(a.) Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the two remaining patients, long-term follow-up was necessary before a factitious cause was established.
(2) Factitious psychotic symptoms were found in only 13% of the BPD sample.
(3) Septic arthritis is an uncommon manifestation of factitious illness.
(4) Eight of the 13 patients proved to have T-cell lymphoma, two had Crohn's disease, in one the lesion was factitious and two had granulomas without diagnostic histological features.
(5) Clinicians should search for an underlying affective disorder in patients who fabricate signs and symptoms of physical illness, since mania may simulate or contribute to the production of factitious behavior.
(6) Since the factitious use of mineral corticoids is not taken into account, the need of an accurate collection of case history in the differential diagnosis of hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism with hypokalemia is stressed.
(7) No CSF cultures were positive, and a diagnosis of factitious meningitis was eventually established for each patient.
(8) The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition (DSM-III) delineates three categories of factitious disorders: chronic with physical symptoms (Munchausen's syndrome); factitious disorder with psychological symptoms; and other factitious disorders with physical symptoms.
(9) The use of the DSM-III inclusion and exclusion criteria--physical mechanism explains the symptoms, symptoms are linked to psychological factors, symptom initiation is under voluntary control, and there is an obvious recognizable environmental goal--are discussed in the differential diagnosis of somatoform disorder, factitious disorder, malingering, psychological factors affecting physical condition, and undiagnosed physical illness.
(10) A 22-year-old female with factitious sickle cell anemia and recurrent painful crises is described.
(11) To the authors' knowledge, this is both the highest triglyceride level recorded and the first report of a high triglyceride level as the apparent cause of a factitiously low glucose level.
(12) If idiopathic recurrent dermal infection is observed, then factitial origin should be suspected.
(13) From 1971 to 1985, 44 cases of self-induced factitious disorders were observed in the Medical Department of a University Hospital.
(14) This combination of factitious disorders has rarely been reported.
(15) Factitious impairment of stance and gait was studied in 13 healthy drama students.
(16) Factitious cheilitis was proved with biopsy of the lips and pathological findings of acanthosis, hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis.
(17) Factitious illness was denied by the patient until it was definitively proven by using a species-specific insulin radioimmunoassay that the type of insulin circulating at the time of hypoglycemia was of animal rather than of human origin.
(18) Although patients with factitious fever form a small subgroup of all patients investigated for fever of unknown origin, the diagnosis should be kept in mind.
(19) Cases of factitious AIDS have been reported with increasing frequency since the onset of the AIDS epidemic.
(20) The amount of 660-nm light absorbed by methylene blue was sufficient to cause a factitious haemoglobin desaturation as measured by the pulse oximeter.
Silicate
Definition:
(n.) A salt of silicic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Folch extraction and partition followed by silicic acid column chromatography revealed the antigens to be glycolipids.
(2) The UE and KE fractions were then separated by silicic acid column chromatography with a stepwise elution method using ether-hexane.
(3) Increased levels of influenza virus multiplication concomitant with decreased levels of interferon occurred in cell monolayers pretreated with silicates.
(4) The dissolution t50 and various pharmacokinetic parameters showed directly compressible starch and carboxymethylstarch to be the most effective disintegrants in the concentrations employed while magnesium aluminum silicate and microcrystalline cellulose were about equal but less effective than the previous disintegrants.
(5) As with SRS-A, pSRS could be absorbed onto Amberlite XAD-2 and silicic acid.
(6) The in vivo experiments confirmed previous reports concerning unfavourable pulp reaction caused by silicate cement, while the glass ionomer cement caused mainly a mild pulp reaction after 8 days of observation.
(7) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
(8) The origin of aluminum silicate inclusions in pulmonary macrophages has yet to be determined, although preliminary evidence strongly suggests that they are derived from inhaled tobacco smoke.
(9) Purification was achieved by sequential use of partitioning in solvents, DEAE-Sephadex chromatography, base treatment, and silicic acid chromatography.
(10) Chromatography of rat-liver lipids on a column of silicic acid or a mixture of silicic acid and Hyflo Super-Cel, with chloroform-methanol mixtures, gave monophosphoinositide-containing fractions which were invariably contaminated by the presence of nitrogen-containing phospholipids.
(11) Hemolysis from silicates is decreased by interventions which remove superoxide anion or hydrogen peroxide from the medium, or by pretreatment of dusts with iron chelators.
(12) Condensation of 1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-acetyl-beta-D-galactopyranose with benzyl 2-azido-4,6-di-O-benzyl-2-deoxy-beta-D-galactopyranoside in the presence of trimethylsilyl triflate gave crystalline benzyl 2-azido-4,6-di-O-benzyl-2-deoxy-3-O-(2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-beta-D-ga lactopyranosyl)-beta-D-galactopyranoside (76%), which was converted into benzyl 2-azido-4,6-di-O-benzyl-2-deoxy-3-O-(2,6-di-O-benzyl-beta-D-galactopy ranosyl)-beta-D-galactopyranoside and condensed with 3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-2-azido-2-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranosyl bromide in the presence of silver silicate on alumina and molecular sieve 4 A to give 61% of benzyl O-(3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-2-azido-2-deoxy-beta-D-galactopyranosyl)-(1----4)- O-(2,6-di- O-benzyl-beta-D-galactopyranosyl)-(1----3)-2-azido-4,6-di-O-benzyl-2-deo xy- beta-D-galactopyranoside.
(13) Total neutral and acidic glycosphingolipids were prepared from whole tissues of the sea-water bivalve, Meretrix lusoria, and the former preparation was further fractionated into subgroups by silicic acid column chromatography.
(14) Talc (magnesium silicate) is a widely used, generally considered benign substance.
(15) Silica is a component of talc (magnesium silicate) used as a drug filler.
(16) Silicic acid could, by hydrogen bonding, alter the conformation of organic macromolecules, since hydrogen bond association can inhibit silanol condensation.
(17) A novel phosphonoglycosphingolipid named SGL-I' containing 1 mol of 2-aminoethylphosphonate residue was isolated from the skin of Aplysia kurodai using two silicic acid chromatography systems.
(18) Treatment of exposed dentin with calcium hydroxide reduced the pulp irritating effect of silicate cement restorations, but induced only limited volumes of irregular secondary dentin formation.
(19) The activity to induce IgE antibody production by fly ash instillation was almost the same as that by aluminum silicate, studied previously.
(20) Isolated cells from the siliceous sponge Geodia cydonium as well as small primary aggregates (diameter: 70 mum) consisting of them show no increase in rates of programmed syntheses and mitotic activity with time.