(a.) Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
(2) The most characteristic microscopic features of the ovarian metastases were garland and cribriform growth patterns, intraluminal "dirty" necrosis, segmental destruction of glands, and absence of squamous metaplasia.
(3) the sphenoid, ethmoid, and occipital bones) and to abnormal spatial relationships between the cribriform plate and the crista galli, resulting in a positional disarrangement of the points of basal attachment of the dura matter.
(4) These included medullary, mucoid, tubular, cribriform and lobular invasive cancers, and non-invasive cancers.
(5) From 1967 to 1987, 16 patients underwent repair of chronic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea in the cribriform plate or fovea ethmoidalis at the University of Iowa with an osteomucoperiosteal flap.
(6) Carbon particles entering the subarachnoid space over the vertex of the cerebral hemispheres drained along selected paravascular and subfrontal pathways in the subarachnoid space to the cribriform plate and thence into nasal lymphatics and cervical lymph nodes.
(7) In particular, adequate pre-operative radiological assessment to determine involvement of the cribriform plate region by computerized axial tomography (CAT Scanning) is emphasized since this may indicate the need for a cranio-facial surgical approach rather than a lateral rhinotomy to achieve complete removal.
(8) The cribriform meshwork appeared dense, with deposition of fibrillae and collagen or basement membrane-like material; Schlemm's canal was absent in 3 specimens; in some the lumen was narrowed or locally obliterated; and Descemet membrane-like substance covered the trabecular meshwork.
(9) Key governing factors could be requisite mechanical rigidity of the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone and response thresholds of higher brain centers.
(10) Lacunae are small cavitary softenings observed on pathological examination and must be differentiated from cribriform cavities which are dilatations of perivascular space with or without impairment of the surrounding nervous tissue.
(11) In group A, there were 30 infiltrating ductal carcinomas (IDC); seven infiltrating lobular carcinomas (ILC); and two cases each of mixed ILC and IDC, mixed tubular carcinoma and ILC, and infiltrating cribriform carcinoma.
(12) The dura on the cranial base side was damaged and lost by infiltration of the tumor, normal olfactory bulb was not able to be identified, and the cribriform plate was broken.
(13) The craniofacial region shows an increased bony interorbital distance and a low level of the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone.
(14) Others manifested both cribriform and basaloid patterns in juxtaposition.
(15) Aneuploidy was not significantly increased in tumours showing histological signs of greater malignancy such as cribriform-comedo type or invasive growth.
(16) Based anteriorly, the flap can cover the entire central third of the face or be transposed intracranially to correct abnormalities of the cribriform plate and dura.
(17) For tubular and cribriform, lobular and non-invasive ductal cancers a malignant diagnosis was made in 30% to 40% of cases, although inclusion of suspicious results gave identification figures of 60% to 70%.
(18) These results confirm previous studies carried out in cases of collagen disease and, in addition, demonstrate branched tubular inclusions in lymphomas, they emphasize the importance of the lymphocyte as common denominator in man, in both auto-immune diseases and in lymphoma.-The presence of cells with an indented, or cribriform nucleus in 12 cases out of 100 patients (8 cases of Sézary syndrome out of 8; 4 cases of mycosis fungoides out of 12).
(19) The cells of the cribriform layer and the outer corneoscleral trabeculae become "activated" as soon as 3-4 days after explantation, developing a large amount of endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi material, and numerous mitochondria.
(20) In this review, the clinicopathological features of papillary carcinoma, classical and its variants (follicular, solid, cribriform, variant with exuberant nodular fasciitis-like stroma, encapsulated, diffuse sclerosing, diffuse follicular, tall cell, columnar cell, oxyphil cell, "dedifferentiated", occult, latent and microcarcinoma) are summarized.
Cribrous
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In such functional abnormality the swollen red cells are closely followed by the cribrous and pitted erythrocytes.
(2) It is proposed to differ 4 histological variants: cribrouse, trabecular, and chondroid.
(3) Histologically the carcinoma is composed of lobular arranged solid and cribrous cell formations only separated by a sparse fibrous stroma.
(4) As to its chemical composition, the secretion of the lumen of mucous tubulae resembles the ordinary mucus, but in cribrouse nests and across trabecular periphery and solid nests it was discovered the particular (special) secretion, rich in acid mucopolysaccharides.
(5) In this case the amoebae do not always enter the brain directly through the cribrous membranes but cause mild, primary infections of respiratory airways: exceptionally, mainly in immunodepressed subjects, they then reach the CNS causing a secondary ME.