What's the difference between homoplastic and transplantation?
Homoplastic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both cases chondroma had been diagnosed histologically at previous operations consisting of curettage and homoplastic grafting.
(2) Average preoperative myopia was -11.16 diopters (D) with a range of -5.50 D to -21.62 D. Average postoperative myopia was +0.38 D with a range of -7.75 D to +8.50 D. Selected patients (11) had secondary procedures such as homoplastic MKM, astigmatism procedures, or radial keratotomy.
(3) Trypsin was used to isolate adult mouse (heteroplastic) or rat (homoplastic) pancreatic ductal epithelium and fetal rat mesenchyme.
(4) Twelve patients who had undergone osteosynthesis with a metal plate combined with a frozen homoplastic bone graft for the treatment of fractures or pseudarthrosis were subjected to bone scintigraphy with 99 Tc MDP.
(5) Alloplastic repair is inferior to homoplastic with suturing the margin of the meningeal defect to the transplant, since it does not permit a tight closure of the subdural space.
(6) The effects of homoplastic pituitary pars distalis homogenate (PDH) (1 pituitary per frog), 40 IU pregnant mare serum gonadotrophin (PMSG), 40 IU human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG), 10 micrograms growth hormone (GH), 40 IU PMSG + 10 micrograms GH, and 40 IU HCG + 10 micrograms GH in 0.2 ml saline on oocyte growth and recruitment were also studied in these frogs.
(7) That is, the plant sequence set is much more homoplastic than that of the animal.
(8) It therefore becomes essential to associate cancellous grafts (as proposed by the AO School) (Muller et al., 1981) or a homoplastic cortical craft (as in our experience) (Zinghi and Masetti, 1982).
(9) Because of a lack of studies documenting the behavior of corneal tissue following cryoprotection and freezing, it is suggested that measurements be taken during homoplastic surgery to minimize the potential for significant inaccuracy in obtaining the desired optic result.
(10) The hemodynamic reaction following the homoplastic graft was totally different after the 4th day.
(11) The process of labyrinth determination has been studied in amphibians (three Urodela and seven Anura species) using homoplastic transplantation of ear ectoderm, containing labyrinth material onto the abdominal wall of embryos of the same stage of development.
(12) Homoplastic pituitary extract is more potent than ovine LH + FSH in stimulating gametogenic and endocrine components of the developing testis.
(13) In homoplastic keratomileusis, keratophakia, and epikeratophakia, the corneal tissue that provides the final refractive lenticule undergoes a conformational change when frozen.
(14) The repair of the distal biceps tendon is achieved by an original method using a homoplastic sling around the radius.
(15) Furthermore, densitometry of electrophoresed PCR products from 109 mother-offspring pairs indicate that heteroplasmy is stably transmitted from mother to offspring with one exception: a heteroplasmic offspring had a homoplastic mother and sib.
(16) In the treatment of valgus flat foot in adolescent patients, when growth has nearly ceased (about 13 years in the female and 15 in the male) the operation of choice is varus osteotomy of the calcaneum, stabilised by a homoplastic bone wedge, together with tenodesis of tibialis anterior and posterior.
(17) The type of graft had no effect on the results: homoplastic grafts are therefore preferable since they cause less inconvenience.
(18) A good visual result was obtained by performing homoplastic myopic keratomileusis in situ.
(19) In view of the small number of cases studied and our incomplete knowledge of the metabolic processes involved these considerations must remain hypotheses but given the excellent clinical results obtained, the relationships between homoplastic bone and host bone merit further investigation.
(20) To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of scarring of a patient's own cornea after epikeratoplasty and of treatment of a failed epikeratoplasty with homoplastic myopic keratomileusis.
Transplantation
Definition:
(n.) The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.
(n.) The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty.
(n.) The removal of a bodily organ or of tissues from one person, and the insertion of them into another person to replace a damaged organ or tissue; as, the transplantation of a heart, kidney, or liver.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
(3) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
(4) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(5) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(6) We studied 15 renal transplant recipients for evidence of tubular dysfunction.
(7) No difference in therapeutic activity between CNC-ala-17-E2 and CNC-ala could be observed in a transplanted rat leukemia (L 5222).
(8) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(9) Many thoracic motoneurons were able to survive up to posthatching stages following transplantation.
(10) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(11) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(12) Ten patients developed zoster within the first 6 months following transplant.
(13) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
(14) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
(15) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(16) Living nonrelated transplants and 0-haplotype matched transplants did well initially at 1-year graft survival but there was a decrease in graft survival in these transplant groups at 2 and 3 years.
(17) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
(18) The patients involved were told days after their transplants in November 2010 and each needed six cycles of chemotherapy.
(19) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
(20) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.