(n.) One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden.
(n.) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(3) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(4) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(5) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
(6) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
(7) The addition of a cerebral blood volume (CBV) compartment in the [18F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) model produces estimates of local CBV simultaneously with glucose metabolic rates when kinetic FDG studies are performed.
(8) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
(9) Pharmacokinetics of the parent drug followed a two-compartment model.
(10) All treatments cause equal translocation of receptor of the nuclear compartment.
(11) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
(12) A two-compartment model was used to describe the elimination of DCM from blood following single iv doses.
(13) Neonatal treatment with a low dose of the estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) had no significant effect on adult estrogen binding within the assayed vaginal compartments; however, this treatment caused a 2-fold increase in the level of cytosolic progestin binding in the vaginal FMW over that in vehicle-treated mice.
(14) Thus the two proteins provide models with which to study targeting to each of these intracellular compartments.
(15) It was the purpose of this study to examine the relationship between body fluid compartments and multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis (MF-BIA).
(16) The authors have reviewed 14 patients with 14 cases of compartment syndrome treated at their institution from 1980 to 1988.
(17) Furthermore it is this small compartment that is preferentially radioactively labelled during short-term incubations with radioactively labelled precursors.
(18) The remaining fat pad was used for calculations of cell numbers in the fat cell and connective tissue cell compartment.
(19) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(20) TTM predominantly enhances the removal of Cu from the short-term storage compartment, but effects on the long-term storage compartment may still be of significance.
Unilocular
Definition:
(a.) Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maxillary myxoma is identified by the appearance of a non-inflammatory and often painless swelling which, in radiological terms, appears to have a zone of multilocular and sometimes unilocular osteolysis.
(2) Histological findings were otherwise uniform and typical: intra-epidermal, unilocular, well-delineated pustules.
(3) In the adipose tissues of the mammary stroma in intact mice, fat cells were of multilocular type in the peripheral regions around the main vessel, and of unilocular type in the other part.
(4) The two imaging techniques made it possible to distinguish the tumors into "unilocular" and "multilocular" masses: the former correspond to RCC and PAC, the latter to MCN and RCC.
(5) After conversion to unilocular adipocytes the amount of mitochondria was halved, their cristae even more reduced, and their appearance was of a WAT-type (UCP-lacking mitochondria, which are coupled under physiological conditions; "C-mitochondria").
(6) Its most important role is in the treatment of small, unilocular, well-placed abscesses.
(7) This distribution explains the curved shape of unilocular pits and the kidney-shaped extensions of multilocular pits.
(8) Percutaneous aspiration of unilocular pancreatic pseudocysts in children provides an attractive alternative to operative treatment in selected cases.
(9) They should be differentiated from a microcystic cystadenoma with unilocular cyst features (2 cases in our series) and especially from pancreatic pseudocyst, particularly in case of a history of trauma and associated chronic pancreatitis (2 cases).
(11) We report five cases of macrocystic serous cystadenoma of the pancreas, two of which were of the unilocular type.
(12) Macroscopically, the resected tumors of both cases showed a unilocular cystic tumor adjacent to a solid tumor.
(13) Unilocular deposition of ethanol into the adenoma proved ineffective, but multilocular injection normalized serum calcium and parathormone concentrations.
(14) Radiographic appearance varied from unilocular to worm-eaten type radiolucencies which were often surrounded by indistinct margins on close examination.
(15) The cyst was unilocular and contained about 100 ml pale yellow mucinous fluid.
(16) Conservative treatment of unilocular ameloblastomas can be expected to result in a recurrence rate of 20%.
(17) At birth all adipocytes were multilocular (contained multiple small lipid droplets), but by day 3 postpartum, many were already differentiated to the unilocular state (one major, central lipid droplet).
(18) Radiographically, most cases revealed a unilocular cystic lesion.
(19) A unique variant of the sebaceous lymphadenoma, so-called unilocular cystic sebaceous lymphadenoma or lymphoepithelial cyst with sebaceous differentiation, occurred in the parotid gland of a 38-year-old man.
(20) Ciliated hepatic foregut cysts (CHFCs) are solitary unilocular cysts in the liver that are histologically similar to bronchogenic cysts.