(a.) Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.
(v. t.) To make a circle around; to encompass.
Example Sentences:
(1) CT-scan of thorax, however, showed a bunch of circinate opacities in the upper lobe of the right lung.
(2) Some patients present with pustules on an erythematous base; in others, annular or circinate papulonodular lesions predominate, which may become crusted.
(3) A 30-year-old man was found to have juxtapapillary exophytic capillary hemangioma complicated by circinate maculopathy and peripapillary exudative retinal detachment.
(4) basal keratinocyte processes protruding through basal lamina gaps were observed in psoriasis, circinate balanitis, pityriasis rubra pilaris, patch tests, gold dermatitis and conjunctivitis.
(5) As a clinical analogue to circinate balanitis, it should have the same diagnostic value.
(6) The HL-A phenotype of 17 patients with a typical clinical picture of circinate erosive balanitis was determined.
(7) We believe that pericentral pigmentary retinal degeneration and circinate choroidal degeneration are distinct entities.
(8) The blisters, present since birth, were numerous and were often circinate with central healing.
(9) It is characterized by pruritic circinate plaques that are studded with follicular papules and pustules.
(10) A case of eruptive porokeratosis of Mibelli with diverse morphologic features, including circinate macular, circinate plaque and verrucous varieties is presented.
(11) Three male and two female patients (aged 16 to 22 years) developed bilateral deep corneal stromal vascularization and circinate-pattern lipid exudation resembling interstitial keratitis after wearing adequately fitting hydrogel daily wear soft contact lenses comfortably for periods of ten to 24 months.
(12) Rare cases of migrant circinated eruptions occurring during the course of lupus erythematosus have been published so far.
(13) The diagnosis of circinate choroidal degeneration was made.
(14) The case is report of a boy aged 6 months whose dermatosis had set in suddenly 15 days before in the form of large round circinate patches on the face, thorax, abdomen, dorsum and extremities.
(15) Lesions missed by ophthalmoscopy but detected by the camera included soft exudates and circinate rings of hard exudates, sometimes encroaching on the macula.
(16) The phase of the oral contraceptive cycle appeared to have a marked effect on the initiation and duration of the circinate lesions, the tongue changes being severest on the 17th day of the cycle.
(17) Despite 2 years of griseofulvin, 23 months of ketoconazole and 8 months of itraconazole, the therapeutic failure was evident: circinate herpes, papulo-nodules, vegetating plaques, ulceration, superficial and profound adenopathies, cerebral involvement, and deterioration of the general state.
(18) We present the case of a patient with incomplete Reiter's Syndrome with arthritis, circinate balanitis and psoriasilike lesions of skin and nails who developed ischemic colitis.
(19) The Authors report a case of infantile recurrent circinate erythematous psoriasis, as described by Lapière, in a nine year old child.
(20) In addition circinate lesions developed on the vulva similar to those seen on the glans penis.
Motive
Definition:
(n.) That which moves; a mover.
(n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
(n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.
(n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.
(a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
(v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(2) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(3) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(4) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(5) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(6) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(7) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(8) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(9) The decision to an orthodontic treatment was led by esthetic and functional motives.
(10) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(11) Three motives are found for evaluating the quality of human life: allocation of scarce medical resources, facilitating clinical decision making, and assisting patients towards autonomous decision making.
(12) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
(13) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
(14) The ATPase inhibitor dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, which collapsed the chemical and electrical components of the proton motive force, caused rapid cell swelling in the presence of glucose (and high intracellular ATP levels).
(15) The precondition for cooperation is intensive medical advice covering the following three aspects: 1. education, 2. motivation to put the acquired knowledge into practice, 3. practicability of the advice given.
(16) This, along with evidence that kinesin is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum, has led to the suggestion that kinesin provides the motive force for the formation and maintenance of elongated tubulovesicular structures in cells.
(17) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
(18) Other factors that may have important effects on recovery include the localization, nature, extension and degree of brain damage, the patient's sex and age, the duration of coma, the patient's original cognitive capacity, his personality and motivation as well as the duration and intensity of rehabilitation and the time before starting rehabilitation.
(19) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
(20) The major findings were that the test group improved their running time and had better sport motivation than did the control group, and there were differences between boys and girls and an influence of sexual maturation on running time in girls.