(n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
(n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) Paradoxical embolus to the right coronary artery was demonstrated premorbidly and at autopsy.
(3) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
(4) It was concluded that the mixture is much more satisfactory than the conventional cyanoacrylates as an embolus material in vitro.
(5) There was a 12.6% incidence of pulmonary embolism, but only 1.9% of all patients developed a symptomatic pulmonary embolus.
(6) The common lung or pulmonary perfusion scan using macroaggregates of albumin or microspheres radiolabeled also gives information as to the presence of thrombosis of embolus within the pulmonary arteries, by showing the effect upon the perfusion pattern.
(7) A deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolus was found in 1.7% and was no less common in the 25% of the patients who received pharmacologic anticoagulation.
(8) If the source of the embolus can be located, medical or surgical therapy may be able to prevent the occurrence of further strokes.
(9) The total incidence of postoperative pulmonary embolus was 3.2%, with two-thirds asymptomatic and one-third symptomatic pulmonary emboli.
(10) A missile embolus, an extremely rare lesion, presents an unusual and challenging problem for the clinician.
(11) Failure to define a source of embolus kept them in the category of IUC.
(12) Anticoagulants have not been administered postoperatively, and one patient has had a systemic embolus.
(13) Low AA and low H-AA (Pattern D) developed in sera of eight patients with thrombophlebitis and seven patients with pulmonary embolus.
(14) Many patients who suffer a massive pulmonary embolus die despite emergent therapy.
(15) While traditional causes of occlusion (saddle embolus and thrombosis) are the most frequent, vasculitis and hypercoagulable states have recently been suggested as etiologies.
(16) In 9 cases, it was an air embolus, in 4 others an atheromatous embolus.
(17) The thrombolytic and pharmacokinetic properties of staphylokinase were compared with those of streptokinase in hamsters with a pulmonary embolus produced from human plasma or from hamster plasma, and in rabbits with a jugular vein blood clot produced from rabbit blood.
(18) From this an embolus may detach to the right hemisphere of the brain resulting in left sided hemiplegia.
(19) The mortality with modern therapy was 12%, and the major complication was cerebral embolus.
(20) In Group A the detection of air embolus varied from 6% using an oesophageal stethoscope to 58% by the Doppler method.
Plaque
Definition:
(n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(2) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(3) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
(4) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(5) Both antibiotics decreased plaque, and erythromycin also decreased gingivitis.
(6) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
(7) Cultures of Streptococcus mutans HS-6, OMZ-176, Ingbritt C, 6715-wt13, and pooled human plaque were grown in trypticase soy media with or without 1% sucrose.
(8) Prior incubation of these antigens with test spleen cells in the agar gel effictively inhibited development of the vibriolytic plaques, regardless of antibody class.
(9) Subgingival plaque was sampled and the presence or absence of the above mentioned bacteria assessed with BANA reagent cards (Perio Scan).
(10) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
(11) A plaque hybridization assay was adapted to rotavirus.
(12) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
(13) The addition of sodium bicarbonate to gum containing sorbitol markedly enhanced its capacity to cause and maintain an elevation of interproximal plaque pH previously lowered by exposure to fermentable carbohydrate.
(14) Arteriosclerotic plaques were found in the aorta and arteries of rabbits given homocysteine thiolactone, methionine or homocysteic acid, both parenterally and in a synthetic diet.
(15) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
(16) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.
(17) The ACI rats produced both IgM and IgG plaque-forming cells (PFC) following immunization with either form of antigen.
(18) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
(19) Injection of T-dependent antigens into the subarachnoid space and brain parenchyma induced a marked antibody production in the spleen, as detected by plaque-forming cells (PFC).
(20) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.