(a.) Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.
(n.) Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) A patient previously reported to have discoid lupus erythematosus as a neonate eventually developed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at age 19 years.
(2) In these discoidal complexes, the alpha-helical content was estimated to be 65%, with the rest of the structure being essentially unordered.
(3) Squamous-cell carcinoma may arise in scars of chronic discoid lupus erythematosus.
(4) Complete and incomplete discoid menisci normally require treatment only when a tear occurs.
(5) This study evaluates the structural organization of the cytoskeleton within unactivated, discoid platelets.
(6) Twenty minutes after rewarming at 37 degrees C, chilled cells began to return toward normal resistance to aspiration when only 6% had recovered discoid shape.
(7) 88, 543--555] have shown that these derivatives act as partial agonists at the platelet ADP receptor inducing only the transition from discoid to globular morphology ('shape change').
(8) Feline immunodeficiency, virus infection, cryptococcosis, dermatophyte pseudomycetomas, demodicosis, Sézary-like syndrome, and discoid lupus erythematosus in cats are reviewed.
(9) Discoid LE patients who have not developed clinically significant SLE manifestations within the first 2 years of the appearance of their skin lesions have a very low risk for suffering from severe SLE complications later in their disease course.
(10) Cytochemical examinations of the activity of the lymphocyte and neutrophil acid phosphatase (AP), a lysosomal marker enzyme, was carried out in patients with discoid lupus erythematosus to assess the function of the cellular lysosomal system.
(11) Patients with localized scleroderma (n = 16) and discoid LE (n = 38) had antinuclear antibodies in 31 and 21% of cases, respectively.
(12) The most appropriate initial treatment for lateral discoid menisci in cases without tear should be observation of the clinical course with minimal treatment using diagnostic arthroscopy.
(13) We report on a 37-year-old white female with a 13-year follow-up of chronic discoid lupus erythematosus, which suffered massive bilateral visual loss coincident with the systemic exacerbation of her disease (proteinuria, pneumonia, serositis, leucopenia).
(14) Discoidal substrates for purified human lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase were prepared with human apolipoprotein A-I, cholesterol, and egg phosphatidylcholine (PC) or dipalmitoyl PC, including dihexadecyl PC in various proportions as an enzymatically inert dilutor of the interfacial PC substrate.
(15) The treatment of the discoid meniscus is based on total or partial meniscectomy, achieved by the percutaneous or arthrometric technique.
(16) The digestion of bacterial DNA by peripheral blood monocytes was impaired both in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE).
(17) Skin biopsy specimens obtained from involved skin from sixteen patients with systemic and discoid lupus erythematosus were studied.
(18) In contrast, no enhancement of cholesteryl ester transfer was observed upon addition of LCAT to either the discoidal bilayer particle preparations (containing phosphatidylcholine, cholesterol, cholesteryl ester, and apo-A-I at the molar ratio of 90:30:1.2:1.0) or high density lipoprotein 2 (HDL2).
(19) Platelets concentrated in presence of MPG were significantly better with respect to yield, maintenance of discoid shape, aggregability, and hypotonic shock response compared with control platelets concentrated in absence of MPG.
(20) We tried to establish the width of partial meniscectomy of a discoid meniscus that would prevent new tears.
Discord
Definition:
(v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
(v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
(n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
(2) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
(3) Discordance was found in three cases studied earlier, the two cases with low expression mentioned above and one cytogenetically normal case, which were now restudied with the new probes.
(4) Of 12 women followed through two pregnancies, 10 had elevated serum TSH values in both pregnancies, 1 had normal serum TSH values in both, and 1 had discordant serum TSH values.
(5) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
(6) The data on monozygotic twins further suggested that for most variables examined, the increment of environmental discordance resulting from the twinning phenomena was greater than the developmental noise that caused asymmetry within individual cotwins.
(7) The clinical and anatomic findings were reviewed in 17 patients with double-outlet right ventricle and atrioventricular discordance.
(8) Experts say they are encouraged that after months of simmering discord Xi and Trump are preparing to thrash it out at the so-called winter White House .
(9) This synchronization of dissimilar perceptions brings together disjunctive and conjunctive categories dominated by such coordinate conjunctions as "and... and", in the living diachronic discordance.
(10) Discordant segregation between COL2A1 and the mutant locus was seen in pedigrees with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, autosomal recessive spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda, hypochondroplasia, pseudoachondroplasia, diaphyseal aclasis, and trichorhinophalangeal syndrome.
(11) These results demonstrate that permselective artificial membranes can protect discordant islet xenografts from both graft rejection and autoimmune destruction for more than 1 month in an animal model that is similar in several respects to human type I diabetes.
(12) The authors present a report on two sibling with a nearly identical phenotype mimicking peroxisomal disorder but with totally discordant biochemical findings.
(13) The overall aim of the current study was to comprehensively evaluate the prevalence, impact, and health correlates of marital aggression in a clinical sample of maritally discordant couples seeking psychological treatment.
(14) These results serve in part to explain the discordant findings reported in other studies and emphasize the importance of carefully selecting the technical conditions most likely to give results that are prognostically relevant for individual patients.
(15) The other had left isomerism (quasi solitus) with an ambiguous atrioventricular connexion (quasi discordant).
(16) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
(17) Comparison of results obtained from one week to the next was evaluated in 57 test pairs; discordant data, i.e.
(18) In three patients, broncho-atrial discordance was diagnosed clinically by bronchial tomography and selective atrial angiography, and in the other one the diagnosis was made by anatomical study.
(19) Murdoch’s rise to the top of Fox prompted rumours of discord within the company, but he has said he does not pay attention to the criticism.
(20) Eighteen standard and three research scales from the California Psychological Inventory were used to identify differences in personality between twins discordant for smoking and in nonsmoking and ever-smoking twins treated as individuals.