(n.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) In telecost fishes, the corpuscles of Stannius contain Bowie-stainable granules and a renin-like pressor substance.
(2) Two types of mechanoreceptor have been found in the articular capsule of the knee joint of the domestic cat--Ruffini corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles.
(3) Twenty-six rapidly adapting units (RA), eighteen slowly adapting units (SA) and ten Pacinian corpuscle units (PC) were differentiated from each other mainly on the presence of the off response in RA and PC units to a ramp stimulation, the persistence of discharges of the SA units during steady pressure on the receptive field and the classical tuning curve seen in the PC units.
(4) In the mouse, Meissner corpuscles, glomerular corpuscles, and Merkel cell nerve endings were seen in every palatine ruga, though the first antemolar ruga also contained simple and atypical lamellated corpuscles.
(5) Tumours which consist mainly of multiple touch corpuscles have not been described in the literature.
(6) Tubocurarine or hexonium application of decapsulated pacinian corpuscles led to depression of the sensitivity of the receptor to the mechanical stimulation that can also be explained by the participation of acetylcholine in the process of adequate receptor stimulation.
(7) Radioactivity from NaH14CO3 also was accumulated in soft tissues and corpuscles of T. taeniaeformis.
(8) The increasing excitability of the Pacinian corpuscle in potassium-rich solution was shown by electrophysiologic methods.
(9) Assuming that the 14C taken up by the corpuscles was in the form of 14CO3(2-), the ratio of Ca2+ to CO3(2-) accumulation in the corpuscles approximates the ratio of these constituents in dolomite: CaMg(CO3)2.
(10) The capsule is quite simple mostly formed by a single lamella of fibrocyte which often fails to form a continuous coat of the corpuscle.
(11) Colchicine application to the cat caudal mesenteric nerve containing sensory fibers for single mechanoreceptors (Pacinian corpuscles) causes degeneration of the axis cast of the nerve endings.
(12) We conclude that the inner core of Pacinian corpuscles is a unique micro-environment promoting sprouting of sensory axon in the normal human adult as well as juvenile Pacinian corpuscles.
(13) It was shown that cyclosporine induced cell depletion in the thymus cortical and medullar zones, inhibition of lymphocyte mitotic activity, alteration of the Hassall corpuscles and impairment of their formation.
(14) Ruffini-type corpuscles, 50-150 microns long and 25-50 microns wide, had the branched axon terminals with varicosities under the incomplete capsule.
(15) Cardiac blood films of all the fetuses stained by the Pappenheim's panoptic method showed Anaplasma marginale in two to 20% of red corpuscles.
(16) Antigenic stimulation of macrophages made it possible to investigate the dynamics of absorption and digestion of sheep corpuscles, as well as the morphology of this process.
(17) After the application of the fourth chemotherapy cycle, the patient presented microangiopathic hemolytic anemia associated to Mitomycin-C, which was treated with the application of recurrent plasmapheresis and restricted transfusions of red corpuscles concentrate.
(18) The major derivative possesses a paracrystalline corpuscle and the minor has an electron-dense area in the juxta-axonemal region.
(19) The shape of this age-related decline in the ratio corresponded well with the decrease in the number of Meissner corpuscles found in histological studies.
(20) One hundred renal corpuscles were counted per section and the parietal layer of Bowman's capsule was classified as normal (squamous) or metaplastic (cuboidal).
Corpuscular
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prophylactic effect of immunization with P. aeruginosa polyvalent corpuscular vaccine has been shown on the model of P. aeruginosa generalized chronic infection in mice with leukopenia induced by the intraperitoneal injection of cyclophosphamids.
(2) We could not find any correlation between TBG and serum albumin, gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase and mean corpuscular volume.
(3) Alteration in the temperature of the Isoton diluent in a Coulter model S counter over a range of possible laboratory working temperatures produced a change in the mean corpuscular volume using EDTA and dipotassium acid citrate dextrose blood and a commercial control, 4C.
(4) It has been shown that C-ELISA (and EIA with corpuscular antigen), being highly sensitive techniques, are very promising for the identification of species-specific Leishmania antibodies.
(5) On stopping iron therapy both mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH) values declined significantly as did serum ferritin and iron levels.
(6) After excluding children with overtly abnormal red cell indices, Asian and European children had identical haemoglobin values, but Asian children had much lower mean cell volume and mean corpuscular haemoglobin values and higher red blood cell values.
(7) Additionally, a significant increase in red cell mean corpuscular volume was obtained during rHuEpo therapy.
(8) The maximum synthesis of DNA in the cells was induced by corpuscular antigen Smith and the minimum synthesis, by Wood-46.
(9) Erythrocyte mean corpuscular volume (MCV) evolution during cytotoxic therapy of Hodgkin's disease, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer was studied.
(10) The paper presents the results of the first year of an Italian nation wide quality control programme for hemocytometric tests, involving public laboratories and concerning the following parameters: hemoglobin, erythrocytes, leukocytes (nucleated cells), mean corpuscular volume, platelets and hematocrit.
(11) They tested the validity of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), gammaglutamyl transferase (GMT), the blood sugar level, serum cholesterol, bilirubinaemia, ferrinaemia and mean corpuscular volume (MCV).
(12) In relation to anamnesis, drinking habits and medical findings gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (gamma-GT) and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) of erythrocytes had been used as markers.
(13) Abnormal hemoglobin, defect of the corpuscular-hereditary type.
(14) Currently available markers such as the serum gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), serum transaminases, and the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) lack sufficient sensitivity and specificity to be used for screening of alcoholism in ambulatory patients.
(15) The protective activity of chemical typhus vaccine and R. prowazekii corpuscular radioantigen (CRA) was studied.
(16) This was shown to be due to a decreased mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC), which counteracted the effect of the increased 2,3-DPG.
(17) The results showed statistically significant increase in the number of red cells per cmm, in folic acid content both in the serum and in the erythrocytes; at the same time a decrease of mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC) and mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH) was observed.
(18) A mean corpuscular volume of 100 fl or more, which reflects a defect in red cell DNA synthesis, was present in 35%.
(19) The content of amino acids in the protein of the corpuscular blood fractions remained uninfluenced by the decreasing amino acid and energy supply.
(20) Two thousand five hundred and four patients aged 60-98 (mean, 82) years admitted to a geriatric clinic for rehabilitation were screened by faecal occult blood test, for B-haemoglobin, and, in a case of anaemia, analyses of serum levels of mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, iron, and total iron-binding capacity.