What's the difference between irregular and poikilocyte?
Irregular
Definition:
(a.) Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular.
(n.) One who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(2) They were more irregularly curved and consisted of various substances.
(3) The results of the measurements permitted the identification of five main cytologic types, with regard to nuclear size, nuclear area dispersion and irregularity of nuclear profiles.
(4) A detailed stereochemical analysis of known protein structures has been made which shows that: (1) irregular regions of proteins consist of a limited number of standard structures formed by three, four of more residues; (2) an amino acid residue of a protein can adopt one of the six sterically allowed conformations designated here as alpha, alpha L, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon.
(5) Endoscopy showed an irregular erosion of 4 by 2 cm, from which biopsies were taken.
(6) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
(7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
(8) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(9) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(10) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.
(11) These findings are in agreement with the concept that irregular lesions represent ruptured atherosclerotic plaques and demonstrate that they usually originate from mildly occlusive smooth plaques.
(12) After 21 months, there appears to be no correlation between the amount of material adhering to the IUD and method complications (irregular and excessive bleeding) or method failure (pregnancy).
(13) The patient described in this report has the classic findings of Bardet-Biedl syndrome in conjunction with tibia vara and irregular physes of the lower extremities.
(14) After cessation her previously regular menstrual periods became very irregular and complete amenorrhea had lasted 4 months.
(15) Histochemical and electron-microscopic observations on a 30-month-old child with Hurler syndrome showed marked irregularities in chondrocyte orientation within the growth plate, along with disruption of the normal columnar architecture.
(16) The endocrine pattern and ovarian characteristics of 110 healthy adolescents with menstrual irregularities were investigated during the early follicular and premenstrual phases and were compared to those of 14 adolescents with regular menstrual cycles and 20 adults.
(17) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(18) Light microscopic examination of irregularly thickened white and black portions of abnormal scales demonstrated two distinctive populations of pigment-containing cells.
(19) In the second hypertrophied form [Type II], the endoplasmic reticulum is very prominent and occurs as a series of grossly dilated sacs of irregular shape.
(20) Disruption of the rhythmic activity of the inspiratory neurons and its replacement by a continuous and irregular discharge may lead to sustained contraction of inspiratory muscles and cessation of respiration.
Poikilocyte
Definition:
(n.) An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anaemia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both studies, the poikilocytes were identified as echinocytes, spiculated erythrocytes, and schizocytes.
(2) Spiculated poikilocytes occur in several different forms.
(3) Light microscopic studies indicated that approximately one-fifth as much urea is required to block sickling as is necessary to reverse sickled poikilocytes to normal forms.
(4) Calves less than six weeks of age had more poikilocytes, lower serum iron, higher total iron binding capacity, less adult hemoglobin and more neonatal and fetal hemoglobin than calves greater than six weeks of age.
(5) Bite cells are morphologically characterized as poikilocytes with one or more semicircular portions removed from the cell margin.
(6) Sensibilization has resulted in the rise of echinocyte, poikilocyte and schizocyte blood level.
(7) A kindred is described in which two brothers with a poikilocytic variant of hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) were found to have a defect of spectrin dimer association and a decreased spectrin-band 3 ratio.
(8) Clinical expression of HE in these families ranges from mild elliptocytosis without hemolysis to severe poikilocytic hemolytic anemia clinically resembling HPP.
(9) Thus, co-inheritance of two alpha spectrin defects can result in a poikilocytic hemolytic anemia milder than that usually found in HPP.
(10) We propose that the patients' red-cell morphology is the result of in vivo fragmentation, and that the spleen is the major site of microspherocyte and poikilocyte destruction.
(11) Poikilocytes were strongly inversely correlated (-0.9177) with age.
(12) Scanning electron micrographs showed a reversion of sickled poikilocytes to a normal erythrocyte population of biconcave discs.
(13) The blood of the subjects contained discoid erythrocytes, poikilocytes, and showed considerable anisocytosis.
(14) Occasional nonspecific poikilocytes are found in most normal blood smears, but dominance of one or more forms of poikilocytes usually is indicative of a specific anemia or disease in an organ or organ system.
(15) The action of constant current (0.01-3 A, 1-25 V) on human blood during varying exposures induced intensified plaque-formation in the preparations of the local hemolysis test, and transformation of red blood cells-discocytes into echino- and poikilocytes that was attended by pronounced changes in the extent, intensity of light diffusion, natural green and red luminescence of red blood cells caused by flavoproteins and metalloporphyrins.
(16) The clinical significance of the various round poikilocytes (spherocytes, stomatocytes, target cells) and elongated poikilocytes (ovalocytes and elliptocytes, teardrop cells, sickle cells) is discussed.
(17) The red cell morphology varies correspondingly from smooth elliptocytes to predominantly poikilocytes.
(18) In groups B and C, clinical signs of lead poisoning were mild, nonpersistent anemia characterized by the presence of poikilocytes, hupochromic erythrocytes, target cells, erythroblasts, erythrocytes with punctate basophilic stippling, reduced mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentrations, and relative lymphocytosis, neutropenia, and eosinopenia.
(19) We conclude that the abnormality in the alpha I domain originally described in HPP spectrin is shared by a subset of patients with HE; the severity of clinical expression, ranging from mild nonhemolytic HE to poikilocytic hemolytic anemia, is related to the fractional quantity of the alpha subunit that is affected.