(1) In the methylprednisolone group, 14 dogs had no adhesions; one had filmy adhesions; and none had dense patchy or dense diffuse adhesions.
(2) According to the birth rate and the rate of extrauterine gestation, microsurgery gives the best results in the correction of filmy adhesions, fimbrial phimosis and proximal tubal occlusion.
(3) The laparoscopic appearance of scattered yellowish-white nodules, approximately 1-5 mm in size, on the peritoneal surfaces, and filmy adhesions were suggestive of tuberculous peritonitis.
(4) The aim of this study was to develop a porous silastic tube with filmy wall acting as permanent artificial tendon.
(5) The adhesions were mostly filmy after laser treatment, as compared with thick adhesions in the conventional group.
(6) During a second inspection of the abdominal cavity-either by laparotomy (Cesarean section; 4 patients) or by repelviscopy (29 patients)-mainly avascular, filmy adhesions on one or both adnexae were found in 17 cases (52%).
(7) This procedure delineates a dark brown filmy structure in the respiratory parenchyma, which is very loosely attached to the alveoli and appears to be related to lung surfactant.
(8) The second-look evaluation of adhesion formation was not found to be consistent prior to the 7th postoperative day, since many filmy bands present prior to that time were not present later.
(9) In the control group, none were adhesion-free and none had filmy adhesions; three dogs had dense patchy adhesions and 12 had dense diffuse adhesions.
(10) Two patients were observed to have asymptomatic, diffuse, filmy white lesions involving large portions of the oral mucosa.
(11) Filmy adhesions were seen in 3 patients in the CO2 laser group.
(12) Purification of glutaraldehyde is provided by vacuum distillation with a rotational-filmy evaporator, and its concentration is determined using refractometer.
(13) Four patients had filmy adhesions, covering the tube near the incision site.
(14) Polygonal malignant epithelial cells present in sheets with loose or strong cellular cohesiveness and granular, vacuolated or filmy cytoplasm were the characteristic findings of this type of tumor.
(15) Seven of the eight 0.2 mm thick membranes caused filmy pericardial adhesions.
(16) Individual hyperplastic endocrine cells displayed granular, filmy, and ill-defined cytoplasm and round to oval hyperchromatic nuclei showing a finely granular chromatin pattern.
(17) These are inflated double-layer air-tight filmy chamber-like sheathes forming a slip-cover around injured limbs of the victims, or around their cervical vertebrae.
(18) One hundred and twenty-nine cases (95.5%) showed exudative type tuberculous peritonitis with variable amounts of ascites and filmy adhesions.
(19) The aim of the present study was to develop a porous, silastic tube with filmy wall acting as permanent artificial tendon.
(20) They are more effective on thin, filmy tissue than on fibrocartilage or articular surfaces.
Gossamer
Definition:
(n.) A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.
(n.) Any very thin gauzelike fabric; also, a thin waterproof stuff.
(n.) An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Gustav Klimt portrait of a beautiful young woman wrapped in folds of white gossamer sold for £24.8m on Wednesday night, one of the highlights of the big-money London auctions.
(2) Dave meanwhile lapsed into his shrill Bullingdon Club persona; the dividing line between self confidence and smugness is gossamer thin for the prime minister.
(3) At the same time, he largely dispensed with his breathless, gossamer sentences, which often teetered on the brink of preciousness and whimsy, and ushered in a style that was much leaner and more sinewy: "Dick!
(4) He may be lithe and louche and blessed with a gossamer touch but he is fearless too, not just decorating this team but driving it on too.
(5) With an illustrious history of materials innovation, Britain is well placed to put this carbon gossamer to work – not least, Cambridge boasts world-leading specialists in the technology of flexible, polymer-based electronics and display screens, one of the areas in which graphene looks most likely to make a mark.
(6) Such is the innate astonishingness of a drama in which historical integrity is hewn from Lego and logic is something to be bummed by one's brother-in-law behind a gossamer curtain (Ye Terry's Fabrics, £3.89 a yarde).
(7) Photograph: Sothebys The beautiful girl swathed in white gossamer was Gertrud Loew, the 19-year-old daughter of Anton Loew, a celebrated physician who ran an opulent private sanatorium beside his palatial home in Vienna, where his patients included the composer Gustav Mahler and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
(8) For the Bale money Christian Eriksen has been a lovely, gossamer, wispy little No10 , both oddly peripheral and oddly incisive at the same time.
(9) It’s also put together with a lissom confidence and a breeziness that more than compensates for a gossamer lightness when it comes to substance.” Hail, Caesar!
(10) Silvestre Varela poked home his first Premier League goal at the end of a run from halfway, a simple exchange of passes with Sessègnon enough to bamboozle a Rangers defence in which Richard Dunne twice lost his man, turning and twisting with all the gossamer grace of a fully laden municipal dustcart.
(11) But Malick's wispy, gossamer qualities, his organic, handheld imagery – always seeking wonder in harmony and balance – seem in total opposition to Kubrick's head-on, locked-down fish-eye compositions, his fanatically precise tracking-shots, sudden upsurges of brutal violence and abiding pessimism.
(12) Were a new Clifton bridge to be designed today, it might be a thing of gossamer-thin polymer cables, a spider's web of materials as strong as Atlas, yet entirely free of architectural clothing.
(13) The seven-time former champion is finally able to put the squeeze on Wawrinka, turning the tiebreak his way with a brace of brilliant forehand volleys; the first spun like gossamer, the second punched hard in anger.
(14) Huhne's lawyer argued the case against him was "at best gossamer thin" with no evidence of him having participated in any crime.
(15) 4) While he could say nothing else other than that he "believes rate cut is effective" to then follow it up with "some would say reduction in excess liquidity is due to less fragmentation" and, that the rate cut "reduces fragmentation in the periphery" is pushing on a gossamer thin bit of string, the more so when he continued later with this particular bit of bravado: "fundamentals in the Eurozone are probably strongest in the world", while saying that the recovery is "proceeding, but is weak and fragile".
(16) Kent bundles may be identified at the time of surgery but they appear to be gossamer structures usually destroyed during surgical manipulation of the coronary sulcus.
(17) They were all romancers, metaphysicals, dabblers in literary alchemy determined to spin gossamer filigree out of the apparently unpromising stuff of American life.
(18) The case, Kelsey-Fry had argued at a pre-trial hearing, was "gossamer thin".