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Interstition


Definition:

  • (n.) An intervening period of time; interval.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Continuous measurements of renal interstital pressure are of importance for several reasons.
  • (2) At necropsy, gross lesions were characterized by diffuse, pulmonary edema and interstital emphysema; and the lungs were dark red, firm, and heavier than normal.
  • (3) Fibrin deposition often surrounds tumour plugs and is found in interstitional tissue, whereas Ca 125 is expressed mainly at tumour cell surface.
  • (4) Interstital nephritis is the most common histologic abnormality.
  • (5) Experimental results show very small fractions of trace metals to be in the form of interstital water or soluble ions.
  • (6) Four cases of adult respiratory distress syndrome secondary to viral interstital pneumonia were treated successfully.
  • (7) Control tissue tested simultaneously revealed minimal responses, but obstructed tissue containing modified interstital cells revealed statistically significant evidence of contraction in response to all three drugs studied.
  • (8) The data of the authors show that the general pattern of chiasmata in the interstitional region of chromosomes corresponds to the Poisson distribution.
  • (9) The results obtained indicate a frequent and in some cases predominant involvement of the tubules as well as interstition in the patients with hyperuricemia.
  • (10) This phenomenon was apparently possible because of the microanatomy of the pancreas, in which interstital spaces allowed accumulation of virus particles.
  • (11) The chest roentgenogram also apprises of the development, and consequently of the need for treatment, of such complications as interstital emphysema, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, pneumoperitoneum and subcutaneous emphysema.
  • (12) A new ultrastructural classification of the processes leading to portal hypertension differentiates primarily hepatocellular (e.g., increased hepatocellular size) from interstitional causes (e.g., sinusoidal capillarization).
  • (13) In chicken-pheasant hybrids, a strong positive reaction for 3 beta-HSD was observed in the interstital tissue and within the seminferous tubules suggesting that, in hybrid testes, both Leydig cells and cells of seminiferous tubules may be capable of steroid biosynthesis.
  • (14) Comparison of the neonatal effects of FSH and TSH in the cockerel testicle test revealed that the latter caused a greater increase of testicular weight, tubular diameter and testicular interstital tissue.
  • (15) In medium-sized animals, spermatids and some interstital cells appear, and in the largest lizards, spermatogenesis is completely established and Leydig cells abound.
  • (16) Electron microscopic examination of the developing ovary of 15-20-day chick embryos revealed that the interstital cells well innervated.
  • (17) The renal biopsy revealed immunofluorescence of the interstital infiltrates and the importance of this finding in the differential diagnosis of interstitial nephritis is considered.
  • (18) The lungs from animals resuscitated with baboon serum albumin showed evidence of interstitial edema, including dispersion of collagen fibers, interstitial smudging and increased interstital sodium concentrations.
  • (19) According to the decreasing interstital electrolyte and urea gradients the osmolarity of the collecting ducts of the glomerulonephritic kidneys are diminished.

Interval


Definition:

  • (n.) A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.
  • (n.) Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II.
  • (n.) A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium.
  • (n.) Difference in pitch between any two tones.
  • (n.) Alt. of Intervale

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
  • (2) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
  • (3) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
  • (4) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
  • (5) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
  • (6) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
  • (7) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
  • (8) Phospholipid changes occurring at later stages in the lytic cycle of infected bacteria are more prominent than those at earlier time intervals.
  • (9) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
  • (10) Subjects in the highest quartile of the insulin distribution had 6.6 times the risk of developing type II diabetes as subjects in the remaining three quartiles combined (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.14-13.7).
  • (11) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
  • (12) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
  • (13) Comparing the regression lines of HR-QT and HR-QS2 separately for both groups, we found that both intervals decreased in parallel and the mean QT remained shorter than QS2 in both groups during exercise.
  • (14) During recovery, while the heart rate decreased and the RR interval variance increased, there was a relative increase in LF and a relative decrease in HF in normal subjects (either sedentary or athletic).
  • (15) A table of the lengths of statistically significant intervals for various sampling interval lengths, numbers of subjects, and autocorrelation parameters is presented.
  • (16) 64% of the patients without nodular metastases and 45% of the patients with histologically ascertained nodular metastases and 45% of the patients with histologically ascertained nodular metastases survived the 3-year interval.
  • (17) The following results were obtained: 1) In normal subjects, the changes in ABR waveforms according to the changes of the rise-time, interstimulus interval and frequency of the stimulus were mainly attributed to component wave C. 2) In patients with central disorders, component wave C were initially affected.
  • (18) The hypoxia-induced prolongation of the AH interval or AH block was prevented in the presence of these drugs.
  • (19) Behavioral variables, including interreinforcement interval and drug self-administration history, appear to be important determinants of whether or not reinforcement will be demonstrated, particularly among the benzodiazepines; but the range of conditions under which behavioral and pharmacological variables interact to promote or lessen the likelihood of self-administration of these drugs remains to be determined experimentally.
  • (20) The independent effects of pain and pain coping strategies, as well as the interaction effects between pain and pain coping strategies on depression, were evaluated cross-sectionally and prospectively over a 6-month interval.

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