(a.) Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(2) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(3) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.
(4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(5) Fibroblasts and myofibroblasts were the cells seen in the fibrous component.
(6) In the area of the porta hepatis, there were many epithelial luminal structures in fibrous tissue with inflammatory infiltrates.
(7) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
(8) Physiotherapy for 4 to 12 weeks produced improvement, but in four cases early operation for excision of fibrous tissue and lengthening of the triceps was necessary to restore adequate flexion.
(9) A primary inflammatory malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the kidney is reported.
(10) The alveolar stability requires particular properties of both the fibrous skeleton and the alveolar surfactant film.
(11) In castrates, the prostatic stroma became thickened, with a large increase in fibrous material between and surrounding each acinus, although smooth muscle cells retained their normal cytology.
(12) At the same time optical and mechanical systems of the Soviet-made sigmoidoscope, model CBO-1, an apparatus equipped with fibrous optical elements for transmission of ligh and image, now in batch production, are described.
(13) In the remaining patients congenital and acquired osseous alterations, supernumerary scalene muscle, congenital fibrous bands were the etiologic factors.
(14) The use of SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the cyanogen bromide derived peptides from fibrous cartilage collagens enabled to calculate type I to type II collagen ratio in this tissue.
(15) The three different layers of this tissue are: the outer fibrous layer, the central part called proliferation zone and the inner part towards the underlying rib called transition zone.
(16) The latter may primarily be the case in fibrous astrocytes, which were stained in reactive and pathologic conditions.
(17) Other problematic diagnoses were cancer of the head and neck and malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
(18) Six were benign, 11 malignant fibrous, and 3 pure malignant histiocytomas.
(19) Two cases of malignant intracranial fibrous histiocytoma are presented.
(20) The later reaction was characterized by the formation of fibrous tissue without inflammatory cell infiltration.
Fibrovascular
Definition:
(a.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of these findings, we conclude that 1) BAC can be classified within the same spectrum as well differentiated papillary adenocarcinoma, and 2) selective lung metastasis occurs in well differentiated adenocarcinomas showing mild NDC abnormalities and having a thin fibrovascular stroma without apparent destruction of the alveolar wall.
(2) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(3) Associated features were severe blunt or penetrating injury, total retinal detachment, surbretinal proteinaceous exudate, and concomitant presence of preretinal fibrocellular or fibrovascular proliferations.
(4) The papillary lesions consisted of abundant fibrovascular stroma covered by biliary epithelium with low-grade and high-grade dysplasia.
(5) The MR signal was low where fibrovascular tissue, disintegrated fibrovascular tissue, amorphous necrotic material, bone, or cartilagenous tissue occupied the medullary space.
(6) The second group consisted of six cases of scirrhous carcinoma in which CGA-positive cells were separated by fibrovascular tissue.
(7) Electromyographic and pathologic findings suggest that this is a disorder of connective tissue, affecting primarily the epimysium, tendons, and fasciae, and results in marked proliferation of fibrovascular connective tissue, with associated chondroid and osseous metaplasia.
(8) Also a benign adenomatoid tumor, 6 mm in diameter, was found in the fibrovascular perisalpinx.
(9) Specific MSH binding sites were distributed throughout the tumor tissue, but not in associated fibrovascular elements or in neighboring nonmelanoma tissues.
(10) Histopathologic evaluation confirmed the inhibitory effects of mitomycin-C on fibrovascular, fibrocellular, and collagenous organization of the filtering blebs that resulted in their preservation.
(11) The ceramics alone were invaded by fibrovascular tissue without any bone formation.
(12) The vitrectomies were performed for progressive fibrovascular proliferation that caused epiretinal membranes, vitreopapillary traction, florid neovascularization, or subhyaloid hemorrhage, with or without substantial preoperative visual loss.
(13) At the light microscopic level, a fibrovascular membrane was apparent on the anterior iris stroma in 9 of 14 eyes and further involved the angle in six eyes.
(14) Argon laser photocoagulation has proved efficacious for managing macular edema and fibrovascular proliferation in some of these patients.
(15) The eyes had extensive fibrovascular proliferations growing into the vitreous.
(16) Fibrovascular polyps, together with leiomyomas, constitute the great majority of rare benign tumors of the oesophagus.
(17) Both materials, however, were resistant to invasion by fibrovascular tissue.
(18) Using immunofluorescence, fibronectin was localized on preretinal, intravitreous, and fibrovascular membranes.
(19) Histologic studies demonstrated the new-formed tissue to be fibrovascular, mainly containing collagenous fibers and fibroblast-like cells.
(20) In monkey eyes, histological examination disclosed a considerable fibrovascular proliferation around the retinal tack canal, including an inflammatory response, formation of collagenous tissue and glial proliferation.