(1) Before attempting to excise the extensive elephantoid tissues, the spermatic cord and testes with their coverings were taken out by two small lateral incisions, which made the operation easier and less time-consuming and minimized the complications.
(2) Out of 19 sera from endemic residents, three of 7 endemic normals (ENS), all microfilaraemics (mf+) (n = 7) and 4 out of 5 elephantoid patient sera were positive.
(3) Three hundred fifty patients with elephantiasis of the penis and scrotum were surgically treated by excision of all elephantoid skin and subcutaneous tissues.
(4) Endemic normal sera and elephantoid sera, which exerted maximum cytotoxicity, together specifically recognised three proteins with molecular weights 25, 58 and 68 KDa and these three proteins could be among the candidate antigens that induce resistance to filarial infection.
(5) Body itching was the most commonly observed clinical sign (14.7%), followed by joint pains (12.41%) with elephantoid scrotum (3.5%) as the least.
(6) Clinical signs observed in most infected persons include body itching, joint and back pains, occasional giddiness and elephantoid scrotum.
(7) Tendon transfer and bulk reduction procedures are an alternative to amputation of the elephantoid enlarged limb with neurofibromatosis and paralysis.
(8) An active, robust, alert 90-year-old man has had nodular elephantoid lymphedema on his left leg for sixty-one years.
(9) Eight persons were found with elephantoid scrotums and all had microfilariae of M. perstans.
(10) Individuals residing in an area endemic to Wuchereria bancrofti infection were broadly categorised as endemic normals (EN), microfilaraemics (mf + ve) and elephantoids i.e., chronic lymphatic filariasis (EL).
(11) Approximately 50% of the hind legs of cats infected with Brugia malayi and insulted with a beta haemolytic streptococcus became elephantoid in appearance after four to six weeks.
(12) The morphogenetic aberrations were determined and divided into 8 groups, among which they included (1) death larvae, (2) late fourth instar larvae before pupation, (3) larvae with pupae partly emerged, (4) white pupae, (5) brown pupae, (6) elephantoid pupae of which pupae with adults visible inside, (7) pupae with apparently adults partly emerged and (8) death adults.
(13) Histologic examination of elephantoid mice revealed dilated and tortuous lymphatics containing small nonobstructive lymph thrombi composed of small mononuclear cells and multinucleate giant cells.
(14) Many endemic normal sera and most elephantoid sera exerted strong cytotoxicity against W. bancrofti microfilariae whereas none of the mf + ve sera had any such activity.
(15) Immunodeficient nude mice chronically parasitized by subperiodic Brugia malayi developed an elephantoid appearance with persistent lymphoedema of limbs and massive lymphangiectasis of subcutaneous vessels containing viable adult worms.
Ivory
Definition:
(n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
(n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
(n.) Any carving executed in ivory.
(n.) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
Example Sentences:
(1) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(2) Public opposition to the ivory trade has grown, and cooperation between conservationists and local communities has had a dramatic impact.
(3) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
(4) In the present study, serum samples were obtained from 4248 individuals from six West African countries, including Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast.
(5) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
(6) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
(7) The Ivory Coast international Sagbo had won the penalty from which Hull scored through Robbie Brady – a decision labelled "incredibly soft" by the Norwich manager, Chris Hughton – but minutes later was sent off after he clashed with Russell Martin.
(8) He is with the Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, meaning he may be unavailable until the middle of next month.
(9) For example, the DRC reported only six ivory seizures in the past two decades, yet was implicated in 396 seizures made outside of the country.
(10) Ivory epiphyses ovvurred more often in children in the lower socio-economic class and children with hemoglobin AA.
(11) He'll miss Ivory Coast's final group game against Greece.
(12) The report contains damning evidence of the potentially toxic nature of the waste Trafigura dumped in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast .
(13) In health car facilities, systems studies are commonly conducted as ivory-tower operations with minimal impact and little practical result.
(14) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(15) We’ve seen a mind-boggling 49 goals , compared with 25 at the same stage in 2010 – that's almost double, by my calculations There have been only two draws (six in 2010) A remarkable six teams have come from behind to win (Brazil, Holland, Ivory Coast, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Belgium).
(16) Their report includes the results of a survey about the sanitary protection of the children and about the respect of the ideal immunization schedule and recommended in Ivory Coast (39,9% in town and 6,2% in rural area).
(17) Consecutive man-of-the-match performances against Greece and Ivory Coast helped Colombia brush aside the lassitude that swamped the country’s World Cup preparations after injury to their talismanic striker Falcao .
(18) The analysis of these cases of elliptocytosis allow to draw the following conclusions: the frequency of the hereditary elliptocytosis varies between 0.6 to 1 per cent in Ivory Coast, the functional and structural analysis of spectrin show a high global frequency of the elliptocytosis of Model I in relation with an abnormally of alpha I domain of spectrin, all the cases detected don't give any clinical trouble.
(19) And if you want to talk about messages, what kind of message does it send to stockpile ivory like any other valuable commodity?
(20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.