(n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
(n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
(v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Were it the latter, you'd think he'd change the angle, either by moving across the crease or going around the wicket, because it's clear his man won't be tempted.
(2) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(3) It seems to adequately provide the additional needed lift when nipple descent has been no more than 1.5 to 2 cm below the inframammary crease.
(4) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
(5) Descent of a prosthesis below the desired inframammary crease is an infrequent but disturbing complication of augmentation mammaplasty, which may occur for a number of reasons.
(6) Two flaps are described which have been designed to resurface the skin around the basal flexion crease of the fingers.
(7) A single anatomic unit is rebuilt, transferring a strong new muscle strap with ideal supporting vectors and leaving scars in natural creases.
(8) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(9) This method is useful in restoring eyelid contour defects, separating the eyelid lamella to lower the upper eyelid crease, and augmenting eyelids in anophthalmos.
(10) It hasn’t helped that one mischievous customer appears to have added a crease to the carton on the right to make it look even more like a penis.
(11) There are four basic surgical techniques applicable to the upper face: (1) direct browlift, (2) midforehead crease incision, (3) prehairline incision, and (4) posthairline incision.
(12) A prospective study of 125 consecutive patients undergoing coronary arteriography was carried out to evaluate the ear lobe crease with the presence and extent of coronary artery disease.
(13) The authors present a series of 74 patients who underwent injections of a biphasic copolymer (Bioplastique) to improve the facial contours or to fill deep creases and folds.
(14) The combined presence of ear-lobe crease and ear-canal hair was more definite and more sensitive index of underlying CAD.
(15) Temporal and frontal ptosis, as well as glabellar and frontal creases are treated through this approach.
(16) A posterior incision in the knee crease, rather than the conventional medial approach, gives expedient exposure for precise repair.
(17) Ambigouous genitalia, microcephaly, microphthalmia, hyoptelorism, single choanal opening, low-set ears, simian creases, Tetralogy of Fallot, bilateral hydronephrosis, and absence of the left ureter characterized an infant the died 1 hour postpartum with the karyotype 48,XXY,+13.
(18) The syndrome is characterized by short stature; a broad, prominent forehead, hypertelorism, congenital ptosis, a broad, short nose with anteverted nostrils, a long, broad upper lip, low-set, abnormally shaped and posteriorly rotated ears; simian palmar creases; brachyclinodactyly; short fingers; ligamentous laxity allowing for hyperextensibility of the fingers, genu recurvatum, flat feet; and an anomalous penoscrotal configuration resulting in "saddle" deformity with scrotal folds incircling the base of the penis.
(19) An ear lobe crease score was correlated with a coronary artery disease score, taking into account the variables of age, sex, and body mass index.
(20) With a mean frequency 1.75% of elderly primiparae, the operation took place in 60% of the cases in the year 1984 and in creased up to 80.95% during 1987.
Plica
Definition:
(v.) A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait.
(v.) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
(v.) The bend of the wing of a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has become indispensable to proper assessment of injuries of the menisci, cartilage, synovial folds, and plicae and for suspicion of isolated cruciate knee ligament rupture.
(2) To date no clear method of demonstrating the pathomechanics of the suprapatellar plica by arthroscopic means has been described.
(3) The taste buds are situated consistently at the tip of the Plica sublingualis and near the orifices of the submandibular and sublingual salivary glands.
(4) Likewise, anteromedial joint line tenderness is more likely to be related to a meniscal tear than to a pathological plica.
(5) At the areas bordering mucosal pits and beneath the tunicae plicae mucosae, the capillaries form glomera.
(6) A consecutive series of 28 patients (31 knees) with a symptomatic mediopatellar plica without concomitant lesions excised arthroscopically under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department is described.
(7) In 42 patients with chronic knee problems, arthrograms of the knee were obtained with evidence of the plica syndrome.
(8) In conclusion, the transverse palatine plicae in M. fuscata were formed from a thickening or eminence of the lamina propria, as opposed to the submucous tissue in the cat.
(9) The observation of the normal mucosa has revealed that in comparison with the cells overlying the flat surface of the stomach, those covering the plicae have a different surface structure with numerous microvilli and a peculiar organization of intercellular junctions.
(10) In sections without pathologic evidence of atherosclerosis, the cast surface characteristically demonstrated small longitudinal plicae, similar in size to those previously reported in studies with the scanning electron microscope.
(11) Medial patellar pain is more likely to be related to patellofemoral maltracking than to plica syndrome.
(12) There were also areas in the mucosal plicae where a large number of stromal cells expressing the PR were seen in the mucosal layer.
(13) The transverse palatine plicae or ridges numbered 7 or 8 symmetrically.
(14) It is concluded that excising a fibrosed mediopatellar plica large enough to cover the medial femoral condyle during flexion is followed by good results; local anaesthesia is sufficient and economical, and arthroscopic excision under local anaesthesia carries a low morbidity.
(15) Strict adherence to the indications outlined in this article should permit good results from pathologic plica resection.
(16) A 76-year-old male had orbital extension and regional lymph node involvement from an oncocytic carcinoma thought to have arisen in the plica semilunaris of the left eye.
(17) The crossed mediopatellar plica was found in 6 patients and in 1 patient it was the cause of plica syndrome.
(18) I describe a patient with rupture of the mediopatellar plica.
(19) On gastroscopic examination the plicae gastricae were numerous and strongly marked; moreover, they were granulated with numerous small haemorrhages.
(20) (4) The tunica media is composed of an outer circular layer of typical smooth muscle cells, and an inner longitudinally running plica of ramified smooth muscle cells.