(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
(a.) Having large or prominent bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(2) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(3) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
(4) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
(5) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
(6) Most patients had pulmonary metastases, two had bony metastases, and one had metastases in the iliac nodes.
(7) Technetium-99m (V)DMSA has been demonstrated in this study to be a useful imaging agent in patients with MCT, showing uptake in significantly more lesions and with better imaging qualities than [131I]MIBG, and with the ability to detect soft tissue as well as bony metastases.
(8) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(9) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
(10) The diagnosis of cervical injuries may be facilitated by following a logical pattern of analysis searching for abnormalities of alignment and anatomy, of bony integrity, of the cartilage or joint spaces, and of the soft tissues.
(11) All lesions but one were located extradurally, and patients with Stage D2 disease, by virtue of bony metastases, were therefore at greatest risk for development of neurologically compressive disease.
(12) A study was undertaken to assess whether CT measurements of the upper craniofacial skeleton accurately represent the bony region imaged.
(13) Three dimensional images reconstructed from two dimensional CT scans allow improved analysis of complex orbitocranial bony deformities.
(14) The utility of computerized tomography of the chest, in addition to the chest roentgenogram, in assessing the bony involvement of the thoracic tumor is illustrated.
(15) The value of unenhanced CT essentially is limited to the demonstration of bony changes.
(16) Applying the principles of mechanics, the authors have studied and compared the bony structures of the temporo-mandibular joint.
(17) However, separation of the capsule from the bony glenoid can be detected if a joint effusion is present to adequately distend the joint.
(18) Sixty-three per cent of the implants were operated in immediately after tooth extraction, whereas the rest were installed in a healed bony alveolar ridge.
(19) From the survey of another 21 patients having bony abnormalities at the craniovertebral junction, the first type of arterial anomaly described above was seen in 4 patients and associated with failure of segmentation of the embryonic sclerotome such as occipitalization of the atlas or Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(20) Five patients were found to have biopsy-proved extramedullary plasmacytomas without extension from an underlying bony focus.
Consistence
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Consistency
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
(2) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
(3) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(4) The NORPLANT-2 rod system on the other hand consists of only 2 rods.
(5) These four antigens consisted of S of MNSs blood group, Lua of Lutheran blood group, and K and Kpa of Kell-Cellano blood group.
(6) Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive.
(7) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(8) Maximal covalent binding of [4,5-14C]ronidazole to DNA also required four-electron reduction, consistent with previous studies of the covalent binding of this agent to immobilized sulfhydryl groups [Kedderis et al.
(9) However, there was no consistent protocol for the method or duration of drug administration.
(10) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(11) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
(12) Projection obliquity resulted in consistent underestimation of DPR angle.
(13) Control incubations revealed an inherent difference between the two substrates; gram-positive supernatants consistently contained 5% radioactivity, whereas even at 0 h, those from the gram-negative mutant released 22%.
(14) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(15) LH and FSH levels in the group which were given low dose progesterone only, rose consistently after BSO and these patterns were similar to those seen in the control group.
(16) The estimated DNA compaction ratio (approximately 3-fold) is consistent with a significant degree of nucleosome unfolding in the hyperstimulated BR genes.
(17) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
(18) Changes in renal renin levels after the administration of glycerol were not significant, although lower renal renin values were consistently found in rabbits with more severe impairment of renal function.
(19) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
(20) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.