What's the difference between excrescency and outgrowth?

Excrescency


Definition:

  • (n.) Excrescence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
  • (2) Pleomorphism and irregular size of endothelial cells associated with excrescences were noted in case 3 and 4.
  • (3) 3-D-reconstructions of serial sections of human embryos show that the margin of the lip furrow band is irregular and consists of an abundance of individual epithelial excrescences.
  • (4) At higher magnification the synoviocytes showed evidence of considerable surface activity (smooth granules, larger cauliflower-like excrescences, thin lamelliform filopodia).
  • (5) The histopathologic and ultrastructural findings of globular excrescences of the peripapillary region of the optic nerve associated with retinitis pigmentosa were described in a 22-year-old patient who died in a car accident.
  • (6) Our primarily noninvasive cells form a multilayered base of rounded cells covered with various excrescences and numerous attached dividing and giant cells.
  • (7) The occurrence of excrescences on proximal dendrites was a characteristic feature of all mossy cells.
  • (8) These alterations were: (i) a fast transition of rough to smooth morphology macroscopically, and (ii) fading of the cell borders concomitant with the disappearance of cell-membrane excrescences, as seen by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (9) The operative procedures involved decompression of peripheral nerves in the foot and ankle, consisting of release of soft tissues in the tarsal tunnel and foot or removal of abnormal bony excrescences that were irritating these nerves.
  • (10) A circular zone devoid of identifiable connective tissue is present at the center of the filiform excrescences.
  • (11) Free-margin excrescences are the least numerous and occur more frequently in persons older than 40 years.
  • (12) Peritoneal washings contained malignant cells in 14 of 32 patients (not recorded or obtained in 49), cyst rupture occurred in 25%, surface excrescences in 40%, and adhesions in 46%.
  • (13) However, thickened cribriform peritoneum usually was not endometriotic (9% of n = 11) and vesicular excrescences were, in every case, reactions to oil-based salpingographic medium (n = 5).
  • (14) The sympathetic trunk itself (ganglia and cord) was affected only by osteophytes of vertebrae at the lowest thoracic levels; however, bony excrescences due to costovertebral joint arthritis were frequently found impinging on the sympathetic trunk and its rami communicantes at similar frequencies on both sides.
  • (15) Membrane-delimited vacuoles, lipid droplets and cytoplasmic excrescences appeared in myelinating Schwann cells at 24 hr; demyelinating axons appeared at 48 hr of tellurium exposure.
  • (16) Mossy fiber endings were identified by their large size and their numerous clear synaptic vesicles with some dense-core vesicles intermingled, and were observed to form synaptic contacts on the large spines or excrescences.
  • (17) One category, termed short-shaft pyramidal neurons, is characterized by short apical shafts, a large number of thorny excrescences, and densely branched apical and basilar trees.
  • (18) A calcific eyelid excrescence removed from the patient, studied by x-ray diffraction, was found to consist of crystals of hydroxyapatite.
  • (19) Comparison with phase contrast light microscopy shows that the fine excrescencies cannot be resolved and therefore lead "artificially" to a more confined aspect of the nucleoid.
  • (20) A few small excrescences are present on the proximal dendrites.

Outgrowth


Definition:

  • (n.) That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP) treatment of Neuro 2A neuroblastoma cells induces cell differentiation and neurite outgrowth.
  • (2) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.
  • (3) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
  • (4) Salt concentrations slightly lower than those providing inhibition tended to extend spore outgrowth time at low temperatures.
  • (5) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
  • (6) Adhesion to a substrate results in outgrowth of the cells and monolayer formation, even when extensive cell damage had occurred.
  • (7) These results suggest that purified laminin can facilitate and guide process outgrowth of 5-HT, DA and NE neurons during early developmental stage, but does not induce sprouting on these same fiber types in the adult brain.
  • (8) These data suggest that the induction of tau and MAP1 in response to NGF promotes microtubule assembly and that these factors are therefore key regulators of neurite outgrowth.
  • (9) However, whereas a critical value of N-CAM expression is required for increased neurite outgrowth, with small increases above this value having substantial effects, N-cadherin promotes neurite outgrowth in a highly linear manner.
  • (10) Outgrowth of neurites from neuronal cells was promoted by precoating the metal surface with either laminin or neurite promotion factor.
  • (11) Previous work from our laboratory had shown that goldfish retinal fragments explanted onto a polylysine substratum 1 to 2 weeks following optic nerve crush exhibit a striking clockwise pattern of neuritic outgrowth.
  • (12) The 33 kDa C-terminal cell and heparin-binding fragment of FN, in particular, is a strong promoter of CNS neurite outgrowth.
  • (13) Spontaneous outgrowth of immortalized Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infected B-cell clones will occur from cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNCs) of some persons with a history of EBV infection.
  • (14) The time of axonal outgrowth and the location of the cells in the developing embryo were determined by filling RS neurons retrogradely with horseradish peroxidase from their growing axons over a series of developmental stages.
  • (15) We have, therefore, developed a tool that allows us to measure microtubule polymerization equilibria out the neurites of cells in culture, which will allow us to test hypotheses that factors which affect neurite outgrowth do so by means of effects on microtubule polymerization equilibria.
  • (16) Molecular characterization of such genes could lead to the identification of molecules critical in axonal outgrowth and guidance in higher organisms.
  • (17) Recombinant F-spondin promotes the attachment of spinal cord and sensory neuron cells and the outgrowth of neurites in vitro.
  • (18) Synchrony was documented by nuclear staining and fluorescence microscopy, and by determining the variation of the buoyant density of the cells during outgrowth.
  • (19) Extraction of the recombinant proteins from inclusion bodies by guanidinium chloride, followed by two column chromatography steps, produced high yields of pure CNTF that supported survival and neurite outgrowth from embryonic chick ciliary neurons in culture.
  • (20) Reducing the inoculum to 10(4) delayed but did not prevent spore outgrowth and toxin release at pH levels below 4.6.

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