(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).
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Definition:
(v. t.) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(2) A technique to re-embed celloidin sections of human temporal bones for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is presented.
(3) Although PEEP, SN, and EMB all increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure, PEEP, had negligible effect on Zc and Ca, whereas SN increased Zc but decreased Ca (+24% and -49%, respectively), and EMB decreased both Zc and Ca (-33% and -39%, respectively).
(4) These results indicate that neither CIM, as currently conducted, nor immunophenotyping alone is sensitive or specific enough to substitute for EMB in screening for tissue rejection.
(5) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
(6) EMB caused no increase in deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis, nor in septum formation of dividing cells.
(7) We measured this variable in 87 subjects classified into five study groups: 19 controls (C), 18 alcoholics (E), 15 patients diagnosed as liver cirrhosis (CH), 11 chronic liver disease (HC) and 24 pregnant women (EMB).
(8) Indications for obtaining EMBs included acute rejection in the cardiac allograft, anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity, myocarditis, cardiomyopathies, specific heart diseases, idiopathic chest pain and arrhythmias, as well as the differential diagnosis of restrictive versus constrictive heart diseases.
(9) In these patients another EMB was performed after 3 or 5 days.
(10) The government's crusade to embed "British values" in our education system is meaningless at best, dangerous at worst, and a perversion of British history in any case.
(11) Hemodynamics were normal prephotopheresis and remained unchanged at the time when the postphotopheresis EMB showed no evidence rejection No adverse effects have been observed with photopheresis.
(12) That’s something we’re going to have to get right as we embed these systems into our lives,” Soltani, the former tech regulator, said.
(13) A review was conducted on 144 right ventricular histological sections (RVs) from hearts surgically resected for heart transplantation, 115 endomyocardial biopsies (EMB) from 100 patients investigated for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and 309 biopsies from 26 heart-transplant patients.
(14) France wanted to firmly embed Germany in Europe and improve Europe’s chances to harness globalisation.
(15) In another 15 patients (Group B) it was possible to administer 2 cycles of EMB, and 9 of them showed local disease progression and died.
(16) Furthermore, temperature shift-down experiments suggest that the emb-29 mutation defines a cell division cycle function that affects an essential activity required for progression into M phase.
(17) EMB was performed in 314 patients, a total of 1362 biopsies, and for evaluation 5564 specimens of cardiac tissue were taken.
(18) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
(19) MARs without maintenance steroids and low serum creatinine levels had the highest risk (37.2% observed incidence) to develop moderate or severe rejection on subsequent EMB.
(20) Policy making My last recommendation is that government must eat its own lunch: it must formally embed structured data in how it develops, monitors and adapts public policy.