(1) During icteric episodes, serum levels of bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase were markedly elevated.
(2) No interference was seen from lipaemic or icteric plasma samples.
(3) Obstructive jaundice (icteric obstructive biliopathy) was present in 38 cases.
(4) Out of the 41 icteric patients who were studied, a frequency of the presence of the LP-X was observed in 68.3% thus distributed: viral hepatitis 90,5% obstructive jaundice 85,7%, jaundice of uncertain etiology 37.6%; it was not present in 5 patients with hepatic cirrhosis and in the serum of 21 healthy volunteers.
(5) The maximal effective carcinogenic dose for non-icteric and icteric rats was 0.1 LD50.
(6) In stool specimens collected during the acute phase of illness, 27-nm viruslike hapatitis A antigen particles were shown, but only in patients with icteric hepatitis.
(7) The results indicate that ISG significantly reduced the incidence of icteric type non-B hepatitis only (inferred to be also type non-A hepatitis).
(8) Clinical signs included lethargy; pale, icteric mucous membranes; fever; and dehydration.
(9) Of eight methods examined for measuring plasma hemoglobin in micromolar concentration, all exhibited acceptable linearity, reproducibility, and concurrence except when specimens were icteric or lipemic or contained methemoglobin or methemalbumin.
(10) Serologic evidence of delta superinfection coincided with an acute icteric hepatitis, and was followed by the development of clinically evident chronic liver disease.
(11) The higher number of blood transfusions and the incidence of initial shock in the icteric trauma patients were probably related to the higher injury severity score.
(12) Antibodies neutralizing adenovirus type 5 were found in all of 50 pairs (100%) of sera from patients with acute icteric infectious hepatitis.
(13) A total of 38 episodes of icteric flare-up occurred in 19 patients.
(14) No differences were found between unicteric and icteric newborns.
(15) Non-icteric presentation had no independent prognostic value, as determined by multivariate regression analysis.
(16) We described 5 major clinical aspects: mild, icteric, icterohemorrhagic, hemorrhagic and neurological forms.
(17) A simplified procedure for the ultrafiltration of plasma may be used routinely in clinical service in cases of grossly icteric, haemolytic or turbid samples.
(18) The icteric to anicteric infection ratio in the HBsAG-positives (1:1.7) was similar to that in the negatives (1:2.1), and the clinical course in the antigen positives did not differ significantly from that of the antigen negatives.
(19) We report on a 44-year-old male patient admitted with acute severe icteric hepatitis.
(20) The coefficient of variation for icteric serum determination was 4.4--6.5%.
Mucous
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance.
(a.) Secreting a slimy or mucigenous substance; as, the mucous membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(2) These data suggest that basophilic cell function in the superficial mucous layer in the nose is of greater significance in the development of nasal symptoms in response to nasal allergy than either mucociliary activity or nasal mucosal hypersensitivity to histamine.
(3) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(4) The activity of GP sulfotransferase was mainly distributed in the microsomal fraction, and was proportional to the incubation time, substrate (mucous GP) concentration and [35S]-PAPS concentration.
(5) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(6) Chronic bronchitis, mucous hypersecretion, and liver disease, as well as a family history of emphysema, are associated conditions.
(7) The histological changes by light and electron microscopy in these patients demonstrates the metaplastic changes of the basal cell of the mucosa differentiating into mucous and keratin cells.
(8) Confirmatory tests of sinus disease are transillumination (useful in adolescents if interpretation is confined to the extremes--normal or absent); radiographic findings of opacification, mucous membrane thickening, or an air-fluid level; and sinus aspiration (indicated for severe pain, clinical failures, or complicated disease).
(9) In 40 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, the number of gastrin cells in the mucous membrane of the antrum of the stomach was measured by immunohistochemistry according to the method of L. Sternberger.
(10) Incorporation of [2-14C] sodium acetate into 7-dehydrocholesterol ketoderivative, cholesta-4,7-dien-3-on, was studied in the tissues of the rat stomach secretory and esophageal parts and in the mucous and serous membranes of the small intestine.
(11) Microscopic examination showed that the tumor was an invasive papillary growth with numerous signet-ring cells and mucous production.
(12) As to the tissular and cellular levels, the possibility of a regulation of the enzymatic and transport systems of the microvilli by means of substrates contained in the mucous membrane of the small intestine and endogenous substances (permein and antipermein) was evinced.
(13) In the stationary group the bronchograms showed only a mild mucous reaction, and peripheral filling was generally good.
(14) Cellular mucus of the mucous cells from gastric epithelium and surface mucus from gastric mucosa were obtained by perfusion in vivo of Ghosh-Lai rat stomachs with 2 M NaCl.
(15) We concluded that abdominal irradiation caused the invasion of E. cloacae from the mucous membrane of the intestine and inhibited formation of lung metastases.
(16) Bronchoscopy may then be carried out in order to study the area surrounding the diverticular orifice more closely, and to establish the condition of its mucous lining.
(17) In the cells of the cardiac region (which occupy 65% of the stomach) at least three types of mucous droplet are present.
(18) The study using the urease test on mucous biopsies from the antral gastric part and from the duodenum of patients with chronic opisthorchiasis with endoscopic evidence of antral gastritis and gastroduodenitis, and from noninvaded patients with gastritis and duodenitis, some of them with the gastric or duodenal ulcers showed that the test was positive.
(19) A case of mucous metaplasia of mesothelium in an 80 year old woman is described.
(20) Since vitamin A is involved in the promotion of mucous-secreting cells, the premature neonate may be at greater risk than the term infant for diseases involving the mucosal epithelium, including necrotizing enterocolitis.