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Foetus


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Fetus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) B and C, were identified and their relative proportions shown to be considerably greater in the foetus than in the adult.
  • (2) Combined study of lungs of 85 foetuses and newborns of various gestational age and 8 newborns dying during the first month of life showed the lung surfactant (LS) system to develop in parallel with formation of respiratory parts and lung capillary network.
  • (3) Aplasia of the trachea associated with multiple congenital anomalies is described in a stillborn male foetus with single umbilical artery.
  • (4) An atmosphere of hydrogen eliminates this inhibition in the hydrogenase-containing T. foetus but not in E. invadens which lacks the enzyme.
  • (5) [U-14C]Glucose failed to label choline-containing lipids in T. foetus but did so in T. vaginalis, with phosphatidylethanolamine again being heavily labeled.
  • (6) This was either giant teratoma of placenta or malformed twin foetus.
  • (7) The foetuses were of both sexes (nfemale = 12, n male = 8).
  • (8) Two forms of somatomedin, which crossreact in a radioreceptor-assay using foetal brain membranes as matrix, have been partially purified from the serum of human foetuses aged 16-28 weeks of gestation.
  • (9) The histologic and ultrastructural appearance of the telencephalon of the normal 21-day guinea-pig foetus was described for comparative purposes.
  • (10) Negative influence of the drug on foetuses was not observed.
  • (11) Tertiary screening was done by examining therapeutic activity for experimental trichomoniasis in mice with Trichomonas foetus.
  • (12) Ruling on Mellet’s complaint , the committee concluded that Ireland’s abortion laws, which are among the most restrictive in the world, meant that she had to chose “between continuing her non-viable pregnancy or travelling to another country while carrying a dying foetus, at personal expense, and separated from the support of her family, and to return while not fully recovered”.
  • (13) The cerebella of thirty-five foetuses were sectioned sagittally at intervals of 100 micron, and those of five were sectioned coronally.
  • (14) Results obtained with a high pass filtered pink noise at a 106, 109 and 113 dB SPL on 37-40 week foetuses are given to illustrate this dependency.
  • (15) Antigenic tritrichomonas proteins were identified by immunoblot assay with polyclonal bovine or rabbit anti-T foetus serum.
  • (16) The cows, calves and foetuses were necropsied following either parturition or slaughter between 200 and 270 days of pregnancy.
  • (17) The dissection under an operative microscope of 46 foetuses from a homogeneous series measuring 80 to 390 mm C-R (crown-rump) is the subject of a gross anatomic study of the thymus.
  • (18) Mycophenolic acid (100 microM) completely blocked the conversion of adenine and hypoxanthine to guanine nucleotides in T. foetus mpar, although no inhibition of T. foetus mpar growth was observed at this concentration.
  • (19) While the first detectable definite response of spleen cells was seen at 60 days GA when 50% of the foetuses exhibited significant reactivity to the 3 mitogens, spleen cells from all foetuses beyond that age responded significantly.
  • (20) However, when ovariectomized mice receiving 1 mg progesterone were also given 0.01 microgram oestradiol on days 10-15, gestation was maintained and the number of live foetuses and foetal and placental weights on day 16 were normal.

Lanugo


Definition:

  • (n.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hypertrichosis lanuginosa acquisita is regarded as an obligatory cutaneous paraneoplasm and is defined as the sudden and excessive appearance of lanugo hairs on the entire integument associated with malignant neoplasm of internal organs.
  • (2) As human scalp hair grew it appeared small like lanugo hair, but the increase in diameter appeared to have been relatively rapid.
  • (3) Photomicrographs show fetal squames and lanugo hairs in the pulmonary capillaries as well as ones aspirated from the right atrium.
  • (4) Based on a comparison of this with seven other patients in the literature, the most characteristic clinical symptoms of partial trisomy 2p are concluded to be the following: abundant lanugo at birth, glabella prominence, anteverted nares, dermatoglyphic anomalies, and malformations of the eyes.
  • (5) Eighteen months later there was no evidence of the cancer, and the lanugo hairs had vanished.
  • (6) Compared with standard reported harbor seal pup measurements, 8 of the nonsurviving pups were premature (ie, creamy-white lanugo coat, early pupping season birthdate, and decreased body size [6 to 10 cm shorter and 2.3 to 4.5 kg less than normal]).
  • (7) Fine lanugo-like hair covered his face, trunk, and extremities, and there were marked pigmentation of oral mucous membrane and a painful red tongue.
  • (8) Human histopathologic studies have demonstrated that amniotic fluid cellular contents, keratinized squamous epithelial cells and lanugo hair, induce an intense inflammatory reaction including granulation tissue in the neonatal temporal bone.
  • (9) Seventy-four patients with smooth skin microsporosis with involvement of the lanugo were treated with a 10% quinosol solution in dimexid.
  • (10) On the serosa we noted an inflammation infiltrate rich in collagen fibers, frequently containing squamous cells (vernix) and lanugo.
  • (11) Histologically, keratinizing squamous cells, bile pigments, lanugo hair, and alcian-blue stained materials and cells were observed in the serosal layer of the tip of the proximal blind segment and mesenterium connecting to this portion.
  • (12) In addition to ablepharon and macrostomia, other anomalies common to all patients include auricular deformity, nasal alar deformity, absence of lanugo hair, dry, ichthyotic skin and ambiguous genitalia.
  • (13) One cyst contained some lanugo hair and a small bud of follicular epithelium.
  • (14) To address this question PAB samples from peripartum patients without clinical AFE were examined for the presence and extent of AFM (including squames, mucin, and lanugo hair).
  • (15) In the presence of trisomy for (3)q21 leads to qter and monosomy for (3)p25 leads to pter, the facial dysmorphy is unique: a distorted head shape due to irregular cranial sutures, thick low eyebrows, long eyelashes, persistent lanugo, distended veins on the scalp, hypertelorism, oblique palpebral fissures, a very short nose with a broad depressed bridge and anteverted nares, protruding maxilla, thin upper lip, micrognathia, low-set ears, and a short webbed neck.
  • (16) A 62-year-old, postmenopausal woman had rapidly appearing lanugo-type hair on her face and extremities.
  • (17) The patient with clinical AFE had many squames, clumps of lanugo hair, and mucin in one sample.
  • (18) This is the first known instance of hypertrichosis lanuginosa associated with a gynecologic cancer and the first ever observed in which the lanugo hairs disappeared after cancer therapy.
  • (19) The ablepharon macrostomia syndrome is a severe congenital condition that includes total absence of the upper and lower eyelids, failure of lip fusion that results in an enlarged, fish-like mouth, abnormally shaped ears and nose, absence of lanugo, ventral hernia, and ambiguous genitalia.
  • (20) The causes, prophylaxis, and correction of postoperative complications are described for the following: lowering the lid margin; thinning of the lid in the area of the tarsal transposition; lymph edema of the transplant; lid margin defects, and dehiscence of the wound; corneal epithelial defects; trichiasis caused by lanugo hair; keratinization of the lid margin; ectropion of the conjunctiva; retraction of the upper lid, and entropion of the upper lid.

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