(n.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.
(n.) One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.
Example Sentences:
(1) A similar decline in Arabs and Druse has not been identified and awaits further analysis.
(2) Histologically, a destructive variant of the development of actinomycotic granulomas with degenerating druses of the ray fungus and mycelial inclusions was revealed.
(3) The Ytb allelic frequencies ranged between 0.1005 and 0.1522 in the Jewish communities and were 0.1294 and 0.1429 in the Arab and Druse communities, respectively.
(4) The lobe area and the diameter of the central veins were stated to have a different morphometric index, that demonstrates the presence, in the dog liver, of certain lobar complexes arranged like druses in a rock crystal.
(5) Characteristic actinomycetic druses are found histologically only in the right Fallopian tube.
(6) The pin-point lesions corresponded to single enlarged retinal pigment epithelial cells with lipid accumulation and the larger area represented a small, localized retinal pigment epithelial detachment (soft druse).
(7) It was possible to distinguish between albipunctatus-dots and druses by fluorescenceangiography.
(8) The prevalence of at least one druse within 1500 microns of the foveal center was extremely common (over 80% in each age group over 30 years of age) and not age related.
(9) The Yta and Ytb allelic frequencies were determined by examining the red cells of 1683 blood samples from Israeli Jews, Arabs, and Druse with anti-Yta and -Ytb.
(10) The soft druse was associated with thickening of the basement membrane of the retinal pigment epithelium.
Oxalate
Definition:
(n.) A salt of oxalic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that the initial rate of [14C]oxalate absorption is rapid (6.5 per cent per min), and that after 5 min the rate of absorption decreases to about 0.6 per cent per min.
(2) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
(3) The blockage of the tubular system by the calcium oxalate deposits leads to a temporary reversible increase in serum urea and serum creatinine.
(4) The differences in the amounts of rapidly releasable calcium were attributed to different kinetics of calcium phosphate and calcium oxalate dissolution.
(5) Cholestyramine known to reduce oxalate excretion in hyperuxaluria associated with ileal resection did not directly affect absorption of oxalic acid, but decreased the enhanced absorption of oxalic acid induced by bile acids.
(6) Cellulose phosphate greatly reduced phosphate crystals but resulted in a large increase in small oxalate crystals but without change in the incidence of aggregation of oxalate crystals.
(7) Excretion of oxalic acid in urine was measured in 28 healthy and 97 patients with gastrointestinal diseases.
(8) This sensor has been used in flow injection to determine oxalate, alkylamines, and NADH.
(9) The addition of oxalate to a suspension of rabbit peritoneal neutrophils before fixation with glutaraldehyde and postfixation with osmium tetroxide-antimonate greatly enhanced the amount of calcium antimonate precipitate subsequently detectable with the electron microscope.
(10) This study indicates that NaF can inhibit renal stone formation induced by EG by decreasing oxalate synthesis and urinary oxalate excretion, and suggests a possible clinical therapeutic value of NaF in the prevention of oxalate kidney stones.
(11) Absorption of calcium from intrinsically labeled Ca oxalate was measured in 18 normal women and compared with absorption of Ca from milk in these same subjects, both when the test substances were ingested in separate meals and when ingested together.
(12) The odds that uroliths submitted for analysis were composed of calcium oxalate was 2 times greater for Miniature Schnauzers than for dogs of other breeds (95% confidence interval = 1.6 to 2.4).
(13) The inhibiting activity of CaOx crystal growth and the most widely accepted inhibitors (glycosaminoglycans, citrate, magnesium, pyrophosphate), stone constituents (calcium, oxalate, phosphate, urate) and other normal urinary substances were evaluated.
(14) On histologic examination, the flecks were found to be due to intracellular accumulation of calcium oxalate in the RPE cells.
(15) X-ray spectroscopy and histochemistry demonstrated that the crystals contained mainly calcium oxalate and calcium carbonate and thus represented products of cellular metabolism.
(16) To explain the opposite effects of GTP in the absence and presence of oxalate, it is proposed that GTP activates a transmembrane conveyance of Ca2+ between oxalate-permeable and -impermeable compartments.
(17) The rapid clearance of ethylene glycol from the blood during hemodialysis is noted and the use of ethyl alcohol to block metabolic conversion of ethylene glycol to oxalic acid, which is also a toxin, is described.
(18) Patients had higher basal urinary oxalate levels than normal subjects.
(19) Such data suggest the presence of an overall neutral oxalate self-exchange, independent of common cations or anions.
(20) In contrast to concentrative cellular uptake demonstrated in rat renal cortical slices in vitro, intracellular accumulation of 14C-oxalate could not be detected in vivo.