune ascitic fluids and formalin-fixed purified viruses, a close relationship was established between 3 members of the Cucumovirus group namely Robinia mosaic virus (RoMV), clover blotch virus (CBV) and peanut stunt virus (PSV).
(6) Three alleles of the tabby locus (T) have been identified, namely, Abyssinian (Ta), striped (T), and blotched (tb).
(7) Over the course of the last century, while blotched executions have fueled movement from one execution method to another, they have not posed a serious challenge to the continuing viability of death as a punishment.
(8) The amount of LL-N-(2-amino-2-carboxyethyl)aspartic acid which accumulates in the P. teres cultures is low, indicating that aspergillomarasmine A is the toxin which plays the major role in the pathological changes associated with the barley net-spot blotch disease.
(9) Both P. putida, the bacterium responsible for initiating basidiome development of A. bisporus, and P. tolaasii, the causal organism of bacterial blotch disease of the mushroom, displayed a positive chemotactic response to Casamino acids and to A. bisporus mycelial exudate.
(10) These data indicate that amino acid sequences of coat proteins of azuki bean mosaic virus, the Type and W strains of blackeye cowpea mosaic virus, three isolates (74, PM, PN) of a potyvirus obtained from soybean in Taiwan, and the Blotch and Mild Mottle strains of peanut stripe virus (PStV) may be very similar to the known sequence of PStV Stripe coat protein.
(11) The first is the apparent absence of blotched tabby and a relatively high frequency of Abyssinian tabby.
(12) All that is left of the grasslands here are yellowing blotches on a stony surface riddled with rodent holes.
(13) Abnormalities in MRI were high-intense spots, blotches and streaks, located predominantly in the periventricular area.
(14) Ten years later, purplish to brownish blotch and nodules accompanied with heating sensation and pain appeared and increased in size gradually on the left forearm.
(15) But look closely and there are telltale signs – purply discoloured blotches on his hands, a trellis of veins running through his cheeks like a Red Windsor cheese.
(16) Check for lumps and blotches ; try not to let anyone near your foreskin with a knife without good reason until you're old enough to know that is what you want; stick to soap and water rather than chemical gunk – and listen to Suzanne about the toaster thing.
(17) Among these cases, 6 patients have localization of perineum and 18 patients have local blotch pigmented papules.
(18) In two of the cases, reddish-purplish blotches over lower limbs, not raised and which blanched on pressure, was an unusual feature.
(19) Storage at 45 degrees and 75% relative himidity resulted in significant changes in most measured parameters; tablets showed blotching, substantial weight loss, and complex changes in disintegration and dissolution.
(20) Pseudomonas tolaasii Paine is the causal organism of the economically significant brown blotch disease of the cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Imbach.
Macula
Definition:
(n.) A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.
(n.) A rather large spot or blotch of color.
Example Sentences:
(1) (1) Microdissection of an isolated afferent artery with or without macula densa (MD) has revealed that renin release is regulated by NaCl exposure to MD.
(2) The entire macula utricili had disappeared in 10-week specimens.
(3) The auditory function of the sacculus in amphibians is confirmed and special attention is paid to functional heterogeneity of the receptor epithelium in the saccular maculae.
(4) Resorption of soft drusen at the macula in response to laser photocoagulation has been demonstrated previously.
(5) Careful studies have failed to reveal any cause for this excessive permeability response at the macula or any constantly associated medical abnormality.
(6) Morphometric analyses of the macula densa in streptozotocin diabetic rats have revealed, that the volume density of the large lateral intercellular spaces, which are present in normal animals between the macula densa cells, decreases significantly in magnitude from 8.7 to 1.5% in diabetic animals.
(7) Based on experience from 30 patients the usefulness of high resolution B-scan echography and colour Doppler flow imaging for evaluating lesions of the macula is discussed.
(8) Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed a single, white, elevated mass lesion surrounded by serous retinal detachment located in the upper part of the macula of the right eye.
(9) One hundred thirty-four consecutive eyes with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment involving the macula were evaluated with reference to the effectiveness of systemic steroids in preventing choroidal detachment after scleral buckling surgery and in facilitating both anatomic and functional success.
(10) A directed flow of calcium to developing otoconia from the supporting cells of the maculae is suggested.
(11) We studied sectioned maculae that were obtained from 41 patients with different genetic forms of RP: autosomal dominant (n = 11); X-linked (n = 9); and simplex (n = 21).
(12) Apart from the typical reticular pattern in the macula there were atrophic areas that could have resulted from progression of the dystrophy.
(13) The subjective signs of the syndrome are floating 'moths', photopsias presenting as a 'lateral lightning', sudden appearance of a central macula (central positive scotoma).
(14) Patients with macular lesions and central scotomata had larger amplitudes than patients with normal appearing maculae and no central scotomata.
(15) Examination showed bilateral serous detachment of the macula.
(16) Each hair cell is additionally polarized (III), in that its kinociliary group is inclined toward the plane of the macula surface, forming an angle of 40-60 degrees with it (Figs.
(17) These results demonstrate that the macula densa basement membrane and matrix material between extraglomerular mesangial cells is permeable to high molecular weight molecules and suggest unhindered diffusion of water and solutes within this area.
(18) An in vitro preparation of the saccular nerve, maintained in parallel, served to indicate the potential neural contribution to overall release from the macula.
(19) The cells are bound by maculae adherentes, zonulae occludentes and desmosome-like structures.
(20) In the distal tubule a macula densa segment was found in all nephrons of the reptilian and mammalian type.