(a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.
(n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
(n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coralline hydroxyapatite (CHAP) is a porous, biocompatible bone-graft substitute manufactured by the Replamineform process.
(2) In contrast to autografts, incorporation of coralline implants was characterized by predictable osseous growth and apposition with preservation of intrinsic architecture.
(3) Radiographic film densitometry was found not to be reliably predictive of coralline implant behavior in the individual case.
(4) Coralline hydroxy-apatite blocks strengthened with a membrane made of a combination of polylactide and polyglycolic acid were inserted into bony defects created in 12 rabbit skulls.
(5) The permanent fixed partial denture is functional, and radiographic evaluation indicates the continued presence of the porous coralline hydroxyapatite implant.
(6) The systems consisted of either a combination of the bone inductive protein (osteogenin) plus type I collagen (Os + C) or the combination of osteogenin with coralline hydroxyapatite (Os + HA).
(7) It is concluded that coralline hydroxyapatite bone graft substitutes appear to offer no particular advantage over autogenous grafts in the management of diaphyseal defects, although further investigation is warranted since other factors may be responsible for the unfavorable findings in this study.
(8) Biomechanical testing was carried out on all grafts following harvest at 6 months, as well as on nonimplanted coralline hydroxyapatite and autogenous iliac cancellous bone.
(9) While normally the bone formed in coralline hydroxylapatite is secondary (lamellar), in this specimen primary (woven) bone was found.
(10) We illustrate the idea of the self-repairing model in non-articulated coralline algae.
(11) Additional treatments consisted of coralline hydroxyapatite (HA) or untreated control defects.
(12) The possibility of using coralline hydroxy-apatite in combination with polylactide and polyglcycolic acid instead of a bone graft in the skull region is examinated.
(13) Porous (coralline) hydroxylapatite appears to be an excellent otologic graft material.
(14) Forty-six nonconsecutive patients undergoing orthognathic surgery in whom blocks of coralline, porous hydroxyapatite (Interpore-200) were used in lieu of interpositional bone grafts are the subjects of this report.
(15) These results strongly support the use of coralline PBHA along with bone plate fixation to provide predictable stability in orthognathic surgery.
(16) Evolving radiographic findings reflect the biocompatible nature of these implants, which provides the potential for ingrowth of native bone with preservation of the coralline scaffold, resulting in enhanced biomechanical properties.
(17) Porous coralline and synthetic hydroxyapatite blocks reinforced with either self-reinforced polyactide or polyglycolide were implanted into 15 lumbar intervertebral disc spaces in five minipigs in order to determine whether they could provide an osteoconductive bridge for interbody fusion.
(18) This study was designed to quantitate the rate of vascularization of coralline hydroxyapatite when used in an onlay application to membranous bone in an animal model.
(19) Coralline hydroxylapatite is a highly biocompatible material which showed abundant ingrowth when in contact with host bone.
(20) In contrast, the coralline implant was consistently invaded by fibrovascular tissue, showed bone formation on its internal surfaces and had some periodontal ligament formation around it.
Coralloid
Definition:
(a.) Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Myxococcus coralloides D produced cell-bound deoxyribonucleases (DNases) during the exponential phase of growth in liquid medium.
(2) A strain of Myxococcus coralloides producing an antibiotic capable of inhibiting growth of Gram-positive bacteria was isolated.
(3) Myxococcus coralloides D was lysogenic for a defective prophage.
(4) DNA was prepared from cyanobacteria freshly isolated from coralloid roots of natural populations of five cycad species: Ceratozamia mexicana mexicana (Mexico), C. mexicana robusta (Mexico), Dioon spinulosum (Mexico), Zamia furfuraceae (Mexico) and Z. skinneri (Costa Rica).
(5) Mature arbuscules exhibited a coralloid morphology which resulted in a considerable increase in the surface area of the endophyte exposed within the host cells.
(6) Myxococcus fulvus, Myxococcus coralloides and Archangium gephyra occurred in all biotops studied.
(7) Two methods for the isolation of an antibiotic produced by Myxococcus coralloides have been developed: the chloroform extraction method and the charcoal adsorption method.
(8) Starch isolated from the fungi Hericium ramosum and Hericium coralloides differs from that of higher plants in that it consists only of short-chain amylose molecules (32 to 45 glucose units long).
(9) On the other hand, a similar comparison of cyanobacteria freshly collected from a single Encephalartos altensteinii coralloid root and from three independently subcultured isolates from the same coralloid root revealed that these were likely to be one and the same organism.
(10) The effect of inorganic phosphate concentrations on antibiotic and extracellular protein production by Myxococcus coralloides D have been examined.
(11) Either coralloid or bulbous rhizoids form in plant material, but only the latter in axenic culture.
(12) Acid and alkaline phosphatase of Myxococcus coralloides were examined during vegetative growth in a liquid medium.
(13) In forest soils Myxococcus coralloides and Myxococcus fulvus occur frequently, in grassland soils Myxococcus coralloides and Archangium gephyra are predominating.
(14) 5S rRNA sequences were determined for the myxobacteria Cystobacter fuscus, Myxococcus coralloides, Sorangium cellulosum, and Nannocystis exedens and for the radioresistant bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans and Deinococcus radiophilus.
(15) We found msDNA in other myxobacteria, including Myxococcus coralloides, Cystobacter violaceus, Cystobacter ferrugineus (Cbfe17), Nannocystis exedens, and nine independently isolated strains of M. xanthus.
(16) A strain of Myxococcus coralloides was isolated which produced an antibiotic active against Gram-positive bacteria and also against Neisseria sp at high levels of antibiotic.
(17) Thus, a wide range of Nostoc strains appear to associate with the coralloid roots of cycads.