(n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
(n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
(n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
(n.) Guidance; direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(2) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(3) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
(4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(5) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
(6) No methionine-enkephalin-positive nerves could be detected in the common bile duct, pancreatic duct or gallbladder.
(7) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
(8) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(9) Dacryography is the only means of exploring the permeability of the lacrymal ducts and to conclude as the whether watering of the eyes is organic or functional.
(10) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
(11) Histological studies with neonatal mice raise the possibility that Müllerian duct tissue may represent a site for the transplacental toxicity of DES in both the male and female fetus.
(12) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
(13) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
(14) A series of 172 lithiasis of the common bile duct has been analysed.
(15) Compared with the portal vein, lymphatic duct revealed a greater resistance to hypoxia.
(16) Although 25 Gy IORT plus 50 Gy EBRT was tolerated by the duodenum to 135 days, these doses may cause later pancreatic injury as an expression of damage to blood vessels and ducts.
(17) This report describes a newly developed catheter system with the aid of which the cystic duct and gallbladder can be reliably catheterized, retrograde, via an endoscope.
(18) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
(19) To study the role of the serum complement system in the early necrosis of acinar cells an acute pancreatitis was produced by injection of basement membrane antibodies into the pancreatic duct of mice and rats.
(20) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
Ductile
Definition:
(a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
(a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mechanical and biomechanical testing of a new bone cement suggests that improved load transfer to the proximal femur could be achieved with the combination of a cement having a lower modulus, a greater ductility and a lower creep resistance than polymethylmethacrylate and a suitably shaped femoral component.
(2) The above materials were generally ductile and the mechanical properties indicated a useful class of materials for clinical use.
(3) Results indicated that excellent welds can be obtained with very little loss of strength and ductility in the area of the weld joint.
(4) These materials could not be used in load-bearing applications because of the excessive grain growth and loss of the wrought structure of both the commercially pure Ti and Ti-6Al-4V substrates, and the loss of ductility in the cast Co-Cr-Mo alloy.
(5) Cast and hot isostatically pressed Ti-6Al-4V, however, has a relatively low ductility and reduced fatigue properties.
(6) Furthermore, it has been shown that the attainment of suitable strength is invariably associated with an unacceptable level of ductility.
(7) The effect of stress on a cantilever, consisting of a ductile alloy in contact with a brittle polymer, was demonstrated to be complex.
(8) The presence of the urethane bond at the N-terminus protecting group was found to reduce solubility, ductility, and processibility, probably due to interchain hydrogen bonding.
(9) Analysis of the stress-strain curves revealed a transition in the type of deformation at this point from pseudo-ductile to brittle.
(10) This composition is consistent with the hypothesis that the cement line provides a relatively ductile interface with surrounding bone matrix, and that it provides the point specific stiffness differences, poor 'fiber'-matrix bonding and energy transfer qualities required to promote crack initiation but slow crack growth in compact bone.
(11) The parameters used to assess performance were sharpness, resistance to bending, and ductility.
(12) maize starch and polymeric materials, there was an increase in the yield pressure with punch velocity attributable to a change either from ductile to brittle behaviour or a reduction in the amount of plastic deformation due to the time dependent nature of plastic flow.
(13) The purpose of this research was to evaluate the torsional strength and ductility of CP titanium in the as received condition, heat treated below the alpha----beta transition temperature, and glass bead blasted.
(14) In the present effort, the same flexure tests were reevaluated to include the parameters of stiffness, toughness, and ductility.
(15) The proximal end is ductile and the distal end rigid.
(16) A more ductile PLLA exhibiting a lower rate of degradation was prepared by extraction of low molecular weight compounds with ethyl acetate.
(17) The ductility and malleability of pure silver allow for ease of adaptation or alteration as a chairside or operating room procedure.
(18) (3) The simulated ceramic firing cycle created a small amount of ductility in SMG-2, but the lowering of the yield stress in Ceramco-0 renders the welds dangerously weak even with improved ductility.
(19) The fracture of the titanium specimens was ductile, with dimples occurring at the fracture surfaces.
(20) The superior ductility of needles made by one manufacturer was related to the specific alloy, stainless steel ASTM 45500, used in their production.