(n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.
(n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both materials elicited a surrounding inflammatory reaction containing macrophages which transgressed the interstices of only the PGA prostheses.
(2) The acellular vesicles are formed from excess nuclear and plasma membranes produced during spermatid condensation, and the ECM is topologically restricted to the interstices between acellular vesicles and sperm heads, being absent from the flagellar surface.
(3) The effluent water and solutes appear in the form of lymph in the interstices between cells.
(4) The influence on healing of three materials for closure of interstices in a macroporous Dacron arterial prosthesis were evaluated by 56-day implantation in the canine descending thoracic aorta.
(5) The potential consequences of vascular damage are described as well as the importance of pancreatic lymphatics in the transport of the escaped enzymes from the interstices.
(6) It was also suggested that the interstices of the collagen fibers in the myocardial wall constituted the lymphatic ducts outside the blood vessels and that the MAO activity in serum determined by the method in which tryptamine hydrochloride was used as substrate might indicate the grade of fibrosis of the myocardial tissue in the infarcted areas.
(7) Mesh interstices epithelialized over the surface of the full-thickness wound (control sites) or over the surface of Dermagraft (experimental sites).
(8) The interstices G1, G3 and G4 seem to contain glycoproteins, whereas interstice G3 seems to contain some type of carbohydrate.
(9) Liquid in these interstices could amplify the degree of luminal compromise due to muscular contraction in at least two distinct ways.
(10) Finally, most frequently in 10- to 12-cell embryos, typical nucleolar structure is established as a result of intranucleolar differentiation giving rise to distinct fibrillar and granular components as well as to nucleolar interstices.
(11) Examination of the posterior or inner wall of this canal, represented by the sclerocorneal trabecula, in 15 species of primates and 5 adult humans, has enabled us to observe the existence of some small orifices or stomata that are the outermost part of the so-called Sondermann's canals, which in our opinion are made by the successive confluence of the interstices worked in the interior of the sclerocorneal trabecula by means of contraction of the longitudinal portion of the ciliary muscle.
(12) Small pockets of gas, known as gas nuclei, are trapped within surface interstices.
(13) The unproven hypothesis that ankle pain may result from compression of the marrow contents into the bone interstices is presented for consideration.
(14) In grade 1 injury the testicular parenchyma shows edema of interstice, slight blood extravasation and a desquamation of the germ cells.
(15) In the entorhinal area, the superficial cortical layers (I-III) contained most enzyme activity in the superficial two-thirds of layer I, the interstices between the stellate cell bodies in layer II, and the superficial part of layer III.
(16) "Fronds," characterized by contrast within the interstices of the lesion, were seen in three malignant lesions.
(17) The alveolar subepithelial basement membrane were markedly thickened and bundles of collagen fibres were formed in the interstice.
(18) Evidence of continuous basement membrane formation at the epithelial-Dermagraft junction, which was identified by immunohistochemical staining for laminin and type IV collagen, was seen by day 14 beneath the healed epithelium in the skin graft interstices.
(19) Deposition and activation of these enzymes in the interstices presumably is associated with the transformation of lamellar body-derived lipids from a relatively polar to a non-polar mixture, as well as the degradation of other non-lipid intercellular substrates.
(20) This morphological maturation involved the gradual transformation from relatively compact nucleoli to reticulate ones which exhibited a typical nucleolonemal configuration with numerous nucleolar interstices and fibrillar centers.
Transude
Definition:
(v. i.) To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Narrowing and angulation of these veins could result in elevated back pressure favoring the formation of a transudate.
(2) Ascites fluid in liver cirrhosis and heart failure, representing a true transudate, had a comparatively low protein content while the ascites fluid in inflammatory bowel diseases including Crohn's disease had high protein content.
(3) The amount of the fluid flowing off the vessels, perfusate penetration into the intestinal lumen and its transudation through the serous membrane were determined.
(4) These effusions were borderline between exudates and transudates and showed little evidence of inflammation.
(5) Two mechanisms were proposed to explain these abnormalities: transudation of serum FFAs into the pancreatic duct and local production of arachidonic acid as a result of the damage to pancreatic cell membranes.
(6) Myxedema should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an unexplained pleural effusion no matter whether it is a transudate or an exudate.
(7) It is suggested that HSP-albumin may be used as a reliable marker of transudation of serum proteins to the genital tract.
(8) Under the conditions of this study, which included intravenous administration of cephalothin sodium preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively, the small intestinal transudate did not harbor enteric bacteria.
(9) Thus, the main anti-transudation mechanism of topical BUD is not related to modulation of BK-breakdown.
(10) However, during acute lung injury, LBP levels may rise by transudation and enhance activation of alveolar macrophages to release injurious mediators.
(11) With normal animals as with swine influenza animals, no serum antibody could be recovered neither in buccopharyngeal secretions nor in lung washings: it seems that in such conditions no detectable transudation occurs from blood to local secretions.
(12) Our results indicate that the determination of cholesterol levels is a simple and inexpensive method for distinguishing between transudate and exsudate.
(13) The activity of a nonlysosomal enzyme, i. e., lactic dehydrogenase, which was used as a marker of cell disruption and of serum transudation was the same as that of serum.
(14) We suggest that the sonographic finding of ascites and gallbladder wall thickening should be considered a valuable sign of transudative ascites and of portal hypertension whatever its cause.
(15) An algorithm for classifying effusions as transudates, modified transudates, or exudates is included, and each category is discussed.
(16) The frequent increase in CSF protein in cases of neurilemmoma is attributed to transudation of serum from abnormal vessels.
(17) Apart from these morphological changes that occur, the hydrodynamics of the transudate (from the tunica vasculosa lentis) and the aqueous humor from the ciliary epithelium appear to be essential components in the maintenance of the integrity of the anterior and posterior chambers.
(18) The differentiation of transudate and exudate is diagnostically as essential as a functional interpretation of the cell sediments of above all inflammatory effusions.
(19) The gingival fluid of the control subjects had a cAMP concentration of 2.4 X 10(-6) M, which was a hundredfold greater than that seen in serum, thus suggesting that the cAMP in the fluid resulted from active synthesis by the gingival cells and was not merely a transudate from the blood.
(20) Soluble IL-2R level in carcinomatous pleural effusions was found to be significantly higher (p less than 0.001) than that in sera of patients with carcinomatous pleural effusions and that in transudates.