(n.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.
(n.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.
(n.) A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.
(n.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hallmark of C. septicum infection is the absence of acute inflammatory cells in involved tissues or in bulla fluid.
(2) These criteria were typed as A through D starting with nuclear homogenization and passing through vesicle formation, bulla formation and finally ulceration.
(3) We recommend this skin incision for young patients with pneumothorax if the chest CT scan confirms that the bullae or blebs are localized to the apex of superior segment of the lower lobe.
(4) To test ciliary clearance, the fluid was placed in either the tympanum or the mastoid bulla.
(5) At the end of the experimental period, tissue specimens were obtained, and histomorphometric evaluation of the ventral bullae was performed.
(6) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
(7) The ciliary activity in the bulla was declined at any time examined.
(8) The eyes of certain marine gastropods including Aplysia and Bulla, contain circadian pacemakers, which produce a circadian rhythm of autogenous compound action potential (CAP) activity.
(9) These findings suggest that pulmonary bullae and eosinophilic pneumonia may be a rare manifestation of pulmonary aspergillosis.
(10) Vibrio vulnificus was isolated from blood and bullae in both patients.
(11) Twenty guinea pigs were immunized with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) intradermally and challenged with 5 mg of the same antigen in the tympanic bulla.
(12) In the present experiments, human temporal bones, guinea pigs' bullae and plastic models were used.
(13) Papillary dermal edema, subepidermal bullae, and spongiosis were prominent.
(14) Acute inflammation was followed by the development of highly vascular granulation tissue and formation of new bone within the middle ear bulla.
(15) The patient developed a confluent maculopapular erythema and large flaccid bullae of trunk, legs, feet and mucous membranes, with fever up to 38 degrees C. Toxic epidermal necrolisis (TEN) was supposed and the diagnosis was confirmed by a skin patch test followed by cutaneous biopsy.
(16) This method makes it possible to examine both mediastinal pleura and adhesive pleural space, and to electrocoagulate bullae which cannot be visualized by a rigid thoracoscope.
(17) The time for complete absorption of these circumscribed subretinal bullae ranged from 8 to 52 weeks (mean 22.7 weeks).
(18) Favorable radiographic findings included well-defined, large air spaces without stigmata of diffuse emphysema, serial films showing rapid enlargement of bullae, and expiration films with good thoracic motion and obscuration of lung around bullae.
(19) Surgical procedures included lobectomy (n = 317), pneumonectomy (n = 41), wedge resection (n = 82), resections of blebs or bullae (n = 17), thoracotomy and biopsy for unresectable lesion (n = 6), and decortication (n = 5).
(20) The latter may have been related to the circumferential distribution of the bullae around each lung.
Testicle
Definition:
(n.) One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ureter was connected to the epididymis of the testicle.
(2) On 89 regularly descended, autoptically obtained testicles, the following morphometric investigations were performed: Calculations of the volums, the mean diameter of the tubuli seminiferi, the total lenght of the tubuli, the mean content of spermatogonia per cross section of one tubulus seminiferus, and the total number of spermatogonia.
(3) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(4) The majority of testicular germ cell tumors in adults are accompanied by neoplastic intratubular germ cells; these cells were uniformly absent in ten pure yolk sac tumors (endodermal sinus tumors) of the testicle in children studied morphologically and immunohistochemically.
(5) The earlier the treatment of congenital dystopic testicles is performed the larger are the chances of a development of the tubules corresponding to age.
(6) Inferiority complexes are not frequent, 81.2% of the men do not suffer from inferiority complexes and the remaining 18% suffer from an inferiority complex associated with the loss of the testicle or inadequate ejaculation of semen.
(7) The incidence of Sertoli cell tumors and seminoma was approximately twice as high in dogs with unilaterally retained inguinal testicles as in abdominal cryptorchids.
(8) On the other hand, metastases in the epididymis of extraurinary adenocarcinomas most of which were digestive, were not discovered until the increased size and pain in the testicle attracted the patient's attention and the exploration led to the identification of the tumour in the epidiymis (2, 4, 5).
(9) We feel that this is an appropriate procedure to be used in patients who have lost the testicles and scrotum traumatically, either one or both testicles, or in the situation where both testicles have been spared.
(10) In conditions with retention of the testicles in the upper inguinal region LH-RH proved to be more successful than gonadotropin.
(11) Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone inhibit the contractions at lower doses and stimulate the contractions at higher doses and thus may regulate the transport of spermatozoa from the rat testicle.
(12) This disparity from testicular lymphatic drainage of the rat suggests that the immunologic privilege, if any, in mice and guinea pigs has an alternative explanation (e.g., lymphatic effect of steroidal factors emanating from the testicles or adrenal gland and altering the response to foreign graft).
(13) "He couldn't stop interfering … He once made me so angry I had to lead him away by the testicles."
(14) Except for the tibia, muscle, and brain, stable zinc decreased in all tissues of calves fed the 1500 ppm lead diets, and differences were significant in pancreas, heart, and testicle.
(15) Oxygen uptake was significantly lower in the pituitary gland and testicles of malnourished males than of controls.
(16) Ultrasonic examination is recommended preoperatively in boys with non-palpable testicles in order to provide optimal surgical intervention.
(17) In this manner, he was able to act out (by virtue of his body-testicle equation) his identification with, and control over, the disappearing testicles in the setting of a claustrophilic union with the mother.
(18) Statistically postoperative parameters all were significantly improved and the left testicle volume increased.
(19) Depression of spermatogenesis and decrease in the mean seminiferous tubular size was seen in the "normal" testicle after unilateral torsion.
(20) Other findings included: small seminal vesicles in 1.6% of examinations (Brahman breed highest with 8.6%, P less than .001), enlarged ampullae, 1.9%, 'soft' testicles, 3.4% and small testicles, 7.5%.