(n.) The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.
(n.) State of being indurated, or of having become hard.
(n.) Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phaso-contrast and interference microscopy investigations revealed in the damaged cells an induration of the sarcoplasmic matrix due to an increase in the dry matter concentration.
(2) The indurations from immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reactions were readily distinguishable, but the hyperthermic responses appeared to contain elements of both immediate and delayed hypersensitivity.
(3) This feature of ILC may also help explain why tumors may be palpable as areas of vague induration or thickening rather than as discrete masses.
(4) Since therapy performed by means of the moving head technique had beneficial effect on chronic prostatitis, plastic induration of the penis and the accompanying sexual potency disturbance, the method is recommended for use.
(5) Such a treatment augmented erythematous delayed reactions in animals immunized with BGG in CFA, but abolished induration at the reaction sites.
(6) While most of the clinical features--including diffuse mucosal inflammation, indurative edema, rash, and lymphadenopathy--are self-limiting, coronary artery aneurysms and the possibility of thrombotic occlusion occurs in up to 20% of children.
(7) We describe 2 patients who presented with chronic painful indurated swelling of one lower limb, thought at the time of referral to be due to chronic venous insufficiency.
(8) In the early postoperative period within an observation period from 3 to 19 months the characteristic and rather common complications in patients operated for hydrocele did not occur (hematocele, chylomas, which are mostly of ex vacuo type because of impaired blood supply and lymph system of the scrotum, abscesses, indurations of the scrotal and testicular tissues, relapses of the hydrocele, etc).
(9) Distal areas in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), such as the dorsal skin of the hand are more frequently involved and more indurated than proximal areas.
(10) Clinical signs included lesions, indurations, and enlargement of lymph nodes.
(11) The precise basis of induration has not been established, although activation of the clotting system with consequent fibrin deposition has been clearly implicated.
(12) When IL-1 was injected intradermally into the backs of rabbits, the injection sites became indurated, erythematous, and warm to the touch after 4 hrs and annular lesions much like those of erythema chronicum migrans were seen in some animals after 24 hrs.
(13) In contrast to epicutaneous spongiotic contact dermatitis, HLA-DR was only seen on skin appendages and nearby basal keratinocytes in indurated tissue reactions with the exception of the reactions with focal basal cell layer disruption and an indurated patch test performed one week post angry back syndrome.
(14) A 52-year-old woman who had undergone an intrapleural sponge plombage operation because of tuberculosis, and had since shown an uneventful medical history for 35 years, was referred with a complaint of back skin induration over the previous surgical scar.
(15) The prevalence of tuberculous infection in a population is generally estimated from calculating the proportion of tested individuals who react with at least 10 mm of induration to 5 TU of PPD-S tuberculin.
(16) After 16 months, one of the two infected ewes suffered from indurative lymphocytic mastitis.
(17) In the guinea pigs an intradermal dose of PHA-P produced erythema and induration with a maximal response at 24 hours after the injection.
(18) Anergy, defined as no induration to any of four intradermal antigens, was present in 12%.
(19) Either the palpation method or the ball-point pen technique may be used to measure induration that results from TB skin testing.
(20) Similar, but less severe changes were seen at the site of skin tests on BCG-vaccinated subjects who were 'negative' by conventional criteria of measurement of dermal induration and they became greatly exaggerated after successful re-vaccination.
Neoplastic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a cytokine, with potential anti-neoplastic effects.
(2) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
(3) The nature of these infiltrative foci remains uncertain; however, they are unlikely to have been of neoplastic origin and may be due to interleukin-2-induced lymphocytic infiltration.
(4) All but two neoplastic foci from the 83 tumors stained for prolactin, and 14 of these also stained for growth hormone.
(5) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
(6) Losses of RNase activities in preneoplastic tissues are followed by changes in the properties of cytoplasmic RNA probably due to alterations in ribosomes in areas of neoplastic transformation.
(7) The intraosseous neoplastic extent has been compared with macroslides of surgical specimens in 24 cases.
(8) The effect of various anti-neoplastic drugs on erythrophagocytosis was studied.
(9) It is concluded that the BD-5 antibody reacts with an epitope normally present on intestinal mucosa, which, following neoplastic transformation, is ectopically expressed also on gastric and pancreatic carcinomas.
(10) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
(11) Gangliogliomas are rare benign tumors of the central nervous system containing neoplastic ganglion and low grade glial cells.
(12) The identification of the viral oncogene v-erbA carried by an avian leukemia retrovirus has directly demonstrated the involvement of hormone receptors in neoplastic transformation.
(13) Ultrastructural differences between normal neoplasmic cells observed in this work may be the cause of the behaviour of neoplastic cells in tissue culture.
(14) Malignant angioendotheliomatosis is a lymphoma in which the neoplastic cells accumulate in vascular lumens.
(15) Oncomodulin might be a suitable neoplastic marker to study chemical carcinogenesis.
(16) An attempt has been made to construct an assay potentially suitable for use with primary cultures of human tumours to measure the survival of exponentially growing monolayer cultures after exposure to anti-neoplastic drugs.
(17) The neoplastic T cells of three patients had helper activity on both PWM- and IL-2-driven Ig synthesis, and in addition produced IL-2 in response to PWM stimulation.
(18) Conventional lymphography still yields the best results in differentiating between primary lymphedema with aplasia of the aorto-iliac collectors and a secondary form due to neoplastic disease.
(19) The flounder developed renal and pancreatic neoplasms and hepatotoxic neoplastic precursor lesions, demonstrating trophic transfer of sediment-bound carcinogens up the food chain.
(20) This postoperative surveillance was aimed at discovering benign or malignant neoplastic growth within the remaining large bowel.