(a.) Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.
(n.) A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.
Example Sentences:
(1) In other regions of the face and neck other manifestations of chronic actinic skin lesions with characteristics of "citrine skin", cutis rhomboidalis nuchae and elastoma Dubreuilh are present as wall.
(2) Scintigraphy of the bone marrow with 111In-citrin was performed in 32 patients with polycythemia vera and 8 controls.
(3) The surgical specimen was constituted by a cystic mass containing citrine liquid.
(4) A study of 111In-citrin distribution and kinetics in the body of patients without hemopoietic disorder showed the accumulation (up to 20%) of the injected drug in the bone marrow.
(5) A degree of a decrease in the blood radioactivity within 24 h after i. v. administration of 111In-citrin reflected the summary erythropoietic activity of the bone marrow and could serve as a differential diagnostic criterion in determining a stage of polycythemia vera.
(6) Bone marrow scintigraphy with 111In-citrin was used to investigate 55 patients with varying hemoblastoses.
(7) 111In-citrin has been shown to accumulate in the red marrow, parenchymal organs and to be excreted from animal organism by urinary system predominately.
(8) 111In-citrin is supposed to be an adequate radiopharmaceutical preparation for visualization of the red marrow.
(9) The data of bone marrow scintigraphy with 111In-citrin can be useful in determination of the disease stage, optimum scheme of its treatment, the therapeutic effectiveness control and prognosis of hemoblastoses.
(10) Diagnostic potentialities of the use of a new radiopharmaceutical 111In-citrin were studied to assess the hemopoietic status on the basis of examination of 47 cancer patients after chemotherapy.
(11) 111In-citrin has advantages in defining the nuclide concentrations in marrow blood and serum as compared with colloid preparations and 111In-chloride.
(12) Organ fixation, elimination and other pharmacokinetic indices confirming 111In-citrin functional applicability for investigation of the red bone marrow were determined shortly after intravenous injection and in 24 h using a total body meter.
(13) Soviet radiopharmaceutical 111In-citrin has been studied to define its possible application for marrow visualization.
(14) The results obtained showed that 111In-citrin accumulation in the bone marrow of the long tubular bones indicating its functional rearrangement and the normal level of the indicator accumulation in the main zones of bone marrow hemopoiesis in cancer patients could serve as a favorable prognostic sign for the assessment of hemopoiesis in subsequent courses of cytostatic therapy.
Quartz
Definition:
(n.) A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
Example Sentences:
(1) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
(2) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(3) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
(4) Exposures to quartz amounting to less than about 10 per cent of mixed coal mine dust do not generally affect the probability of developing simple pneumoconiosis.
(5) The effect of quartz, bentonite and coal dusts as well as the effect of the artificial mixture of these dusts on TTC reduction and extra-and intra-cellular lactate dehydrogenase activity in peritoneal rat macrophages was determined in vitro.
(6) Silica quartz dust, a direct toxin of macrophages, suppressed demyelination and inflammation if begun at time of virus infection.
(7) As expected the proportion of quartz was greater in lymph nodes and lungs from men who had worked "low" rank (high ash) coal.
(8) Guinea pig splenic lymphocytes and peritoneal macrophage cultures were incubated with quartz (DQ12), Corundum and aspirin as prostaglandin inhibitor.
(9) A surgical system using 308 nm excimer laser radiation transmitted by quartz fibers is described.
(10) Cancer incidence and cause-specific mortality were studied in a male cohort of 94 talc miners and 295 talc millers, exposed to non-asbestiform talc with low quartz content.
(11) The pulsed dye laser can effectively fragment biliary calculi when transmitted through a small-diameter quartz fiber and may be useful as a tool for fragmenting retained common duct stones.
(12) In mice bearing the highly metastatic tumors B16 melanoma and Lewis lung carcinoma (LLC) treated with Hpd and laser light delivered through a quartz fiber optic significantly prolonged the median survival time.
(13) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(14) Using a fluorescence microscope with quartz optics and an image analyser, it was possible to measure the intracellular concentration of free calcium ions [Ca2+]i in single microvessels for the first time.
(15) The median amount of quartz for all cases, was 0.044 grams.
(16) The microscope is focused on an in-line quartz flow cell incorporated down stream of a microbore HPLC column or directly on an optically clear portion of fused-silica capillary columns for analyte detection.
(17) X-ray diffraction data from samples of 20, 60 and 100 mug quartz on poly-vinyl chloride membrane filters have been collected using a rotating anode x-ray source.
(18) Mentally,” an Uber driver who used to do contract limo work told a reporter from business magazine Quartz last week, “these rating systems affect us a lot… If I am driving somebody who doesn’t live in New York, and they complain that I took the wrong route, how would they know the route that I should have taken?” He went on to note that in 20 years of working with corporate employees, he hadn’t a single customer complaining.
(19) There are closed relations between progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) and exposure to quartz dust in the GDR.
(20) A 630 nanometer wavelength of light was delivered through a quartz-optical fiber with either a regular flat end for focal illumination or a bulb-type end which produced an isotropic light pattern.