(n.) A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preoperative presenting features were: dyspnoea on exertion, clubbing, cyanosis and polycythaemia.
(2) When he arrived at our hospital, congestive heart failure, cyanosis of his lower extremities and weak femoral pulses were observed.
(3) He was admitted with dyspnea on exertion, syncope, and severe cyanosis.
(4) Serum erythropoietin levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in 146 children and young adults with congenital heart disease to assess the relationship between erythropoietin and clinical factors (heart failure, anemia, cyanosis) and hemodynamic variables affecting oxygen delivery and utilization.
(5) Cyanosis of the hands and feet in Buerger's disease is known as 'Buerger's colour'.
(6) All children were in a severe condition, with deep central cyanosis, congestive heart failure and severe metabolic acidosis.
(7) Five patients had inadequate relief of cyanosis; three of these had venous collaterals and two had severe ventricular dysfunction; the latter two patients subsequently had strokes.
(8) The administration of these drugs was followed within 2-3 minutes by oedema of the eyelids and epiglottis, reduced peripheral circulation and central cyanosis.
(9) Clinical signs were tachycardia, dyspnea, cyanosis, and marked abdominal distention.
(10) The patient had experienced increasing fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, and slight cyanosis.
(11) Cyanosis was due to a large, anomalous inferior vena caval valve, the eustachian valve.
(12) The mean birth weight and height were significantly greater in the control group, and no control infant had an episode of cyanosis or pallor or repeated episodes of profuse sweating observed during their sleep.
(13) Our patient with this complication presented sudden onset of severe hypotension and cyanosis after several ventricular premature beats.
(14) Life-threatening asthma may be judged to be present in patients who, in the presence of a low FEV(1) are too dyspneic to speak, have altered consciousness or unequivocal cyanosis.
(15) This rare esophageal rupture should be suspected in any chest injury patients, especially those characterized by extreme cyanosis, dyspnea, shock, and prostration incompatible with thoracic cage injury.
(16) Acute toxicities, taking the form of fever, chills, tachycardia, hypertension, peripheral cyanosis, nausea and vomiting, headache, chest tightness, low back pain, diarrhea and shortness of breath were seen, but were not dose-limiting or dose-related.
(17) To study the effects of chronic cyanosis on left ventricular function, nine dogs underwent inferior vena cava-to-left atrial anastomosis, a model that minimizes abnormal left ventricular hemodynamic loads.
(18) Cyanosis was due to right to left shunt through direct right pulmonary artery--left atrium fistula.
(19) In the second case, an intrapulmonary shunt due to multiple arteriovenous fistulae demonstrated by contrast echocardiography was responsible for persistent mild cyanosis for a few months after surgery.
(20) Multichannel recordings should therefore be considered in all infants with unexplained episodes of apnea, bradycardia or cyanosis, in order to clarify the type of apnea and to rule out underlying conditions such as gastroesophageal reflux or seizures.
Skin
Definition:
(n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
(n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
(n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
(n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
(n.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
(n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
(v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
(v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
(v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
(v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
(v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(3) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(4) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(5) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(6) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(7) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
(8) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(9) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(10) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(11) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(12) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
(13) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(14) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(15) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(16) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(17) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
(18) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(19) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(20) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.