(a.) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.
Example Sentences:
(1) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
(2) Mesenterial fibromatosis, also known as aggressive fibromatosis or desmoid tumor is generally associated with Gardner's syndrome but otherwise an extremely rare disease.
(3) Eight patients had a malignant tumor, three an extra-abdominal desmoid.
(4) In four cases the tumours were of desmoid structure.
(5) A history of childbirth, antecedent surgery, multiple episodes of recurrence, resistance to excisional and radiation therapy, represent common features of desmoid tumors.
(6) Three intra-abdominal desmoids were treated by radiation therapy with no response.
(7) Desmoid tumors are rare, but not in patients with Gardner's syndrome.
(8) Mesenteric desmoid tumors present difficult management problems among patients with Gardner's syndrome.
(9) A case of aggressive fibromatosis (extra-abdominal desmoid) found in a 9-month-old male mixed breed cat is described.
(10) A case of extra-abdominal desmoid tumor was studied with 67Ga scintigraphy.
(11) We describe the case of a 50 year old female patient, with abdominal pain caused by an intraabdominal desmoid tumor.
(12) The major causes of death in 36 patients who underwent prophylactic colectomy were desmoid tumor and periampullary malignancy.
(13) A 24 year old woman with Gardner's syndrome developed a massive chest wall desmoid tumour, which required radical excision and prosthetic reconstruction.
(14) Desmoid tumors of the head and neck are uncommon and associated with a posttreatment recurrence rate as high as 70 percent.
(15) The paper reports a case of mesenteric fibromatosis with familial polyposis, an association which was diagnosed as Gardner's syndrome, and highlights the complications connected to mesenterial desmoid tumours.
(16) Desmoids are uncommon mesenchymal tumours that occur at single or multiple anatomical sites, occasionally in association with polyposis coli.
(17) One IPAA patient (1 percent) required pouch excision for a desmoid tumor, while two IR patients (11 percent) required proctectomy and ileostomy for recurrent dysplastic polyps (P less than 0.05).
(18) Two cases of mesenteric desmoids observed after colectomy are reviewed.
(19) We conclude that histological features easily evaluated by conventional light microscopy provide useful information on the possible course of infantile desmoid-type fibromatosis.
(20) A retrospective review of MR images of 36 patients with histologically proved extraabdominal desmoids was done to define the MR characteristics of these tumors and to determine if MR could be used to differentiate desmoids from other benign and malignant soft-tissue neoplasms.
Fibre
Definition:
(n.) One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
(n.) Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
(n.) Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
(n.) A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(3) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(4) 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.
(5) The myofibrils composed 60%, 70% and 83% in the same fibres.
(6) Immunogold electron microscopy demonstrated that outer dense fibres were the predominant immunoreactive site.
(7) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(8) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
(9) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(10) Acetylcholine (ACh) induces a K+ current in rabbit cardiac Purkinje fibres.
(11) At the light-microscopic level, adrenergic fibres were identified due to their formaldehyde-induced fluorescence.
(12) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(13) Most often, constrictor fibres follow the course of the pterygo-palatine nerve, when dilator fibres follow the infraorbital nerve.
(14) Striated muscle fibres were found in each of twenty consecutive pineal glands cultured from individual neonatal rats.2.
(15) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(16) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
(17) Actin is present in chromosomal spindle fibres, with consistent polarity.
(18) Ranges of V0 in the three fast fibre types mostly overlapped.
(19) Accumulations of filaments in the axons and in the perineural cells were accompanied by Rosenthal fibres.
(20) A new method of staining the keratin filament matrix allowing a visualization of the filaments in cross section of hair fibres has been developed.