(1) Presented is the case of a triplet pregnancy with conjoined twins diagnosed antenatally with sonography.
(2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(3) Led team of 70 to separate twins conjoined at the head in the first-ever surgery of its kind.
(4) Obstetrical planning is more likely to be successful with antepartum diagnosis, which can be done only if the possibility of conjoining is considered with each twin gestation.
(5) In contrast to many other classification systems the professor in Anatomy at the University of Amsterdam Louis Bolk divided conjoined twins in only three main groups: 1 greater than diplopagi simplex caudad; 2 greater than diplopagi simplex craniad; 3 greater than diplopagi simplex mesad.
(6) Because early diagnosis of conjoined twins is so difficult as to be almost impossible it is usually only made in labour.
(7) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(8) The total prevalence of conjoined twins (birth + prenatally diagnosed) was 1:68,000 in the study of 1970-1986.
(9) Pathologic examination of the conjoined female fetuses revealed a single, non-duplicated heart, two livers connected at the right lobe, completely separate bile ducts and digestive tract, and a single placenta and umbilical cord containing two arteries and six veins.
(10) The people of Syria have suffered ever more as a result.” The groups cited the case of the conjoined twins, Moaz and Nawras Hashash.
(11) Thoracoomphalopagus was the most common type of conjoining, occurring in five cases (36%).
(12) Despite the increased variability of spacing and consequent local crowding, including examples of conjoined placentas in the treated rats, there was no evidence that these local factors affected placental growth or weight of individual fetuses.
(13) At the follow-up examination a median of 9 (2-11) years after the operation, a reduction in the hallux valgus angle from 32 degrees to 26 degrees and in the intermetatarsal angle from 13 degrees to 10 degrees was found; but on analyzing the single parts of the operation, we found that the result was only significant in those patients that had had the original procedures done, i.e., tenotomy and reattachment of the conjoined tendon, lateral capsulotomy, and lateral sesamoidectomy.
(14) The extensor digitorum brevis muscle island and separate vascularized second metatarsal osteocutaneous flap represent one of many possible technical combinations of conjoined flaps based on the dorsalis pedis source vessel.
(15) Three cases of conjoined twins are presented: two thorocopagus and one craniopagus.
(16) Female conjoined twins were delivered after 42 weeks' gestation, but they died within a few minutes of birth.
(17) The current excellent outcomes, even in difficult cases of conjoined twinning, suggest that separation should always be considered, with rare exception.
(18) It is suggested that if conjoined twins are diagnosed before labour, of if there is dystocia, Caesarean section is the treatment of choice.
(19) The indispensable conjoined action of the interosseus muscles through the collateral tendon is demonstrated by Duchene in 1867.
(20) The case group was compared to two control groups and it appeared that the periconceptional use of oral contraception and ovulation induction were mentioned more frequently in pregnancies resulting in conjoined twins.
Conjugate
Definition:
(a.) United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
(a.) In single pairs; coupled.
(a.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
(a.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.
(a.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
(n.) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
(n.) A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical.
(v. t.) To unite in marriage; to join.
(v. t.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.
(v. i.) To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(2) Analysis of conjugated discharges ACHs showed that they appeared predominantly periodically (87% of cases).
(3) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
(4) This doxorubicin derivative did not bind to Sepharose which was conjugated with cardiac actin.
(5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(6) Foreign antigens conjugated to alpha-2-Macroglobulin (alpha-2-M) were effectively taken up by murine macrophages via alpha-2-M receptors.
(7) Conjugational recombination in Escherichia coli was investigated by monitoring synthesis of the lacZ+ product, beta-galactosidase, in crosses between lacZ mutants.
(8) Cloned genes encoding pertussis toxin from B. pertussis were transferred into Bordetella bronchiseptica and Bordetella parapertussis by conjugation.
(9) Rates of PC in vitro metabolism by liver and kidney cytosolic cysteine conjugate beta-lyases (beta-lyases) were similar, but metabolism by renal mitochondrial beta-lyase occurred at a 3-fold higher rate than the rate obtained with hepatic mitochondrial beta-lyase.
(10) Additionally, cats excreted the taurine conjugate of hydratropic acid.
(11) This paper examines the chiral nature of the covalent conjugates formed upon reaction of acetylcholinesterase (AchE) with enantiomeric cycloheptyl, isopropyl, and 3,3-dimethylbutyl methylphosphonyl thiocholines.
(12) We evaluated the safety and efficacy of a conjugate vaccine that links the H. influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide to the outer-membrane protein complex (OMPC) of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B.
(13) This fact suggested that TCTFP may be metabolized intensively by glutathione (GSH) conjugation and therefore, like hexachlorobutadiene, would be expected to be nephrotoxic.
(14) Bile flow was stimulated significantly by VPA and MCCA, but not by CCA; changes in bile flow correlated with the biliary excretion rate of base-labile conjugates rather than with excretion of the parent compounds themselves.
(15) In addition, a beta-linked sialic acid:nucleoside conjugate (Kl-8111) and an equimolar mixture of Kl-8110 and Kl-8111 (Kl-414) also inhibited the metastatic ability of NL cells to the same extent as Kl-8110 did.
(16) The F'lac+ episome of Escherichia coli origin was transferred by conjugation with frequencies of 10(-7) to 10(-5) from Erwinia amylovora to 14 out of 15 Salmonella typhimurium trp female parents.
(17) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(18) A new type of artificial blood, pyridoxylated hemoglobin-polyoxyethylene conjugate (PHP) solution, (developed by PHP research group of the department of health and welfare of Japan, and produced by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Tokyo) as an oxygen-carrying component, has been recently devised using hemoglobin obtained from hemolyzed human erythrocytes.
(19) Injection of albumin-colloidal gold conjugates resulted in an insignificant uptake.
(20) The conjugate was formed between the ortho carbon of the amino group of p-aminophenol and the SH group of GSH.