(a.) Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five cases of RMSs (including embryonal, botryoid, and alveolar types), various other soft tissue tumors, and 10-week gestation fetal muscle tissue were studied to demonstrate IGF-II transcripts by means of Northern blot hybridization and in situ mRNA hybridization using radio-labeled probes.
(2) In four of the six patients, the referring diagnosis was sarcoma botryoides.
(3) The patient had a polypoid lesion protruding from the vagina which was initially thought to be a sarcoma botryoides.
(4) The botryoid odontogenic cyst is a morphologic variant of developmental cysts of odontogenic epithelial residue, i.e., lateral periodontal cysts and gingival cysts.
(5) By the appearance of these globules, coronet cells are roughly divided into two types: botryoidal coronet cells and flower-like.
(6) Sarcoma botryoides (embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma) originating from the common bile duct is reported in a 4-year-old girl.
(7) Results of treating 14 patients with sarcoma botryoides of the female genital tract are reviewed.
(8) In a review of a national series of malignant tumors in middle-aged and elderly individuals (over 40 years of age), in all 107 cases primarily diagnosed and reported to the Swedish Cancer Registry as rhabdomyosarcomas during the period 1972-1981, 4 cases were accepted as botryoid, embryonal or alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, using light-microscopic criteria for the diagnosis.
(9) A müllerian adenosarcoma with heterologous elements having the gross appearance of a sarcoma botryoides occurred in the uterine cervix of a 14-year-old girl.
(10) This report describes six patients with endodermal sinus tumor of the vagina and cervix, a polypoid friable tumor whose clinical presentation in girls younger than age 3 years simulates the presentation of sarcoma botryoides.
(11) A case of sarcoma botryoides has been reported in a 10-month-old Nigerian female infant.
(12) Within one year after resection of the teratoma she developed peritoneal botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma, which probably originated from initially unrecognized rhabdomyoblasts in the teratoma.
(13) Light and electron microscopic studies of botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma of the larynx in an adult are presented.
(14) Different stages of cellular development were identified in the botryoid sarcomas, with the most immature cells of the cambium layer devoid of external basement membrane around the tumor cells, although the stroma contained finely dispersed basement membrane material and some cells contained intracytoplasmic laminin or type IV collagen, indicative of the synthesis of these proteins.
(15) On cystography, there was a polycyclic vesical filling defect resembling a parachute, which is specific of the botryoid variety and always leads to the right diagnosis.
(16) Only two of the ten botryoid odontogenic cysts were radiographically multilocular.
(17) Immunohistochemical methods were used to demonstrate the distribution of basement membrane laminin and type IV collagen in eight tumors derived from striated muscle (three botryoid, two alveolar, and two adult-type rhabdomyosarcomas; one benign vaginal rhabdomyoma).
(18) The botryoid odontogenic cyst (BOC) is a rare cyst of odontogenic origin originally described in 1973 by Weathers and Waldron as a variant of the lateral periodontal cyst.
(19) An electron-microscopic and immunohistochemical analysis was performed on the 4 cases along with 7 cases of botryoid, embryonal and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in patients of over 40 years of age obtained from our own files.
(20) A large obstructing choledochal tumour was found at the level of cystic duct insertion and at surgery, a botryoid sarcoma was removed.
Bunch
Definition:
(n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
(n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
(n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
(v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
(v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were a small bunch of daffodils and now they're blooming.
(2) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
(3) With Gringrich, Huntsman and Santorum in a deadheat, each will be seeking to find a message that will resonate and help them break out off the bunch.
(4) There were some shocking penalties in that bunch, none more so than Charlie Adam's.
(5) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(6) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(7) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(8) The fighters were bunched near the frontline on Dubai Street on the southern front occupied mainly by fighters from Misrata when the two rounds came in.
(9) Considering the whole bunch of data, about 80% of the patients had greater than 50% of their checks within the therapeutic range and more than 30% had greater than 75% of the checks within the range.
(10) The alternative is that cardiologists will disappear, to be replaced by a bunch of 'stunned' subspecialists.
(11) As a recovering graduate of an institution that played host to a similar bunch of charmers, all I can say is, so far, so humdrum.
(12) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(13) Australia, though, are proving a resourceful bunch and two tries in 10 minutes immediately prior to half-time reduced the margin to a single point.
(14) Will this show about a bunch of superheroes take flight or will fans just be too fatigued?
(15) The Farage adviser said he looked back on many people within Ukip as “a bunch of rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people who let Nigel down at every juncture.” He told the Guardian: “Someone needs to go in there with a big stick.
(16) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(17) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(18) Jason Donovan took a few seconds to read the messages stapled to cellophaned bunches of flowers.
(19) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(20) Pascal's 'thinking reed' really does capture it, because I'm just a bunch of dead muscles thinking."