What's the difference between enlarge and intumesce?
Enlarge
Definition:
(v. t.) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.
(v. t.) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.
(v. t.) To set at large or set free.
(v. i.) To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
(v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
(v. i.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(2) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(3) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
(4) During the 20-year period, the number of children with the enlarged thyroid was found to be 1.5-fold as increased.
(5) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
(6) Electron microscopy revealed a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, an enlarged Golgi apparatus and many highly electron-dense secretory granules resembling those of Clara cells.
(7) Emergency CT showed evidence of pericardial effusion suggesting hemopericardium, enlargement of the ascending aorta and a peripheral semilunar filling defect which caused a slight deformation of the true channel.
(8) Liver enlargement occurred in the intact male with acetophenetidin (1.0%) but not with the N-butyryl- and thiophenol derivatives fed at 1.0 and 0.50%, respectively.
(9) These cells are characterized by enlarged nuclei which are significantly larger than those in MGCs of the Langhans type.
(10) Restriction of feed intake to 40% of normal attenuated the increases in lung weight and lavage protein concentration in MCTP-treated rats and abolished the right ventricular enlargement but did not affect the increased lavage LDH activity.
(11) In chronic active hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, both carbohydrate antigen 19-9 positive biliary ductular cells and factor VIII-related antigen positive endothelial cells were not only observed in the enlarged portal area but also extended into the parenchyma.
(12) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(13) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(14) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(15) Obstetrician-gynecologists must place lymphocytic adenohypophysitis in the differential diagnosis of pituitary enlargement associated with pregnancy, since treatment is available and the sequelae may be life-threatening.
(16) Some of these vacuoles had remnants of mitochondrial cristae or were enlarged endoplasmic reticulum.
(17) In all dosage groups of the 90-day study special histological methods revealed a dose-dependent increase and enlargement of lysosomes in the epithelia of the proximal renal tubules.
(18) The more enlarged lateral ventricles were ipsilateral with the affected visual pathways.
(19) In the transition from proliferating to hypertrophic cell zones in the growth plate, there is an increased in chondrocyte cell volume and a corresponding decrease in collagen content to allow for cell enlargement.
(20) An enlargement of the epidermal proliferative compartment has been noticed.
Intumesce
Definition:
(v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The primarily affected eye presented with acute ACG in 71 patients, with intermittent or chronic ACG in 41, and with acute ACG secondary to intumescent cataract in six.
(2) Obviously intumescent cataractous lenses were excluded.
(3) For clinical application the initial intumescence should be taken into consideration, as well as the donor tissue thickening during its freezing for working on a lathe.
(4) Examples of intumescent, traumatic and calcified cataracts, congenital and traumatic displacements and other abnormalities are shown.
(5) In each spinal cord three levels were studied, the cervical intumescence (C5), the mid-thoracic region (T5) and the lumbar enlargement (L3).
(6) The detection of anterogradely transported HRP at the cervical as well as the lumbar intumescence was carried out as described earlier (J. Histochem.
(7) The active stage is further subdivided into intumescent (hypertrophic) and atrophic forms.
(8) In our series the lens, which was either partially or completely cataractous at the initial operation, became intumescent at different times afterwards, and an immediate removal was necessary.
(9) Mould of re-selection were almost uniformly small, showing a trend of intumescence becoming emphatically.
(10) Two rare observations of sinus pericranii are presented, characterized by a soft intumescence containing venous blood and growing in size if the head is bent or during tension.
(11) The condition may be diagnosed by local introduction of a contrast agent into the intumescence.
(12) Acute glaucoma due to an intumescent cataract should be treated medically or by peripheral iridectomy.
(13) In cataracts with gray, brown, or black nucleus and sometimes a clear cortex or deep supranuclear, subcapsular or intumescent cortical opacities, distinct hardening of the nucleus was found, which reached values 3-4 times higher than in clear lenses of 80 year olds.
(14) Therefore, no evidence was found for increased axon branching in the tract in the cervical intumescence.
(15) Severe, seemingly permanent intraocular hemorrhages caused by ocular trauma, Eales' disease and retinal vein thrombosis, lead to late formation of a dense retrolental membrane, vitreous liquefaction and intumescent cataract with faulty light perception.
(16) Hence, the association of biochemical features of thyroidal stimulation with volumetric changes in the gland strongly suggests that pregnancy truly induces goitrogenesis rather than vascular swelling ("intumescence") alone, at least in conditions with a low iodine intake.
(17) Quantitative results revealed that after labelling of the medial prefrontal cortex no peaks in labelling density, neither at the cervical nor at the lumbar intumescence, were present.
(18) It could also be demonstrated that the axial diameter of the lens remains smaller than that of the partner eye even when the cataract is intumescent with fattening of the anterior chamber.
(19) The diagnosis depends on the clinical features of intermittent attacks of localized swelling affecting one or more eyelids associated with thinning of the skin giving either an intumescent (hypertrophic) or atrophic appearance in the active stage of the condition and progressing to atrophic changes in the quiescent (late) stage.
(20) This will necessitate a second procedure which might ultimately compromise a successful corneal graft, as well as allow the possibility that some cataractous lenses may become progressively intumescent during the postoperative period and endanger the clarity of the transplant.