(a.) External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.
(a.) External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.
(a.) Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.
(n.) The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
(n.) Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Exteriorization is accomplished by mobilizing 2 lateral skin flaps from the perineum and joining them with the inverted U flap to reach the vagina.
(2) Seventeen strains of Lactobacillus acidophilus were evaluated to determine the relationship between bile tolerance and the presence of an outer polysaccharide layer exterior to the cell wall when viewed by transmission electron microscopy.
(3) Confirmation of diagnosis was established by exteriorization of pus with US, CT or during surgery.
(4) Sodium deficiency was induced in calves by unilateral exteriorization of the parotid duct, the continual loss of alkaline saliva from the body to the environment causing negative sodium balance.
(5) Because the three major proteins of the Karp and Gilliam strains are accessible to antibody in unextracted organisms, it is possible that the exteriorly exposed epitopes of these three polypeptides are strain specific and that their common determinants are normally buried in the membrane or otherwise inaccessible.
(6) All patients underwent resection of the involved colon and exteriorization with either a proximal colostomy (n = 7) or ileostomy (n = 3) and a distal mucous fistula.
(7) Behind the mild-mannered, laid-back exterior, the extraordinary calm, is a man of great steeliness and backbone," said one adviser.
(8) In contrast to feed artery pressure values from exteriorized muscles, which in the past have been reported to be as low as 40 mm Hg, the current mean pressure values are substantially higher and in the range between 70 and 100 mm Hg, equivalent to 70 to 90% of the mean systemic pressure.
(9) Analysis of this experience suggests that the high mortality rate associated with this complication can be reduced by early operation which removes the perforation from the peritoneal cavity (either exteriorization or resection) without primary intestinal reanastomosis.
(10) Bile became supersaturated with cholesterol in 7 female adult baboons with exteriorized enterohepatic circulations during 0.2 g per kg per day of cholestyramine treatment.
(11) Based on a personal series of 47 cases of aberrant papillae and a review of the literature, the authors stress the relative frequency of this anomaly and the almost constant possibility of making the diagnosis by means of intravenous pyelography on the basis of the following signs: regular, round or oval filling defect, surrounded by a fine opaque halo which separates it from the surrounding urine; or a notch with a regular arc-shaped border prolonged towards the exterior at its two extremities by a small spur.
(12) When polypeptide chains fold up, most polar side chains seek the exterior, where they can be solvated.
(13) The exteriorized colon is resected two weeks later.
(14) It is in the stadium design itself: one of the most striking things about the Bird's Nest is the way the latticework makes the arena open to the exterior.
(15) Between the submitochondrial sleeve and the axoneme is a space, the cytoplasmic canal, that is open to the exterior posteriorly.
(16) In our retrospective review of 65 patients with penetrating colon injuries, 33 patients were managed by colostomy formation, 30 were treated by primary repair, and two had exteriorized repair with early return to the abdominal cavity (drop back).
(17) The isolated perfused lower left lung lobe of the exteriorized fetal lamb was used to define quantitatively the relationship between pulmonary perfusate oxygen tension and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) in the fetus at multiple oxygen tensions over the range from 8.3 to 433 mm Hg.
(18) provided an etiological diagnosis in obstructive jaundice and showed a biliary tract involvement by the cyst both in patients with a complication at admission or in the past history and in 25% of the asymptomatic patients (pericystic bilioma, exterior compression of bile ducts, direct communications between cyst and biliary tree).
(19) In 4 (out of 4) pigs the skin-lined cavity was opened successfully to the exterior; it had reproduced closely the contour of the hemithorax.
(20) Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water."
Surface
Definition:
(n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
(n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.
(n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.
(n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
(v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.
(v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(3) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(4) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(5) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
(6) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(7) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(8) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(9) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(10) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
(11) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
(12) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(13) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(14) Our Ph1-positive ALL revealed B-cell lineage leukemia, since their surface phenotype were Ia+ and CD10+ and they have rearranged immunoglobulin JH genes.
(15) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for a cell surface protein antigen (SpaA) of Streptococcus sobrinus MT3791 (serotype g) was determined.
(16) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(17) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
(18) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
(19) Within the capillary-perfused mucosa and muscularis (between 50 and 2000 microns from the urothelial surface), concentrations decreased by 50% for each 500-microns distance.
(20) Displacement of the surface of the cornea of bovine eyes after disruption of intact structures was investigated by means of holographic interferometry.