(v. t.) To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
(n.) Disfigurement; deformity.
Example Sentences:
(1) More specifically, disfigurement seldom was mentioned as a reason for not returning to work and for not participating in social activities with work mates, friends, relatives, and society in general.
(2) These injuries, however, have a profound potential for causing lifelong disability and disfigurement and should be addressed as soon as the patient's condition stabilizes.
(3) Trapped on Lampedusa, Fanus tried to burn and disfigure her fingerprints.
(4) One mode involves focal overgrowth of membrane bones, producing multiple hyperostoses which result in progressive craniofacial disfigurement and asymmetry.
(5) Total amputation of the penis is a disfiguring, and functionally and psychologically disabling injury.
(6) The technique allows the removal of these cavities without disfigurement of the head after the brain has been removed.
(7) By mandatory seat belt usage laws a significant reduction in deaths, disfiguring injuries, and hospital bed-days would be realized.
(8) Superiority of this treatment is attributed to the simplicity of its application and lack of disfigurement and scarring.
(9) The advantage of this flap is the donor scar which is less disfiguring than flaps from the anterior chest usually chosen in such cases.
(10) Surface measurements of the ear are needed to assess damage in patients with disfigurement or defects of the ears and face.
(11) Those who cope poorly have significantly lower self-esteem, which suggests that response to disfiguring diseases is affected by basic ego strength.
(12) This may obviate the more serious pathologic changes of advanced disease, especially the disfigurement of chronic and late filariasis.
(13) The delay in diagnosis results not only in unique somatic disfigurement but is also associated with significant mental and emotional dysfunction.
(14) Details are given about specific diagnoses, disability, disfigurement, discomfort, and the relationship of skin change to environmental and occupational exposure.
(15) Principally, there was the legal conflict with actor James Woods, who in 1988 accused her of exotic harassments including leaving a disfigured doll outside his home in Beverly Hills.
(16) In addition, disfiguration of donor sites is eliminated.
(17) Surgery of these benign lesions can at times be disfiguring, especially when the lips, muscles, or the maxilla and mandible are involved.
(18) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.
(19) There was no statistically significant association between depression and burn size or disfigurement.
(20) Channel 4's alternative Christmas message, delivered by former model and presenter Katie Piper who was disfigured in a sulphuric acid attack, attracted 500,000 viewers.
Wem
Definition:
(n.) The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.
(n.) Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.
(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.
(n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the mature neutrophil, the number of binding sites for WEM-G11 were found to be about 20,000 per cell.
(2) Moreover, it is neither easier to understand nor easier to work with and, like WEM, it also requires a prior probability.
(3) By immunoblotting, it was demonstrated that the epitope recognized by WEM-G11 is in the chain of m.w.
(4) No correlation was seen, however, between stimulation of neutrophil function in vitro and total blood leukocyte counts, neutrophil counts, monocyte counts, or intensity of binding of MAb WEM-G1.
(5) Biochemical studies presented here show that WEM-G1 recognizes the sugar sequence 3-fucosyllactosamine, Gal beta 1-4[Fuc alpha 1-3]GlcNAc.
(6) Furthermore, a strong positive correlation in the ability of neutrophils to be stimulated by the MAb WEM-G1 and either CSF-alpha (r = .76) or MNC-SN (r = .68), as well as between CSF-alpha and MNC-SN (r = .79) was demonstrated.
(7) Knowledge of the biochemical structure of the WEM-G1 antigen suggested testing granulocyte function with other monoclonal antibodies of similar specificity.
(8) A positive correlation was found between the ability of neutrophils to kill in the "resting" state and their capacity to be stimulated by MAb WEM-G1, CSF-alpha, or MNC-SN.
(9) Our results also suggest a potential clinical use of WEM-G1 in measuring neutrophil functional capacity in vitro and predicting the capacity to respond to CSF-like cytokines.
(10) The immunized group treated with "control" mouse ascites, WEM-G11, was highly resistant (90% survival).
(11) WEM-G11 F(ab')2, and to a greater extent WEM-G11 IgG, induced degranulation, but only from cytochalasin B-treated neutrophils.
(12) "I grew up thinking the true lyrics to Que Sera Sera were, Tell me ma, me ma, I won't be home for tea - we're off to Wem-ber-lee," writes John Davis.
(13) MAb WEM-G11 F(ab')2 also stimulated the phagocytosis of antibody-coated sheep erythrocytes by neutrophils.
(14) Mouse monoclonal antibody WEM-G1 specifically binds to human neutrophils and eosinophils.
(15) Hope it's chips, it's chips, we hope it's chips, it's chips Que sera sera Whatever will be, will be We're going to Wem-ber-lee Que sera sera.
(16) Depletion of adherent cells, followed by simultaneous immunomagnetic bead depletion of Leu 4+, Leu 7+, Leu 11+, Leu M1+, Leu M3+, B1+, WEM-G11+, and Glycophorin A+ cells from normal bone marrow mononuclear cells, consistently led to recoveries of erythroid and nonerythroid colony-forming cells of greater than 100% and enrichment of 13- to 99-fold.
(17) Populations of normal human colony-forming cells (blast cells) and cluster-forming cells (promyelocytes-myelocytes) were obtained from bone marrow by using the monoclonal antibody WEM G11 and the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS).
(18) There is no reason to expect WA and WEM to converge at the upper end of the scale.
(19) The agents used to stimulate cytotoxic capacity were the monoclonal antibody (MAb) WEM-G1, colony-stimulating factor (CSF-alpha), or mononuclear cell supernatant (MNC-SN).
(20) Enriched populations of either normal human promyelocytes and myelocytes or blast cells were obtained by fluorescence-activated cell sorting with the monoclonal antibody WEM-G11.