(n.) An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inductive influence of the fascial transplant has been measured in two patients; a tenfold increase in net collagen synthesis and deposition occurs for at least one year following transplantation of fascia to an imbricated scar recipient area.
(2) Following this review, we presently recommend anatomical repair to the bone of both the anterior talofibular ligament and the calcaneofibular ligament, together with imbrication of the ligaments.
(3) The biopsy specimens from the first four surgeries showed a stroma-free spindle cell tumor with benign cytologic features and no mitotic activity, which exhibited palisading of nuclei, imbrication of delicate cytoplasmic processes (neuropil), true perivascular rosettes with cytoplasmic processes oriented perpendicular to vessel walls, and Wright rosettes.
(4) Anatomic ligament reconstruction with shortening, reinsertion, and imbrication of the elongated ligaments, a simple procedure with good long-term results, might be a better alternative than other more complex ligament reconstructions.
(5) Imbrication laryngoplasty is an alternative and a preferred modality for treatment of young people with early glottic carcinoma for whom the possible carcinogenic properties of radiation must be considered.
(6) This is accomplished by the use of multiple sclerotomies that expand the scleral shell, by use of fixation sutures between implant and shell that additionally reduce tension on the wound closure, and by the imbrication of the anterior scleral flaps to enhance the strength of the closure.
(7) Once the required shape has been achieved, the tissues at the base of the nipple, as well as the proximal cut portion of the ducts imbricating them, are reapproximated in layers to prevent recurrence.
(8) At that level, a close relationship between lymphoctes and muscle cells was observed, with imbrication of the plasma membranes and disappearance of the basal laminae.
(9) Imbrication of this part of the capsule increased the resistance to inferior and posterior translation.
(10) Limitation of motion and obligate translation were increased by operative imbrication and diminished by sectioning of the rotator interval capsule.
(11) An adequate subcutaneous tunnel was made to accept the transferred muscle and laxity of the ulnar collateral ligament of the metacarpal-phalangeal joint of the thumb, a consistent finding in patients with isolated aplasia of the abductor pollicis brevis and opponens pollicis muscles, was repaired by imbrication and suture of one of the tendinous slips to the ulnar capsule.
(12) Imbricated fractures must occasionally be repositioned surgically (2 cases).
(13) The radial collateral-ligament complex was advanced and imbricated in three of them.
(14) Plication was performed by imbricating the diaphragm in layers through a thoracotomy.
(15) Experience over a 16-year period with 38 patients who underwent partial laryngectomy with imbrication reconstruction is reviewed.
(16) The edges were rolled back and imbricated with 7-0 and 8-0 polyglactin sutures.
(17) However, anatomical ligament reconstruction (with shortening, re-insertion and imbrication of the healed but elongated ligament) is a simple procedure with good short- and long-term results, which may often be a better alternative than other more complex reconstructive procedures.
(18) One hundred and seventy-six patients (180 ankles) who had chronic lateral instability of the ankle were treated with transection and imbrication of the anterior talofibular ligament.
(19) After adequate undermining, hemostasis and imbrication, the skin flaps are rotated and advanced with sequential tension in contrast to the use of bipolar or tripolar anchoring points.
(20) At a minimum of 7 months after retinacular imbrication, all vertical and craniocaudal measurements in the affected limb were increased significantly.
Tissue
Definition:
(n.) A woven fabric.
(n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
(n.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.
(n.) Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
(v. t.) To form tissue of; to interweave.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(3) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(4) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(5) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(7) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(8) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(9) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(10) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(11) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
(12) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(13) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(14) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(15) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(16) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(17) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(18) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(19) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(20) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.