What's the difference between blotchy and smeared?

Blotchy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having blotches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measles can spread when it reaches a community in the US where groups of people are unvaccinated.” The highly contagious viral respiratory disease is often accompanied by a blotchy rash, fever, runny nose, cough, body aches, watery eyes or pink eye and tiny white spots in the mouth.
  • (2) The skin lesions, the hallmark of this condition, are distributed in a linear or blotchy pattern and include congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, systematized atrophoderma mainly involving the hair follicles, and circumscribed alopecia.
  • (3) These abnormalities in the lung of the Blotchy mouse suggest that the defects of the connective tissue proteins described in skin and aorta also involve the lung.
  • (4) Static air and saline pressure-volume curves show that lungs of Blotchy mice have decreased elastic recoil and are significantly more compliant than normal.
  • (5) The hyperkeratoses of the newborn as well as the ensuing atrophoderma predominantly involve the hair follicles and are distributed in a bizarre linear or blotchy pattern.
  • (6) RDS shows pandysautonomia, including alacrima, orthostatic hypotension, gastrointestinal paresis, and paroxysmal hyperautonomic state, such as hypertension, vomiting crisis, and blotchy erythema.
  • (7) In this regard, the whitish pigment pattern of skin fragments is compared to the tiny black spots found on anti-FN treated skin fragments and the abundant blotchy spots found on skin cultured alone.
  • (8) Our studies of liver copper metabolism were conducted in the mottled (blotchy) mouse, an animal model of KHS.
  • (9) Aortic aneurysms develop in blotchy mice in a consistent fashion, with characteristic gross and histologic changes.
  • (10) Interpol officers hope that a blotchy and pixelated photo of him may help to trigger a memory somewhere.
  • (11) Autografts then became pale, took on the appearance of normal skin with the inflammatory changes subsiding, whereas homografts became firm, showed heavy mononuclear cell infiltration, had a blotchy purple appearance due to thrombosis and haemorrhage, developed widespread necrosis and changed into a black hard scab which was eventually shed.
  • (12) Menkes' disease (classical and mild variant forms) and X linked Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (type IX, X linked cutis laxa) have features in common with one another and with the brindled (Mobr) and blotchy (Moblo) mouse mutants, respectively.
  • (13) Male normal and blotchy mice 1 to 8 months of age were killed and latex was injected into the left ventricles to facilitate exposure, examination, histologic sampling, and photography of the aorta.
  • (14) The murine mottled mutants brindled, Mo br, and blotchy, Mo blo, are valuable animal models for the study of mammalian copper metabolism.
  • (15) It is a blotchy hyperpigmentation of the face which can be a disfiguring cosmetic and emotional problem.
  • (16) Finally, metallothionein-I mRNA content was not elevated in blotchy kidneys at early developmental stages, before storage of excessive copper.
  • (17) While metallothionein-I messenger RNA (mRNA) concentrations were elevated in blotchy fibroblasts, the elevations in metallothionein-I mRNA in response to metallothionein inducers (cadmium, copper) were similar in blotchy and control cells.
  • (18) An animal model is provided by mice hemizygous for mutant alleles, such as the blotchy allele, at the X-linked mottled locus.
  • (19) These data show a reduced biliary excretion of copper in the blotchy mouse, in the absence of a defect in hepatic copper uptake.
  • (20) In the blotchy mouse and in cultured skin fibroblasts derived therefrom, we showed that the mutation specifically affects the metabolism of copper and not other trace metals.

Smeared


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Smear

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
  • (2) The other 3 groups all had smear patterns similar to controls.
  • (3) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
  • (4) Four study groups were investigated using the Kato faecal smear method.
  • (5) Distribution of cells in these smears was found to be random.
  • (6) Subsequently, the inflammatory reaction diminishes, as can be seen on smears from tympanic effusions.
  • (7) All cases of MCT were correctly diagnosed on cytology, and amyloid could be demonstrated in the cytologic smears in three cases.
  • (8) Hosts showed vaginal opening within 5 days and cornified vaginal smears by 9 days.
  • (9) The absence of hemorrhagic manifestations with persisting low platelets counts led to a re-examination of peripheral blood smear and to the diagnosis of pseudothrombocytopenia.
  • (10) At diagnosis 25% showed malignant cells in the bone marrow smears.
  • (11) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
  • (12) The mean age of gravidae with doubtful smears is about 6 years beyond the mean age of gravidae with positive smears.
  • (13) Tissue imprints of rabbit liver and spleen and smears of human venous blood were stained and controlled microscopically.
  • (14) The unsatisfactory smear showed atypical spindle cells.
  • (15) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
  • (16) Using control blood smears, we compared the results of the Fetaldex kit with those results obtained by the Betke-Kleihauer technique.
  • (17) Fever was also associated with a higher incidence of lymphopenia, hyponatraemia, hypoalbuminaemia and many acid-fast bacilli on sputum smear.
  • (18) At necropsy 1 of the 21 animals exhibited tuberculous lesions, and acid-fast microorganisms were identified on direct smears of lymphatic tissue of a second animal.
  • (19) T lymphocyte subsets were identified with monoclonal antibodies and pattern of alpha-naphthyl-acetate esterase (ANAE) staining pattern in the case of peripheral blood and ANAE staining pattern with thyroid aspirate smears.
  • (20) Both patients had high levels of circulating capsular polysaccharide, and one patient had visible diplococci on a smear of the peripheral blood.

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