(a.) Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.
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Rugose
Definition:
(a.) Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
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(1) This choice is controlled by a parameter of rugosity (the atomic radius).
(2) Stimulation of acid secretion rearranges 80K to a more rugose pattern filling the entire cell.
(3) The alterations caused by the atheroma do not seem to be induced by local modifications or rugosity, but by slow modifications of the local diameter.
(4) A clinical pilot study oriented toward the practical value of gastric fold assessment offers the follow: (1) Younger patients (below 60 years) with carcinomas may have rugose stomachs as opposed to the more usual presentation in the elderly.
(5) Under appropriate conditions of growth colonies showing fine wrinkling (rugosity) of their surface and characteristic of certain BCG strains can be distinguished from colonies with a smoother non-rugose morphology that are characteristic of some other BCG strains.
(6) The placental unit consists of: (1) an umbilical stalk; (2) the smooth, proximal portion of the placenta; (3) the distal, rugose portion; (4) the egg envelope; and (5) the maternal uterine tissues.
(7) In the foal with chronic disease, the mucosa of the large intestine was thickened, rugose, and mottled red-tan.
(8) In the third period, after week 15, the endolymphatic sac more or less seems mature with a rugose appearance in its proximal portion and a more even, slit-like appearance in the distal portion.
(9) There was a very marked difference between the two strains in the evolution of such 'drop-colonies', and it appeared that the lateral spread of fine rugosity from those of the Pasteur strain represented an enhanced ability of small numbers of bacilli to take up the nutrient.
(10) Attachment sites are highly vascular, rugose elevations of the maternal uterine lining that interdigitate with the fetal placenta.
(11) C. pyloridis has a smooth not a rugose surface and multiple unipolar flagella of the sheathed type, each with a terminal bulb.
(12) Pathology of the VA and ES was studied by measuring the sizes of the VA and ES, paying particular attention to the proximal rugose portions.
(13) The viruses dealt with are canavalia acronecrosis, mosaico de canavalia, cassia yellow spot, cowpea green vein-banding, cowpea rugose mosaic and cowpea severe mottle.
(14) It is characterized clinically by a curious rugose thickening of the palms with an accentuation of the normal dermatoglyphic ridges and sulci.
(15) A group of 16 male patients with infertility had dermatitis of the scrotum and groins giving lichenified oedematous skin; the resulting thickening and loss of rugosity produced a characteristic appearance that we have termed wash leather scrotum.
(16) In vitro exposure of full-term placentae to solutions of trypan blue and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) reveals little uptake by the smooth portion of the placenta but rapid absorption by the surface epithelial cells of the distal, rugose portion.
(17) A histologic and anatomic investigation of the symphyseal region in rabbits did not reveal a bony fusion between the two halves of the mandible; these two bones are united in the anterior part by a synchrondrosis, and a definite histologic suture with interdigitating bony rugosities and interposed connective tissue, in the posterior part.
(18) The mild form showed only bilateral rugose thickening of the palate, whereas the severe form showed gingival hyperplasia in addition to changes in the palatal mucosa.
(19) The distal rugose portion of the placenta is the fetal attachment site.
(20) The surface of egg shell was relatively smooth, without rugose albuminous coat.