(a.) Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantitative cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry were used to monitor T-2 toxin induced alterations in chromatin and neuronal nuclear volume in supraoptic-magnocellular neurons of rat hypo-thalami.
(2) The filar electrode used is of a unique design that allows potentiometric measurements, steady-state voltammetry and absorption spectrophotometry to be performed on a few microliters of solution containing 0.1-1.0 mM protein.
(3) These inclusions are 3.4 mu or more long, 350 A in diameter, and comprised of a wall of helically arranged subunits and a dense, possibly filar, central core.
(4) Selected nucleoli in this area were measured at 2000x power using a digital filar micrometer.
(5) Data were obtained on changes in neuronal (perikaryal) RNA levels, protein contents and nucleolar volumes in cerebrocortical (layer III) and striatal (caudate-putamen) brain regions using quantitative azure B-RNA and Coomassie-protein cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry.
(6) A filar micrometer eyepiece was used to count the number of nuclei larger than 14 microns in mean diameter in a 500 cell count on each slide.
(7) Direct and mediated electrolysis of the protein plastocyanin at a gold filar electrode is described.
(8) External and internal arterial diameters were measured by a digital filar micrometer eyepiece calibrated with a Microcode scaler.
(9) Using a Filar micrometer, 5 distances were masured on the buccal aspect: (1) from root surface notch to alveolar bone crest; (2) from root surface notch to coronal extent of the cementum; (3) from root surface notch to apical extent of the junctional epithelium; 84) from free gingival margin to apical extent of junctional epithelium; (5) from the coronal notch to the alveolar bone crest.
(10) In addition, ocular filar micrometry demonstrated increased neuronal nuclear volumes in all groups receiving T-2 toxin, and following an inverse trend to that seen with F-DNA stainability.
(11) A custom, platinum-iridium, exposed helical screw electrode (Medtronic, Inc.), 4.5-mm long, with a 17.8-mm2 surface area, was designed with a polyurethane covered 4 filar MP35N nickle conductor lead.
(12) ), affected mononuclear cells retracted from the cell surface, but remained anchored to the substrate by taut filar processes.
(13) The internal diameter of the dorsal aorta at the level of the sinus venosus and the internal diameter of the aortic arch arteries at their midpoints were measured in embryos at Stage 18 of development using a filar micrometer eyepiece and a dissecting microscope.
(14) Myelography with metrizamide clearly revealed the detailed intrathecal structures and allowed a classification of intraspinal lipomas into four types, in terms of their insertion into the conus medullaris: dorsal type, either with direct or indirect (via an intrathecal stalk) insertion of the extrathecal lipoma into the dorsal aspect of the conus medullaris; caudal type; combined type; and filar lipoma.
(15) The leakage was measured with a filar micrometer eyepiece under a dissecting microscope.
(16) Correlative data were obtained on changes in physicochemical properties of nuclear chromatin, chromatin dispersion, and nuclear volume of cerebrocortical (layer III) and striatal neurons using Feulgen-DNA (F-DNA) cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry.
(17) External and internal arterial diameters were measured by a digital filar micrometer eyepiece.
(18) Correlative data were obtained on the severity of brain AChE inactivation and physicochemical changes in nuclear chromatin of cerebrocortical (layer V) and striatal neurons using Feulgen-DNA (F-DNA) cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry.
(19) In the case of mouse CNS nuclei, the major and minor axes of the nuclei were measured with a filar micrometer.
(20) The second sirenomelic case with an intermediate degree of sacral hypoplasia had fusion of some of the sacral roots and ganglia, spinal ganglion cell heterotopias, filar lipoma and absence of the last sacral roots and ganglia.
Hilar
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the hilum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the patients with peripheral lung cancer lesions smaller than 2 cm who underwent surgery, 21% had peribronchial, hilar, or mediastinal lymph node metastasis.
(2) Two patients had hilar lymph node metastases, one of them had also involvement of pericardium.
(3) Among patients with N1 disease we observed more frequent hilar metastases in the more advanced tumors (p less than 0.05).
(4) After injection of HRP-WGA into the contralateral hippocampus 2% of hilar NPY-i neurons were retrogradely labeled and symmetric NPY-i synapses were found on the cell bodies and dendrites of unstained HRP-WGA labeled neurons.
(5) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
(6) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(7) In 17 patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, the relationships between lobar or segmental atrophy, compensatory hypertrophy, and patency of portal vein branches were evaluated with computed tomography (CT) and angiography.
(8) Thus, it was concluded that CDDP is very effective for patients with lung cancer and that CDDP administered by BAI is useful for hilar-type squamous cell carcinoma.
(9) The main finding is a hyperlucent lung with small hilar shadows on chest x-ray.
(10) The management team gets changed, amid much hilarity when a continental breakfast of croissants and fruit is brought in.
(11) Presence or absence of lung cancer and the presence and severity of silicosis of the parenchyma, pleura, and hilar glands were documented from necropsy reports.
(12) The earliest formed SSIR neurons, generated on E12 and E13, are preferentially distributed to the subiculum, those generated on E14 are most commonly observed throughout the CA1-CA3 fields of the hippocampus and SSIR neurons which become postmitotic on E15 are more heavily represented in the hilar region of the dentate gyrus than cells born at other stages of development.
(13) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.
(14) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
(15) The chest roentgenographic findings in Takayasu's arteritis include widening of the ascending aorta, contour irregularities of the descending aorta, arotic calcifications, pulmonary arterial changes, rib notching, and hilar lymphadenopathy.
(16) Eighty animals were divided into four equal groups: I--splenectomy, II--50% splenectomy with the upper half left in situ connected to the short gastric vessels, III--50% splenectomy with the lower half left in situ connected to the hilar vessels, and IV--splenectomy with implantation of splenic fragments.
(17) It was concluded that intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomy for unresectable hepatic hilar carcinoma, contributed to a temporary return to normal life, gave better results than external biliary drainage.
(18) Pleural lesions, bronchial ectasis and mediastinal and hilar lymph node changes could be diagnosed.
(19) Two patients with sarcoidosis involving pulmonary hilar lymph nodes developed the nephrotic syndrome.
(20) Twenty-five out of 33 patients with the lymph nodes metastases had hilar metastatic lymph nodes.