(superl.) Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
(superl.) Human.
(superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
(2) And when nothing seems off-limits online – not to mention the intimate moments of any celebrity under the sun, or the private photos Jennifer Lawrence makes for her lover’s eyes only – does the proper fleshy privacy of sex with a partner lose its glamour?
(3) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
(4) Exposing one's fleshy bits to the gentle caress of the solar furnace has always boasted some distinguished advocates.
(5) One of the most pleasing things in recent years is that it has become easier for us in Britain to get hold of luscious, fleshy Medjool dates.
(6) Analyses of various parts of carpophores of B. edulis, Suillus luteus and Amanita muscaria indicate that in all three species the stalk contains less selenium than the fleshy part of the cap.
(7) His take on spaghetti carbonara is just as playful, the pasta replaced with crunchy strings of palmito , white fleshy palm hearts, a classic Brazilian ingredient.
(8) Three types of trabecula septomarginalis were encountered as previously described by Bortolami in ox: - Mostly (66%), the trabecula septomarginalis is a short and thick fleshy column.
(9) Three patients had passed fleshy material in the urine while in one the diagnosis was established by excretory urography.
(10) And fleshy, human, and deeply subjective stuff it is too.
(11) The consistent features include a fleshy web extending across the anterior aspect of the cubital fossa, absence of the long head of the triceps, limitation of full elbow extension and missing skin creases over the terminal inter-phalangeal joints of the fingers.
(12) M. pterygoideus ventralis lateralis has a well developed 'venter externus' slip which has its thick and fleshy insertion on the outer lateral angular and articular mandible.
(13) On the rare occasions we manage to catch up with him, we find ourselves peering into the sort of face you usually find on banknotes: brisk moustache, chin like a fleshy landslide, eyes so piercing they could blow up the east courtyard's unfinished multi-million-pound toilet block.
(14) The fleshy insertion of the outer slip of M. pseudotemporalis profundus extends ventrally over the dorsolateral surface of the mandible much more than it does in Columba.
(15) A 50-year-old woman had a fleshy lesion in her right buccal maxillary sulcus.
(16) A family is reported in which the mother and 4 of her 6 children are affected by a constellation of abnormalities including mental handicap, abnormal facies, short stature, soft fleshy hands with tapering fingers and skeletal abnormalities.
(17) The amount of S(eq) in the latter products as well as in fruits packed in unsweetened juice equalled that of the fleshy substance of ordinary sucrose-sweetened products.
(18) Therefore, the present study is restricted only to the fleshy leaf extracts [Jindal et al.
(19) This is particularly true of benthic species which conceal themselves by flattened form, fleshy protuberances or protective coloration, or which bury in the sediment or take refuge in burrows.
(20) The deep part arises by large fleshy laminae from the deep surface of the erector spinae aponeurosis.
Sarcoid
Definition:
(a.) Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thorough clinical investigation of the patient revealed sarcoid involvement of the skin, lungs, liver and lymph nodes and an extensive retroperitoneal surgically-verified lymph tumour.
(3) Ten symptomatic sarcoid patients (previously untreated) with radiological parenchymal shadowing and abnormal pulmonary function received inhaled budesonide, 800 micrograms m twice daily via a Nebuhaler for 16 weeks.
(4) Chemotactic activity was detected in BAL fluid from sarcoid patients with active pulmonary disease, but not from those without pulmonary involvement.
(5) Therapy was successful when used for periocular or solitary and smaller sarcoids.
(6) The presence of immunoglobulins and complement in sarcoid granulomata suggests that the humoral mechanism may also be important.
(7) These findings suggest that hyperprolactinaemia may be due to hypothalamic involvement by sarcoid granulomata.
(8) The diagnosis of ocular sarcoid is presumptive in the absence of systemic disease.
(9) These data indicate that the metabolite of 25OHD3 synthesized by sarcoid macrophages in vitro is 1,25-(OH)2D3 and that the macrophage is a synthetic source of the sterol metabolite in sarcoidosis.
(10) Thus, the epithelioid granulomas seen in the leiomyosarcoma were interpreted as a sarcoid-like reaction.
(11) Treatment for ulcerative sarcoid is also discussed.
(12) The present study was undertaken to test whether cultured lymphocytes and epithelioid cells from sarcoid granulomas obtained from patients with active stage 2 sarcoidosis produced chemotactic factors (CF) for leukocytes as assessed by modified Boyden's method.
(13) The distribution of equine leucocyte antigens (ELA) in Swedish Halfbreds affected by sarcoid tumors was determined and compared with that of control horses of the same breed.
(14) Five out of twenty-five (20%) of the sarcoid patients had classical non-caseating granulomata in their minor salivary glands, four of whom also had hilar lymphadenopathy and one had bone marrow involvement.
(15) Biopsies of cutaneous sarcoidal lesions were cultured for 24 hr in vitro, and the cell-free supernatants were examined for the presence of T cell growth factor (IL-2).
(16) Although irradiated sarcoid BAC supported antigen-induced T cell proliferation, normal BAC did so poorly (p less than 0.005).
(17) In a study designed to evaluate the concept of inherited susceptibility to sarcoid arthritis (SA), 42 patients with histologically proved acute disease underwent typing of HLA-A, -B, -C and -DR antigens.
(18) Antibody was detected in all 70 sarcoid and control sera; in general, titers were higher for the sarcoid patient than for the matched control subject, but the difference in the geometric mean titer was only 0.5 of a twofold dilution step.
(19) Another similar cases of the literature incite to propose the practice of special stains, above all Gomori-Grocott technical, before sarcoid-like lesions.
(20) They occur in a similar incidence in postcardiac injury syndromes, sarcoid heart disease or in dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.