(a.) Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(2) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(3) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(4) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
(5) The amount of it was in correlation with the stage of the calcification.
(6) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(7) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
(8) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
(9) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
(10) The nucleator of Bacterionema matruchotii calcification was characterized.
(11) Non-inflammatory calcific disease of the mitral valve apparatus is a common finding in elderly patients.
(12) Poor prognostic indicators included oligohydramnios (20 of 21 subsequently died), absence of caliectasis (20 of 24 died), a large amount of urine ascites (five of six died), and dystrophic bladder wall or peritoneal calcification (five of five subsequently died).
(13) Before bone formation, a specific calcification process was found in most of the BMG from day 5 and 7 after implantation.
(14) The author maintains that the osteoma of the brachial muscle as well as post-traumatic periarticular calcifications, occur in the muscle mass or in the tendon that prolongs it, or in the articular capsule, as a result of surgical treament and post-operative immobilization, and only exceptionally following orthopaedic treatment of traumatic lesions.
(15) We suggest that scintigraphic evidence of metabolic bone disease is present at the onset of terminal uremia with much higher frequency than is detectable by radiographs, and that unsuspected soft tissue calcification may also be detected on occasion.
(16) Plain abdominal radiography demonstrated calcification in three patients and evidence of Thorotrast (thorium dioxide) deposition in one.
(17) CT shows greatest promise in abdominal aortic scanning, where reliable identification of the aorta can be achieved even in the absence of enlargement or calcification.
(18) The importance of the coexistence of both enzymes for the control of initial calcification of dental hard tissues is suggested.
(19) Fibrous astrocytes, myofibroblasts, lymphocytes, macrophages, and calcification were found respectively in two cases, and fibroblast-like cells were found in one case.
(20) The recognition of sedimented calcifications present in about 4% of symptomatic women undergoing mammography is important because these characteristic calcifications are an indication of benignity.
Eggshell
Definition:
(n.) The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
(n.) A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that .1% dietary TU from 47 to 57 wk of age did not alter eggshell quality and that dietary AA at the 100 ppm level did not influence the effects of .1% TU on body weight, egg production, or egg weight of SCWL hens.
(2) Eggshells of the eoacanthocephalans Neoechinorhynchus rutili (Neoechinorhynchidae) and Paratenuisentis ambiguus (Tenuisentidae) were investigated for their fine structure and their chemical composition.
(3) The results indicated that fasting periods of less than 10 days may yield satisfactory egg production and egg weight but that eggshell quality may be enhanced by using fasting periods of 10 days or longer.
(4) When present during the egg activation process monodansylcadaverine (MDC-a fluorescent lysine analog) inhibits eggshell hardening and at the same time becomes covalently incorporated into the eggshell.
(5) The purpose of this study was to compare the protein species composing the eggshell matrix in different parts of the shell structure, by SDS-PAGE and chromatography, utilising eggshell cleaned by different methodologies.
(6) Unlike the more robust political debate about Saudis in Washington, discussion in the UK has often been an exercise in walking on eggshells.
(7) No immunological cross-reactions were observed between the two antisera, and eggshell proteins and vitellogenin were detected in blood plasma and somatic tissues only in estradiol-treated cod.
(8) These results, together with the observations that eggshell hydrolysates are very rich in glycine but poor in methionine, suggested that the 34 kDa putative eggshell precursor protein of S. japonicum consists of at least three isoelectric forms.
(9) Egg production records were kept continuously, and eggshell thickness, egg weight, hatchability of eggs, and hen body weights were measured at selected times.
(10) We tested the hypothesis that altitude-induced hypocapnia in hens reduces eggshell conductance to water vapor (GH2O).
(11) Thymoma usually showed a solid mass with lobulation and sometimes had an eggshell type of calcification in the tumor.
(12) Eggshells were concentrated in the same habitat as eggs, suggesting that eggshells may be used to identify oviposition patterns.
(13) Chronic ingestion of DDT resulted in production of eggshells that were significantly thinner and lighter than those of controls.
(14) Dietary T3 depressed eggshell water vapor conductance compared to CON.
(15) This secondary structure is the underlying molecular conformation, dictating the formation of the helicoidal architecture of the eggshell.
(16) Pores of the avian eggshell provide the only communicating channels for the exchange of molecules between the developing embryo and the external environment.
(17) Eggshell calcification may occur in lymph nodes, and eventually the diseases may be complicated by the development of large massive areas of fibrosis in the upper lung zones.
(18) We asked to what extent, within a species, differences in egg mass, hence in eggshell surface area and O2 conductance, could affect the development of the avian embryo.
(19) Eggshell quality and values for a blood indicator of acid-base balance were reduced by high levels of dietary P or Cl in all of the experiments.
(20) For the measurements, a part of the eggshell and the shell membranes were removed.