(n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
(2) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(3) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
(4) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(5) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
(7) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
(8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(9) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
(10) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
(11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(12) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(13) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
(14) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
(15) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
(16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
(17) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(18) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
(19) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
(20) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.
Tylosis
Definition:
(n.) An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructural studies have been carried out on epithelium taken from the oral lesions of tylosis-related leukoplakia and preleukoplakia in a group of patients known to be at high risk for esophageal carcinoma.
(2) The major changes in the condyle were tylosis and morphological deformation of the fibrous layer of the parietal region.
(3) It would seem possible that this entity may be more common than the sparse literature would indicate, and that other cases may currently be masquerading as tylosis.
(4) A case of tylosis following corrosive stricture of the oesophagus in a male of 26 years is recorded.
(5) The results suggest that in the oesophageal epithelium of the patients with tylosis, inflammation is the predominant abnormality, together with individual cell keratinization, and that these lesions appear in a much younger age group than dysplasia.
(6) There have been no congenital anomalies associated with tylosis in the literature.
(7) Lack of uniformity of the fibrous layer and a shallowing of the mandibular fossa; proliferation of the fibrous connective tissue and reduction in size of the superior and inferior articular cavity; tylosis and irregularity in the articular disc; deformation and tylosis of the fibrous layer of the articular cartilage, tendency of the layer structure in the articular cartilage to disappear, and some effect on cartilaginous ossification in the condyle; flattening of the condyle and thinning of the layer structure in the condylar articular cartilage in the unaffected side of the mandibular joint.
(8) Several predisposing disorders for esophageal cancer are known and include Barrett's esophagus, achalasia, chronic strictures due to corrosive substances, tylosis, coeliac disease, and the Plummer-Vinson syndrome.
(9) It is suggested that there is probably a connection between the state of the oesophagus and the state of palms and soles and that an oesophageal abnormality may precede tylosis of the late onset type.
(10) The control of her diabetes has been poor, and diabetic neuropathy and lipoatrophy-induced painful skin lesions such as clavus and tylosis have been persistent.
(11) More than one form of 'simple' hyperkeratosis palmaris et plantaris (tylosis) probably exists.
(12) Although ethnicity is a strong indicator of risk of this disease, no specific genetic factor except the occurrence of this cancer among the members of families with tylosis has been identified.
(13) Tylosis is an autosomal dominant inherited defect of keratinization, associated in two Liverpool families with a high risk of developing oesophageal squamous carcinoma.
(14) High-risk groups for gastrointestinal carcinoma are heterogenic in regard to etiopathology; familial predisposition and genetic defects (familial adenomatosis coli, tylosis palmaris et plantaris, Gardner syndrome, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome), occupational factors (asbestor exposure), surgical intervention (resected stomach, ureterosigmoidostomy), long lasting passage obstruction (oesophagus) or chronic inflammatory alteration of the mucosa (pernicious anemia, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, glutenenteropathy).
(15) These conditions include achalasia, Barrett's esophagus, chronic atrophic gastritis with intestinal metaplasia, familial polyposis coli, gastric polyps, lye stricture, Plummer-Vinson syndrome, and tylosis.
(16) A typical patient is presented, with mental deficiency, short stature, pypoacusia, muscular atrophy, tylosis, pseudoacanthosis nigricans and endocrine disturbances.
(17) Further support comes from the association between dermatophytosis in man and inherited conditions such as atopy, chronic mucocutaneous candidosis and tylosis as well as experimental data showing that susceptibility to dermatophytosis in mice varies in different inbred strains.
(18) We report a family previously diagnosed as suffering from tylosis (Thost Unna syndrome), in which eleven members have been affected, and review the literature on this disease.
(19) Tylosis is determined by an autosomal dominant gene and presents with slight thickening of palms and soles first evident in early infancy and fully described by the sixth month.
(20) Histologic observation revealed tylosis of the fibrous layer of the condyle, shrinkage of the cartilaginous layer, enlargement of the marrow cavity, reduction in the number of osteoblasts in the condylar neck, and cellular disarrangement and other morphologic changes of both the fibrocartilaginous and cartilaginous layers.