(1) The primarily affected eye presented with acute ACG in 71 patients, with intermittent or chronic ACG in 41, and with acute ACG secondary to intumescent cataract in six.
(2) Obviously intumescent cataractous lenses were excluded.
(3) For clinical application the initial intumescence should be taken into consideration, as well as the donor tissue thickening during its freezing for working on a lathe.
(4) Examples of intumescent, traumatic and calcified cataracts, congenital and traumatic displacements and other abnormalities are shown.
(5) In each spinal cord three levels were studied, the cervical intumescence (C5), the mid-thoracic region (T5) and the lumbar enlargement (L3).
(6) The detection of anterogradely transported HRP at the cervical as well as the lumbar intumescence was carried out as described earlier (J. Histochem.
(7) The active stage is further subdivided into intumescent (hypertrophic) and atrophic forms.
(8) In our series the lens, which was either partially or completely cataractous at the initial operation, became intumescent at different times afterwards, and an immediate removal was necessary.
(9) Mould of re-selection were almost uniformly small, showing a trend of intumescence becoming emphatically.
(10) Two rare observations of sinus pericranii are presented, characterized by a soft intumescence containing venous blood and growing in size if the head is bent or during tension.
(11) The condition may be diagnosed by local introduction of a contrast agent into the intumescence.
(12) Acute glaucoma due to an intumescent cataract should be treated medically or by peripheral iridectomy.
(13) In cataracts with gray, brown, or black nucleus and sometimes a clear cortex or deep supranuclear, subcapsular or intumescent cortical opacities, distinct hardening of the nucleus was found, which reached values 3-4 times higher than in clear lenses of 80 year olds.
(14) Therefore, no evidence was found for increased axon branching in the tract in the cervical intumescence.
(15) Severe, seemingly permanent intraocular hemorrhages caused by ocular trauma, Eales' disease and retinal vein thrombosis, lead to late formation of a dense retrolental membrane, vitreous liquefaction and intumescent cataract with faulty light perception.
(16) Hence, the association of biochemical features of thyroidal stimulation with volumetric changes in the gland strongly suggests that pregnancy truly induces goitrogenesis rather than vascular swelling ("intumescence") alone, at least in conditions with a low iodine intake.
(17) Quantitative results revealed that after labelling of the medial prefrontal cortex no peaks in labelling density, neither at the cervical nor at the lumbar intumescence, were present.
(18) It could also be demonstrated that the axial diameter of the lens remains smaller than that of the partner eye even when the cataract is intumescent with fattening of the anterior chamber.
(19) The diagnosis depends on the clinical features of intermittent attacks of localized swelling affecting one or more eyelids associated with thinning of the skin giving either an intumescent (hypertrophic) or atrophic appearance in the active stage of the condition and progressing to atrophic changes in the quiescent (late) stage.
(20) This will necessitate a second procedure which might ultimately compromise a successful corneal graft, as well as allow the possibility that some cataractous lenses may become progressively intumescent during the postoperative period and endanger the clarity of the transplant.
Puffy
Definition:
(a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
(a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of puffy fingers, digital pitting scars, and serum anticentromere antibody, all consistent with CREST syndrome, occurred in a small group of patients.
(2) The folksy and charismatic cartel leader of puffy cheeks and large nose, known to wear a baseball cap and a grey-haired goatee, was a fugitive also wanted in the US for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.
(3) A 4 year old girl is described with severe mental retardation, peculiar face with nasal hypoplasia, sparse hair, genital hypoplasia, truncal obesity, puffy hands, and small feet with complete cutaneous syndactyly of the second and third toes.
(4) A 46-year-old female was admitted to our hospital because of fatigability, puffy eye-lids, leg edema and petechia.
(5) These patients are probably most common and present with Raynaud's phenomenon and puffy hands which never reach sclerodactily.
(6) The most characteristic features were myalgia-myositis, arthralgia-arthritis, puffy, atrophic, sclerotic fingers, and Raynaud's phenomenon.
(7) Following insulin treatment, he developed gross fluid retention (peripheral oedema and puffiness of face) and a weight gain of 1.8 kg.
(8) With lots of pockets and slightly puffy sleeves (yet curiously appearing as though it would be too tight to zip up) the jacket was East Berlin before the wall went down, it was Malcolm Turnbull on Q&A and before he lost weight, it was your “groovy” maths teacher supervising your year 10 formal, it was the Masters Apprentices reunion tour in the early 1990s.
(9) The striking features include the following: (1) bitemporal scarring, an anomaly that resembles forceps marks; (2) periorbital puffiness with wrinkling of the skin; (3) abnormalities of the eyebrows; (4) anomalies of the eyelashes; (5) flattening of the nasal bridge with a bulbous nasal tip; (6) increased mobility of the skin, associated with severely redundant facial soft tissue; and (7) normal growth and development.
(10) A 35-year-old Kashmiri male with a 12-year history of recurrent aphthous ulcers of the mouth and scrotal ulcers was admitted with pedal edema, facial puffiness and proteinuria.
(11) Two patients did indeed have it, but the third patient's "puffy tumor" was a soft tissue abscess.
(12) Five patients had preoperative proptosis and diplopia, three had Pott's puffy tumor and five had erosion of the posterior table of the frontal sinus.
(13) To understand the mechanism, magnitude, and time course of facial puffiness that occurs in microgravity, seven male subjects were tilted 6 degrees head-down for 8 h, and all four Starling transcapillary pressures were directly measured before, during, and after tilt.
(14) Pott's puffy tumor, a subperiosteal abscess of the frontal bone associated with frontal osteomyelitis, is a rare complication of frontal sinusitis.
(15) The most frequently occurring clinical manifestations among the patients with MCTD were Raynaud's phenomenon, puffy hands, arthritis, myalgias, and sicca symptoms.
(16) Puffy clouds dotted a brilliant blue sky, the trees burned red, yellow and orange, and water lapped softly in the background.
(17) Examination of sera from the infected mice revealed autoantibodies that, by immunofluorescence, reacted with second antigens in the colloid (ground-glass staining pattern) and thyroglobulin (puffy staining pattern).
(18) A case of latent mastoiditis presenting with Pott's puffy tumour is described.
(19) The emojis feature the main cast of characters plus George's parents, classic objects from the show such as an urban sombrero and the puffy shirt, and some modern versions of the characters, including Glasshole Jerry.
(20) A columnist for the Independent, Joan Smith, recently watched Assange's interview of Ecuadorean president Rafeal Correa and offered up this wisdom : "He's put on weight, his face is puffy and he didn't bother to shave before his interview with Correa."