(n.) The act or operation of eroding or eating away.
(n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The counts of EAC-receptor carrying neutrophils were two times lower in the patients with erosive ulcerative lichen planus as against those with the typical form of the disease.
(2) Endoscopy showed an irregular erosion of 4 by 2 cm, from which biopsies were taken.
(3) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(4) Poly(ortho ester) bioerodible polymers are suitable materials for the topical administration of a wide variety of therapeutic agents; varying the nature and amounts of excipients physically incorporated into the polymer will vary the erosion rates from a few hours to many months.
(5) In support of this argument, a case of erosive arthritis is reported in a skeleton from Kulubnarti, Republic of the Sudan (c. 700-1450 A.D.).
(6) As many as 72 patients with erosive and ulcerous injuries to the stomach and duodenum were examined for the clinical efficacy of antepsin (sucralfate).
(7) Important problems currently under study or requiring investigation for better understanding of the pathophysiology and management are reviewed under three major categories: acute peptic erosions and ulcers, gastric ulcer, and duodenal ulcer.
(8) We have summed up four types of essential X-ray features of cortical erosion and their pathological bases, clarified the limited ability of X-ray to reveal early cortical invasion and the range of infiltration.
(9) This is a report of the short- and long-term complications in a premature infant with tracheoesophageal fistula, including those related to central venous alimentation, seizures, chylothorax, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dental erosions, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary problems, and gall stones.
(10) Erosion was observed on all teeth, but was commonest on the upper incisors, canines and premolars, and severest on palatal surfaces.
(11) Postoperatively, visual acuity was improved and symptoms of erosion decreased in both patients.
(12) Adrenaline produced severe sub-mucosal haemorrhage, but no erosions or ulceration, while prednisolone and fasting gave no gross pathology.
(13) A follow-up study of erosive prepyloric changes (EPC) was undertaken in 60 patients who originally presented with non-ulcer dyspepsia and EPC grade 2 or 3.
(14) The presence of granularity and erosion did not much affect the estimated risks.
(15) These mice also have circulating rheumatoid factor (RF) and develop histological changes in their joints characterized by pannus formation, cartilage and bone erosions.
(16) We consider that the rarity of stricture rules out the necessity of any change in management, whether or not erosive oesophagitis is observed at endoscopy.
(17) It was hypothesized that an autoaggressive attack of lymphoid cells against the epithelium of the oral mucosa played a role in the pathogenesis of this erosive stomatitis and it was suggested that there might be a correlation between the occurrence of stomatitis and the presence of Castleman's tumor.
(18) Fatale haemoptysis occurred as a result of circumferential caustic erosion to the right intermediate bronchus caused by a tablet of ferrous sulphate which remained in contact for 4 days.
(19) Prophylactic treatment by intra-articular injections twice weekly for 4 weeks caused amelioration of canine cartilage erosions.
(20) In 17 out of 18 such patients, the two-week therapy with sucralfat (venter) resulted in the disappearance of esophagitis with multiple erosions.
Scarp
Definition:
(n.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
(n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
(n.) A steep descent or declivity.
(v. t.) To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) This beach is overlooked by a cluster of crofts and cottages with views across the Atlantic to the uninhabited island of Scarp.
(2) The semi-rural suburb, nestled halfway up the Darling Scarp, about a 45-minute drive from the centre of Perth, Western Australia, is one of the major population centres of the electorate of Canning, which will go to the polls on 19 September in a byelection triggered by the sudden death of its longstanding and popular Liberal MP Don Randall .
(3) The effect of the steroid hormones in decreasing the phosphorylation of SCARP was specific for their respective target tissues.
(4) This protein, designated SCARP (steroid and cyclic adenosine 3':5' monophosphate regulated phosphoprotein), was estimated to have an apparent molecular phoprotein), was estimated to have an apparent molecular weight of 54,000 in the gel electrophoresis system used.
(5) A protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide, abolished the effect of the steroid hormones, but not that of cAMP, on the endogenous phosphorylation of SCARP.
(6) Numerical results were generated for two models: a linear fault scarp on the seafloor, and a flat seafloor containing a rectangular channel.
(7) The effect of 17beta-estradiol and of testosterone on SCARP could be observed as early as two hours after a single dose of the steroid.
(8) The results suggest that steroid hormones regulate either the amount of SCARP or its ability to become phosphorylated.
(9) Any walk that follows the top of a scarp is good, but the section of the Cotswold Way overlooking Cheltenham has to be one of the best, with open views and a limestone upland nature reserve.
(10) Scarpe, the vestibular nuclei, the vasomotor centre and the nuclei of n. vagus.
(11) From this, we conclude that the RSL are generated by water interacting with perchlorates, forming a brine that flows downhill.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest These channels, which are between 1 metre and 10 metres wide, are on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin.