(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.
Pineapple
Definition:
(n.) A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
Example Sentences:
(1) Add the pineapple and fry on each side for 1 minute.
(2) A previously unknown cysteine proteinase, named ananain, has been isolated from crude commercial pineapple stem bromelain.
(3) Histamine, tyramine, noradrenaline, serotonin and other pressor amines occur in fruits and fermented foods such as bananas, pineapples, cheese and wine.
(4) 1 | Dale Denton … from Pineapple Express Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It’s almost a shame to smoke it’: James Franco, left, as dealer Saul Silver and Seth Rogen as Dale Denton in Pineapple Express, 2008.
(5) In a cupboard, tins of tomato soup, dried pasta, tea bags, tinned pineapple and stuffing mix.
(6) 2 Add all the remaining ingredients, cover and cook over a low heat for 30 minutes, until the pineapple is tender.
(7) The animals were treated 24 h postburn with two newly discovered enzyme fractions derived from the stem of the pineapple (Ananas comosus).
(8) After a short description of the uses of pineapple as folk medicine by the natives of the tropics, the more important new pharmaceutical applications of bromelain, reported between 1975 and 1978, are presented.
(9) They're served with tepache , an old- fashioned, lightly fermented but non-alcoholic pineapple juice drink.
(10) Hydrazinolysis of porcine thyroglobulin glycopeptides and of pineapple stem bromelain [EC 3.4.22.4] permitted the isolation of almost intact carbohydrate chains of these glycoproteins.
(11) The report was based on information gathered through interviews with the workers of a Natural Fruit pineapple processing factory and exposed violence against employees, forced overtime, the use of underage labour and the confiscation of passports of Burmese migrant workers.
(12) SHRINKING VIOLET RETURNS IN HIGHBROW DOCUSOAP UNLIKELY TO GARNER MUCH TABLOID ATTENTION Louie Spence's Showbusiness, Sky 1, 9pm – the star of Sky 1's Pineapple Dance Studios returned with his own series, debuting with 277,000 viewers, a 1.1% share of the audience.
(13) In places, as many as 47 A. simpsoni larvae were collected from one pineapple plant, and the total mean number of larvae per pineapple was 6.6, while the percentage of plants with larvae was as high as 93.6.
(14) They told me I was going to work in a pineapple factory,” recalls Kyaw, a broad-shouldered 21-year-old from rural Burma.
(15) The final execution of Ardiano Domingo — a Filipino who was hanged for killing a woman with scissors in a Kauai pineapple field — helped prompt Hawaii’s territorial lawmakers to abolish the death penalty in the state, said Williamson Chang, a University of Hawaii law school professor who teaches a course on the history of law in Hawaii.
(16) In response to rising paranoia around communism, the comic creators drew on the recent popularity of the Japanese viral sensation Piko Taro’s video Pen Pineapple Apple Pen , which has been viewed more than 16 million times.