(n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
(n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
(n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
(n.) The face of a coal working.
(n.) The front of a furnace.
(n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
(n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
(v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
Example Sentences:
(1) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(2) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(3) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(4) Breast temperatures have been measured by the automated instrumentation called the 'Chronobra' for 16 progesterone cycles in women at normal risk for breast cancer and for 15 cycles in women at high risk for breast cancer.
(5) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
(6) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
(7) PAF was found in almost all carcinoma, although it was not detected in most of the matched, nontumor breast tissue samples.
(8) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(9) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(10) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(11) 10 women in the study developed carcinoma in the same or opposite breast within 16-20 years, a rate of incidence 480% greater than among the general population of women of the same age.
(12) The ability of ligand to stimulate its own synthesis and that of its receptor suggests the presence of an autocrine positive feedback loop, however we were unable to break this loop in the breast cancer cells by antibodies that blocked the interaction of TGF alpha with the EGF receptor.
(13) The most frequent primary tumours were: carcinoma of the breast (37%), lung (25%), kidney (16%), rectum (9%).
(14) Zinc alpha-2 glycoprotein (ZnGP) was measured in human breast microcysts, breast secretions, breast cyst fluid and serum.
(15) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(16) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(17) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(18) Advanced breast cancer responds to a range of cytotoxic agents, but resistance always develops.
(19) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.
(20) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
Pap
Definition:
(n.) A nipple; a mammilla; a teat.
(n.) A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.
(n.) A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.
(n.) Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap.
(n.) The pulp of fruit.
(v. t.) To feed with pap.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(2) At 1 month after the start of the treatment, normalization of PAP or gamma-Sm was not reflected in the following course.
(3) The activity of GP sulfotransferase was mainly distributed in the microsomal fraction, and was proportional to the incubation time, substrate (mucous GP) concentration and [35S]-PAPS concentration.
(4) The K5 polysaccharide was N-deacetylated (by hydrazinolysis) and N-sulphated, and was then incubated with detergent-solubilized enzymes from a heparin-producing mouse mastocytoma, in the presence of adenosine 3'-phosphate 5'-phospho[35S] sulphate ([35S]PAPS).
(5) We propose to call the pokeweed antiviral protein isolated from pokeweed cells PAP-C. 3.
(6) ATP sulfurylases from Penicillium chrysogenum, Penicillium duponti, Aspergillus nidulans, and Neurospora crassa are strongly inhibited by 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS), the product of the second (adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate kinase-catalyzed) reaction in the two-step activation of inorganic sulfate.
(7) The relationship between mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and alveolar pressures, at varying tidal volumes and opposing variable pressure to expiratory flow, was studied in 14 healthy dogs at the end of inspiration and at the end of expiration.
(8) There was significant correlation between PAP and PRA (r = 0.5643 P less than 0.01).
(9) A large number of immunogold stained GABAergic axon terminals were found to be presynaptic to strongly PAP immunostained serotonergic perikarya and dendrites.
(10) BPH alone leads to significant rises in PAP concentrations.
(11) Fourteen (9.6 percent) had a positive Pap test and 13 (9 percent) carried a cervical HPV infection as determined by the commercially available ViraPap and ViraType nucleic acid tests.
(12) We assayed prostatic specific antigen (PSA) and prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) serum levels in 1305 subjects without malignant prostatic pathology by double antibody RIA I125 to evaluate their specificity.
(13) This study showed that B43-PAP can effectively eradicate leukemic progenitor cells freshly obtained from patients with common B-lineage ALL.
(14) Despite its dominance, the PAP continues to fiercely restrict freedom of assembly and speech.
(15) During the acute phase, it decreased more for trypsinogen I and chymotrypsinogen B than for amylase and lipase, whereas synthesis of the PAP increased dramatically.
(16) However, with severe hypovolemia, marked reductions in PAP may occur with discontinuance of mechanical ventilation.
(17) Ultrastructural investigations involved a novel method whereby thick sections of gluteraldehyde-fixed material were cut on a vibratome and then labelled using slight modifications of a standard unlabelled antibody-enzyme (PAP) technique, before further processing.
(18) The true Km and Kia values for PAPS were both 0.35 microM, while the true Km value for phenol was 2.8 microM.
(19) Short and long term administration of vasodilator drugs to patients with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAP) effects small falls of PAP and larger reductions of pulmonary vascular resistance due to increases of cardiac output.
(20) The distribution of Pap smears during the year shows that the numbers diminished during the summer and rose during autumn.