(a.) Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have recently treated an 8-year-old boy who had leukocoria, microcornea, cataract, and falciform retinal fold in the right eye and multiple grouped patches of pigmentation in the left retina.
(2) A case is described of primary YST of the falciform ligament extending into the left lobe of the liver in a 14-month-old boy.
(3) The patient underwent a total pancreatectomy following a gastroduodenal arterial embolization to control duodenal bleeding, a resection of the ileum and falciform ligament at a second laparotomy and repeated hepatic arterial embolizations to control the growth of liver metastases.
(4) At surgery, she was found to have an infarction of the falciform ligament that was excised.
(5) It is considered to be homologous to the pecten oculi of the avian eye; to the falciform process of the teleost eye; to the supraretinal vessels of amphibians and to the intraretinal vessels of the mammalian eye.
(6) They are found with blunt dissection just to the right of the falciform ligament, encircled and ligated.
(7) Eight cases of hepatobiliary disease located adjacent to or within the perihepatic ligaments (peritoneal reflections surrounding the liver) with exophytic spread along these ligaments (three abscesses from cholecystitis, two bilomas, two hepatic abscesses, and one hematoma from a ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma, with 16 ligamentous lesions: five in the hepatoduodenal ligament, four in the ligamentum teres, three in the falciform ligament, two in the gastrohepatic ligament, one in the transverse mesocolon, and one in the duodenocolic ligament) were studied with sonography and computed tomography.
(8) Two conflictual zones are isolated: the first is linked to the clamp which is produced by the insertion of the sacro-epinous ligament on the ischial spine and the sacro-tuberal ligament; the second is linked to the falciform process of the sacrotuberal which threatens the nerve by its sharp upper edge.
(9) This is the first report of A. falciforme occurring as a disease agent in the United States.
(10) A case report of an internal hernia with the greater omentum trapped in the intact falciform ligament is presented.
(11) These two males may suffer from a form of Norrie's disease without mental deficiency, however, they may be examples of the severest form of "falciform retinal folds" (autosomal recessive) or they may represent the same end-result from a different inherited pathological process.
(12) Focal fatty infiltration of the liver adjacent to the falciform ligament constitutes a diagnostic pitfall on CT and sonography.
(13) Autologous microvessel endothelial cells were isolated from canine falciform ligament fat, were transplanted onto the luminal surface of the grafts using an intraoperative isolation and sodding technique, and both endothelial-cell-treated and non-cell-treated grafts were placed as bilateral carotid interposition grafts in a canine model.
(14) Several clinical entities, usually mistaken for or associated with PHPV, such as retinoblastoma, congenital cataract, retinal dysplasia, trisomy 13 syndrome, and falciform retinal folds are discussed briefly.
(15) The aim of this work was to study the portacaval shunts described by Sappey in the falciform ligament of the liver in the cirrhotic patient.
(16) falciforme hepatis; right lobectomy 1 cm right, left lobectomy 1 cm left to "cava-gallbladder-line".
(17) In a group of 36 cats with clinically apparent hepatobiliary disease and in which liver biopsy was done, liver hyperechoic, compared with falciform fat, was the best criterion for diagnosis of severe hepatic lipidosis with 91% sensitivity, 100% specificity, and 100% positive predictive value.
(18) The main differential diagnoses comprise retinoblastoma, retrolental fibroplasia, toxoplasmosis, falciform detachment, juvenile retinoschisis, sex-linked microphthalmia, sex-linked cataract and congenital retinal detachment.
(19) changes, the intrasinus pressure according to the phase of the clinical manifestation of intracranial hypertension, and the relation of the tumor to the superior sagittal sinus and the falciform process the authors gained important information on changes of the brain ventricles in patients with tumors of parasagittal location.
(20) Various economical and readily available organic and inorganic amendments were tested for their capacity to enhance the microbial process, including Citrus (orange) peel, Vitis (grape) pomace, feedlot manure, barley straw, chitin, pectin, ZnSO4, (NH4)2SO4, and an inoculum of Acremonium falciforme (an active Se methylating fungus).
Shaped
Definition:
(imp.) of Shape
(p. p.) of Shape
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(3) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
(4) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(5) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
(6) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(7) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(8) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
(9) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
(10) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(11) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(12) The drop in endosome pH increased and the shape of the distribution changed when the time between FITC-dextran infusion and kidney removal was increased from 5 to 20 min.
(13) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(14) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
(15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
(16) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(17) Models of the VMT nuclei were constructed to compare their size, shape and disposition across species.
(18) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(19) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(20) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.