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Friable

Definition:

(a.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.

Example Sentences:

(1) High-grade left mainstem bronchial obstruction was caused by friable granulation tissue secondary to an underlying foreign body.
(2) As for group I specifically, colonic ulcerations due to Cytomegalovirus were present in all the patients, varying from punctate and superficial erosions to deep ulcerations, with granular and friable intervening mucosa.
(3) A 65-year-old woman experienced transient paralysis of the left arm immediately after palpation of the right carotid artery; at surgery, a friable, atherosclerotic plaque was removed from the bifurcation of the artery.
(4) Thus, the skin appears to develop a relative oxygen debt during CPB which may decrease the threshold for skin injury particularly in older patients who may have other predisposing factors, such as obesity, generalized atherosclerosis, diabetes, or friable skin.
(5) On proctoscopic examination, discrete 2- to 5-mm raised plaques are seen adherent ot an edematous, friable mucosa.
(6) Rhinosporidiosis most commonly involves the nose, and presents as a friable papillomatous mass causing nasal obstruction, epistaxis, purulent discharge, and headache may also occur.
(7) Brinase added to human plasma in vitro caused a decrease in fibrinogen concentration, positive paracoagulation tests and formation of a friable clot in sequence.
(8) In normal bowel segment this may not pose a problem, but forceful attempts at eversion in diseased, thickened, and friable bowel may result in damage to the bowel segment.
(9) Steely hair disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized by slow growth, progressive cerebral dysfunction, kinky friable hair, x-linked inheritance, and death before three years of age.
(10) The presence of phosphates makes oral medical treatment ineffective, but mixed stones are more friable than pure cystine stones and are therefore easier to treat by extracorporeal lithotripsy.
(11) Although friable callus was obtained from ovary tissue cultured on a medium containing 2 mg per 1 (11 micrometer) naphthaleneacetic acid and 4 mg per 1 (18 micrometer) BAP, it produced shoots after 8 weeks of further subculture on the same medium.
(12) Clustering of largely immobile food resources and friable soils appear to be the major factors influencing chrysochlorid distribution.
(13) The liver was large, friable, and gun-metal blue, with microscopically evident hepatocyte dissociation, degeneration, and necrosis.
(14) Two peaks of activity were observed, when DNP-Gly-Gly-Ile-Arg was used as a substrate, one of them being correspondent to prevalence of dense colonies in the culture and the other to the prevalence of friable networks of hyphae.
(15) Repeated passage of the nasopharyngeal airway and nasotracheal tube over relatively friable nasal mucosa accounted for increased hemorrhage in the dilated group.
(16) Scanning electron microscopy showed that OpaC- and OpaD-containing variants yielded greater mucosal damage than OpaB-containing and Opa- variants with the least damage caused by the OpaA-containing variant (clumped bacteria from dark opaque friable colonies).
(17) Friable vegetation was attached to the auricular surface of the mitral valve.
(18) In elk 3, several of the large muscles of the hindlimbs as well as the biceps brachii muscles of the forelimbs appeared pale, dry, and friable.
(19) The gastric mucosa was erythematous, friable, and bile stained, and the histology revealed chronic inflammation.
(20) Craniotomy showed a tender, friable tumor with a yellowish cyst fluid, but apparently not invading the brain parenchyma.