(n.) A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a dartos musculocutaneous island flap used to reconstruct the distal burned penile urethra in a 13-year-old boy who sustained burns to 85% of his total body surface area.
(2) The conservative treatment was found to be advisable only for the patients with isolated scrotal injuries and small hematomas in tunica dartos.
(3) Among these, the magnetic resonance examination (data referred to a 0.5 T apparatus) allowed a precise morphological differentiation of the penile covering tissues, such as outer skin, dartos tunica and hypodermal connective; the vascular characterization of cavernous tissue, belonging to corpora cavernosa and spongiosum urethrae, of deep arteries and superficial dorsal vein(s); the resolution of the albuginea and the identification of the urethral lumen.
(4) Dartos-predicled scrotal skin island patch urethroplasties were performed in 72 patients and followed up for up to 7 years.
(5) Orchiopexy was performed in 35 mature Sprague-Dawley rats using absorbable suture, nonabsorbable suture or a classical dartos pouch technique without suture fixation.
(6) The embryologic abnormality appears to be an isolated skin and dartos defect, since the torsion is completely remedied by simply freeing the penile shaft of its investing tissue.
(7) We describe and illustrate the successful repair of a difficult, post-traumatic prostatic urethrorectal fistula by combining use of a vascularized scrotal dartos flap interposition with a modified anterior rectal wall flap fistula repair (Park's technique).
(8) In "missed" testicular torsion, scrotal scan showed a "halo sign" in the tissue phase due to intensified vascularity in the dartos, and a "nubbin sign" in the perfusion phase due to the increased perfusion of spermatic cord vessels.
(9) The tumor was placed in tunica dartos but did not connect with the testis, epididymis and spermatic cord.
(10) Excision of suprapubic fat with sectioning of the tethering dartos bands will release and increase the length of the penis.
(11) The corpus spongiosum containing the urethra was mobilized by resecting the dysgenetic tissue in the dartos and Buck's fascia layers.
(12) None except one showed a specific lesion in the dartos.
(13) There were no abscess formations in the dartos and autologous fascial fixed group.
(14) In the second stage the parietal layer of the window is attached to the dartos which remains united with the underlying subcutaneous layer, forming an excellent tract for lymph drainage.
(15) The "scrotal pouch technique," utilizing both a subcutaneous scrotal pocket for the testis external to the dartos layer and a gentle testis traction regimen, serves to diminish the chances of testis retraction after orchiopexy.
(16) A case of leiomyosarcoma arising from the dartos muscle of the scrotum is described.
(17) Scrotal leiomyomas of the tunica dartos are extremely rare and usually misdiagnosed.
(18) Dartos-fixed testes demonstrated complete circumferential adherence, normal spermatogenesis in 94 per cent and minimal focal tubular atrophy in 23 per cent.
(19) The skin defect may be related to an abnormal attachment of dartos muscle during embryogenesis.
(20) In the tissue phase increased dartos perfusion and a cold area due to the formation of abscess was observed.
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.