(n.) The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
(2) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
(3) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
(4) We present the histological criteria essential for the diagnosis of early Kaposi's sarcoma, its differential diagnosis including epithelioid angiomatosis, as well as the diagnosis of oral hairy leucoplakia.
(5) We report a patient with a hyperpigmented, non-hairy plaque on the forearm.
(6) Furthermore, sensitized C polymodal nociceptors can contribute to hyperalgesia after a mild heat injury to hairy skin.
(7) The activities of acid phosphatases (AP) were measured in leukocytes from patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML), macrophages, granulocytes, in the fractionated mononuclear cells of patients with CML and with hairy-cell-leukemia (HCL) and in the cells from patients with acute leukemia (AL).
(8) Many of the rosetting cells were shown to be typical morphologic hairy cells by light and electron microscopy.
(9) The therapy of choice for oral hairy leucoplakia in HIV-infected patients is treatment with acyclovir.
(10) In this study we provide evidence that the sera of patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL) contain a factor that can prevent the binding of a monoclonal antibody specific for interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) to its target.
(11) However, no bile duct reactivity was observed in sera from carcinoid or hairy-cell leukaemia in patients given recombinant IFN-alpha.
(12) We have investigated two cases of oral hairy leukoplakia with the goal of detecting EBV and HPV by using both in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.
(13) The skin taking extends over the insertion of the muscle up to the beginning of the hairy part.
(14) Teased-fiber techniques were used to record from 28 CMHs that innervated the hairy skin of upper or lower limb in anesthetized monkeys.
(15) dCF is the most effective single agent in the treatment of hairy cell leukemia, inducing a high percentage of CRs in all subgroups.
(16) We suggest that in hairy cell leukaemia both monocytopenia and defective functions of monocytes underlie the increased susceptibility to intracellular infections including Legionnaires' disease.
(17) In cats anaesthetized with Nembutal, the cutaneous receptive fields of individual cerebellar climbing fibres were assessed by recording the climbing fibre responses of single Purkyne cells following controlled mechanical stimulation (air jets, vibration, taps, pressure) of the foot pads of all four limbs and of the hairy skin of the limbs and the body.2.
(18) These somatotopically organized hairy receptive fields are unique, registering response patterns from tactile, thermal and behavioural stimuli.
(19) Histological examination of the splenic tissue in both cases showed changes characteristic of hairy cell leukemia.
(20) Furthermore, leukemic macrocheilitis has not been reported in hairy-cell leukemia.
Hirsuteness
Definition:
(n.) Hairiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was designed to compare these levels in hirsute women, normal premenopausal and postmenopausal women, and in men and to correlate each measurement with skin 5 alpha-reductase activity (5 alpha-RA), an excellent correlate of androgenicity.
(2) The results suggest that spironolactone is suitable for the treatment of hirsutism.
(3) Menstrual irregularity is a recognized side effect of spironolactone when used as a treatment for hirsutism in women.
(4) In 33 hirsute patients, not family related, plasma 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone (170H-P) was measured under basal conditions and after ACTH stimulation.
(5) Serum levels of testosterone (T), 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT), androstenedione (A), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S), 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-P), and cortisol (F) were measured in 33 hirsute women.
(6) We found that electroepilation (electrolysis) helps control hirsutism, and 93% of the patients improved.
(7) In the first episode, 24-year-old Lauren, whose hirsutism (due to polycystic ovary syndrome) has rendered her a virtual recluse, sees her symptoms alleviated, and her confidence so improved that she puts on a swimsuit and visits her local pool.
(8) Assessing changes in scalp hair growth may be difficult, however, and hirsutism provides a useful model for testing the efficacy of topical antiandrogens.
(9) Plasma testosterone; androstenedione and DHA were measured by radio-immunoassay before (J1) under (J2) and 24-hour after (J3) oral metyrapone (4,5 g) in 10 normal and 12 hirsute women.
(10) There can be recurrences when hirsutism is being treated in females, because of vellus hairs which have their roots in the dermis.
(11) These features distinguish patients with true Cushing's syndrome from those who have some of the clinical findings often associated with the syndrome, such as obesity, hypertension, striae and hirsutism.
(12) Other side effects including thrombocytopenia, hirsutism, headaches, tremor, and parasthesiae were common in the treated group but not of sufficient severity to warrant adjustment in the dosage or discontinuation of therapy.
(13) Hirsutism developed in a 23-year-old woman during pregnancy.
(14) Cyclosporin side effects included hirsutism, hypertension, increased blood levels of urea and creatinine, and abnormalities in liver function tests.
(15) The control of overweight may be a goal for treating hirsutism in some patients.
(16) Hirsutism was manifest in 10.5% of the patients with neuro-endocrine adiposity and disturbance of the menstrual cycle.
(17) We determined the total and free T3, T4, TSH, TBG, Plasma Cortisol transcortin, delta-4-androstenedione, FSH, LH, prolactin, total and free testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS) and 17 hydroxyprogesterone (17 OH Pg) levels in serum or plasma in a group of female patients who were taking L-T4 daily, regularly at least for 6 months and complaining of the occurrence of hirsutism.
(18) Pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism was diagnosed in a 14-year-old Arabian mare with chronic weight loss, hirsutism, polyuria, and polydipsia.
(19) The degrees of hirsutism and acne, and of seborrhea and hair loss when present, were scored by means of a modified version of the Ferriman and Gallway criteria.
(20) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.