What's the difference between carditis and muscle?
Carditis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients were diagnosed as having primary rheumatic carditis, 9 presented with tonsillogenic rheumatic carditis, and 16 had viral rheumatic carditis.
(2) Polyarthritis alone was present in 51 cases, carditis alone in 31, and combined carditis and polyarthritis in 28; chorea was diagnosed in 5.
(3) Carditis appeared to be rather benign: at the acute stage no patient developed congestive heart failure or any other serious complication.
(4) Of the total 47 episodes, carditis was manifested by a significant murmur without previous RF or any known rheumatic heart disease in 40%; change in the character of a murmur under observation or the appearance of a new murmur in 15%; and acute pericarditis in 19%.
(5) Persistent or reactivated rheumatic carditis may be a significant factor of valve failure, and penicillin prophylaxis is mandatory after operation.
(6) The rate of carditis (3 of 10 patients) was similar to that in older studies of adults with ARF.
(7) There was no evidence of carditis during these recurrences and all patients remained free of rheumatic heart disease 10 years after the initial attack.
(8) Cardiac failure was due to exacerbation of the carditis process on the one hand, and to disorders of the rhythm induced by dystrophy, sclerosis, fibroelastosis, and calcinosis in the cardiac septum on the other.
(9) Carditis, present in only eight (15%) of the adults, was mild and transient.
(10) Because of various manifestations (rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis, arthralgie, "red eye", neuritis, carditis) and different symptomatics the disease is misjudged over month and years.
(11) Fulminating active rheumatic carditis has been observed for over three decades in this environment with no recent alteration in either the incidence or the pattern of presentation.
(12) In the acute phase of carditis, circulating immune complexes were also measured, thus monitoring immunoreactivity.
(13) Additional features may include carditis, pericarditis, aneurysmal dilation and thrombosis of coronary arteries, and sudden death.
(14) This mouse is proposed as a model for Lyme borreliosis carditis, synovitis, and myositis.
(15) The data emphasize the suitability of the scid mouse as a model in which to study the role of the immune system in the pathogenesis of Lyme carditis.
(16) Eighteen patients with Kawasaki disease and suspected carditis (11 boys, 7 girls, mean age 18 months) in acute stages underwent Tc-99m HMPAO WBC imaging of the heart.
(17) Carditis resolved without antibiotic treatment and has not recurred.
(18) Carditis was the commonest manifestation and was seen in 28 (66.6%) children, followed by arthritis in 24 (57.1%), and chorea in 3 (7.1%).
(19) The incidence of acute carditis was 23% among the former, 46% among the latter (P less than or equal to 0.01), and 34% among the whole group.
(20) Some of the effector cells may be specific for cultured myocardial cells, but their role in the pathogenesis of rheumatic carditis will require further studies of lymphocytes from patients with acute rheumatic fever and carditis.
Muscle
Definition:
(n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.
(n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
(n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.
(n.) See Mussel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(2) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(3) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(4) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(5) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(6) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(7) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(8) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(9) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(10) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(11) Peripheral eosinocytes increased by 10%, and tests for HBsAg, antiHBs, antimitochondrial antibody and anti-smooth muscle antibody were all negative.
(12) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(13) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
(14) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(15) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(16) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
(17) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(18) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(19) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
(20) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.