(a.) Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
(2) In Stage III unilateral nonbulky tumors, the pelvic failure rate was 28% compared with 45% to 50% for unilateral bulky lesions (P = 0.002).
(3) The individual micelles are relatively flat, ring-shaped structures, the center offering space for one of the two bulky sugar chains of the saponins.
(4) We describe the case of a 44 year old woman affected by gastric cancer, who only 10 months after such diagnosis and subsequent total gastrectomy, came to our observation with ascites and bulky peritoneal involvement.
(5) The estrogen receptor seems to have a moderate tolerance for bulky substituents: All of the halogen and halomethyl substituents bind with an affinity at least 50% that of estradiol; in the three atom alkyl series, the affinity declined markedly from propargyl (44%) and allyl (38%) to propyl (5%), suggestive of detailed steric constraints or a preference for unsaturation.
(6) Thorough bilateral lymphadenectomy can still be performed, but this technique avoids the principal morbidity of this operation except in some patients with bulky disease.
(7) Mammalian tissue DNA has recently been found, via 32P postlabeling, to contain complex profiles of age-dependent bulky carcinogen adductlike covalent modifications, which have been termed I-compounds, referring to their apparent indigenous origin without exposure to exogenous carcinogens.
(8) All of eight patients had relief from bulky intra-abdominal tumors.
(9) The amino-oligopeptidase of the intestinal brush border possesses high specificity for oligopeptides having bulky side chains and is a candidate for a crucial role in the overall assimilation of dietary protein.
(10) Induction with multiagent chemotherapy and radiotherapy to bulky disease-bearing areas (peripheral lymph nodes and mediastinum) was followed by consolidation, CNS prophylaxis, and cyclical remission maintenance therapy.
(11) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(12) In addition, the enzyme exhibits pronounced secondary specificity for a bulky residue, preferentially phenylalanine, in position P2 of substrates.
(13) The safety and efficacy of two devices in producing elevated temperatures in bulky deep tumours was evaluated in 11 patients with 12 tumours.
(14) An individualized approach is warranted, especially when there is an isolated bulky lesion involving the chest wall.
(15) (5) In a recent study of 23 patients undergoing resection of residual nonseminomatous testicular cancer after intensive chemotherapy, 21 had either teratoma in primary tumor or bulky metastatic disease.
(16) Abdominal findings are also similar for the two diseases, with the most common lesions appearing as low attenuation, hypoechoic masses in the solid abdominal organs; ulcerating nodular or diffusely infiltrating bowel lesions; and bulky retroperitoneal, mesenteric, or omental adenopathy.
(17) Biodistribution, imaging, and autoradiographic studies were performed in nude mice transplanted with four different human tumor cell lines to demonstrate the binding of radiolabeled antinuclear monoclonal antibodies within bulky tumors containing necrotic lesions.
(18) One hundred percent concordance between bilateral bulky parametrial involvement and positive pretreatment paraaortic nodes occurred in clinical stage IIIB and IVA patients with metastatic relapse.
(19) Study 1 concerned 667 patients treated in the period 1971-1979 without special measures for mediastinal bulky disease and with four-drug chemotherapy regimens (MOPP, COPP, ABVD) for stage B or IV.
(20) One hundred thirteen were treated at presentation with short courses of chemotherapy, most often with single-agent chlorambucil for bulky stage II and stages III and IV disease.
Busky
Definition:
(a.) See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cercariae of five flukes, which are potential human parasites, Opisthorchis viverrini (family Opisthorchiidae), Haplorchis taichui (Heterophyidae), Schistosoma spindale (Schistosomatidae), Fasciolopsis buski, and Fasciola gigantica (Fasciolidae) were found in freshwater snails from Laos.
(2) The abundance of infection due to A. malayanum, Fasciolopsis buski and G. hominis was high during late summer and early autumn.
(3) Four relatively new broad spectrum anthelmintics (thiabendazole, mebendazole, levamisole and pyrantel pamoate) were compared with two older anthelmintics, (tetrachloroethylene and hexylresorcinol) to treat heavy Fasciolopis buski infections in 17 children aged 4-13 years in hospital.
(4) Oxyhaemoglobins of six digenetic trematodes,--Srivastavaia indica, Gastrothylax crumenifer, Gigantocotyle explanatum, Fasciolopsis buski, Gastrodiscoides hominis, Isoparorchis hypselobagri, and of their 3 vertebrate hosts, Bubalus bubalis, Sus scrofa, Wallago attu, were subjected to alkali denaturation at a pH of 12.4.
(5) (12.4% for the village people over 20 years), Fasciolopsts buski (3.8% for the same group).
(6) The rate of infection due to A. malayanum, Fasciolopsis buski and G. hominis rose to a peak during June-September and thereafter declined to a low level (November-March).
(7) In a binding assay, this antibody also reacted with extracts of Trichuris suis, Ascaris suum, and Fasciolopsis buski, but not with extracts derived from Cysticercus cellulosae, Candida albicans, Salmonella typhi, or Escherichia coli.
(8) This crossreactivity was confirmed microscopically in which the cuticle, oviduct and eggs of T. suis, the cuticle, muscle cells, and eggs of A. suum, and the cuticle and vitelline glands of F. buski were seen to be clearly stained by the antibody.
(9) A crude antigen extract of larval Taenia solium was shown by immunodiffusion (ID) and immunoelectrophoresis (IEP) to cross-react with rabbit antisera against pig serum proteins and larval T. hydatigena, and by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with antisera against pig serum proteins, Fasciolopsis buski, larval T. hydatigena, hydatid cyst, Hymenolepis diminuta and Dipylidium caninum.
(10) The damage observed in vitro was very similar to that found in F. buski recovered from cured patients.
(11) Isoparorchis hypselobagri, from the fish Wallago attu, shows four to six times more enzyme activity than Fasciolopsis buski, Gastrodiscoides hominis and Echinostoma malayanum, from the pig Sus scrofa, and Fasciola gigantica, Gigantocotyle explanatum, Cotylophoron cotylophorum and Gastrothylax crumenifer, from the buffalo Bubalus bubalis.
(12) The haemoglobins of six different species of trematodes: Gastrothylax crumenifer, Srivastavaia indica, Gigantocotyle explanatum, Fasciolopsis buski, Gastrodiscoides hominis, Isoparorchis hypselobagri and their three different hosts: Bubalus bubalis, Sus scrofa, and Wallago attu were spectrophotometrically investigated, and were found to contain porphyrin IX as the common prosthetic group.
(13) The snail Helicorbis umbilicalis represents a new intermediate host of F. buski.
(14) Human intestinal flukes (Fasciolopsis buski and Heterophyes heterophyes) were treated with praziquantel in vivo or in vitro and then studied by transmission (TEM) and scanning (SEM) electron microscopy.
(15) Common species are Fasciolopsis buski, Echinostoma ilocanum, E. malayanum, E. revolutum and Haplorchis yokogawai.
(16) Quantitative estimation of absolute levels and in vitro release of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in seven species of digenetic trematodes: Isoparorchis hypselobagri from the swim bladder of catfish, Wallago attu; Srivastavaia indica and Gastrothylax crumenifer from the rumen, and Gigantocotyle explanatum from the liver of the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis; Fasciolopsis buski, Echinostoma malayanum from the small intestine and Gastrodiscoides hominis from the caecum of the pig, Sus scrofa revealed that the enzyme is present in remarkably high quantities in species which inhibit gastrointestinal tract compared with those that parasitize liver and swim bladder.
(17) Seasonal variations in the prevalence of Fasciola gigantica and Eurytrema pancreaticum in cattle, and Opisthorchis noverca, Artyfechinostomum malayanum, Fasciolopsis buski and Gastrodiscoides hominis in pigs, were studied post-necropsy over a 1 year period in a humid, subtropical north-east hilly region in India.
(18) The susceptibility of various mammals to infection with Fasciolopsis buski has been studied.
(19) The intestinal absorption of carbohydrate, fat, protein and vitamin B12, serum vitamin B12, serum and red cell folate levels were performed in 10 patients harbouring F. buski.
(20) The development of eggs of Fasciolopsis buski requires oxygen and the eggs cannot survive anaerobic conditions.