(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.