(a.) Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions.
(a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland.
(a.) Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(2) After 6 h, radioactivity disappears in most organs, but remains notable in the kidney, lung and liver, as well as in the salivary and lachrymal glands.
(3) Therefore the proteins of lachrymal products are basic ones.
(4) Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of proteins encoded by hybrid-selected alpha 2u-globulin mRNA indicates that the liver and lachrymal translation products have different mobilities.
(5) Administration of oxotremorine to mice produced centrally-mediated effects, such as catalepsy and tremor, and peripheral muscarinic actions, such as diarrhoea and lachrymation.
(6) It was found that beta-adrenergic receptor blocking drugs may have a pharmacological effect on the lachrymal glands, but this was not associated with dry eyes or adverse reaction.
(7) It's characterized by lachrymation on the same side of the palsy in connection with stimulation of salivation (e.g.
(8) Thus, a plasma contribution is made to the IgA in tears, but greater than 99% of the tear IgA is synthesized locally in the lachrymal gland.
(9) Tissue levels were maximal within 20 min, except for lachrymal glands, thymus and brain.
(10) Marked concentration of radioactively labelled compounds was also observed in the liver, spleen, lachrymal and salivary glands, lymph nodes, mammary glands, skin, bone marrow, and, to a lesser extent, in the lung, kidney and skeletal muscle.
(11) At this time, however, high radioactive levels appear in the lachrymal gland, nasal mucosa, bone marrow and spleen, as well as in the urinary, digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems.
(12) This highlights the fact that only the children without lachrymal HIV IgA at the age of 9 months became seronegative at the age of 18 months.
(13) Branchio-oto-renal dysplasia is an autosomal dominant disorder in which affected individuals may have preauricular pits, lachrymal duct stenosis, hearing loss, branchial fistulas or cysts, structural defects of the outer, middle, and inner ear, and renal anomalies, which may range from mild hypoplasia to complete absence.
(14) In the majority of subjects where there was no uptake in the lachrymal gland, the effective dose equivalent reduces to 6.9 mSv.
(15) When the solution is moved at a velocity corresponding to that of lachrymal fluid at the surface of the human eye, the influence of viscosity may be neglected.
(16) has been localized on basolateral cell membranes of salt secreting cells in the lachrymal gland of Malaclemys.
(17) Using a DNase I footprinting assay, we find that expressing tissues (liver, lachrymal, and salivary gland) contain nuclear proteins that interact specifically with two sites in the third intron of a cloned gene.
(18) Among the possibilities suggested by these results is that alpha 2u-globulin genes expressed in liver and lachrymal glands under endocrine control are also expressed constitutively in the preputial gland.
(19) 7:1938-1946, 1987), we presented the sequences of the most abundant MUP mRNAs in the liver (MUP I, II, and III) and in the lachrymal (MUP IV) and submaxillary (MUP V) glands.
(20) Three weeks after surgical removal of the Harderian glands the lachrymal glands of 10-week-old fowls were heavier and contained more immunocompetent cells than the glands of intact and sham operated birds.
Mucocele
Definition:
(n.) An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two patients with sphenoethmoid mucoceles developed visual field defects consistent with optic chiasm dysfunction.
(2) The authors describe a rare case of mucocele of maxillary sinus and, on the basis of the histological and namely of the ultrastructural findings, they maintain that the mucocele has in all probability a multiple pathogenesis being dependent not only on the inflammatory processes, but also on other local predisposing factors and namely the active participation of the mucosa in the formation of the cavity of mucocele.
(3) In summary, we report a case of secondary infertility attributed to pseudomyxoma peritonei caused by ruptured appendiceal mucocele.
(4) We reviewed 70 patients with lower lip mucoceles for patient characteristics, clinical features, and histopathologic findings.
(5) One type of antral mucocele, commonly seen in Japan, is referred to as a postoperative maxillary cyst and is identical to the surgical ciliated cyst of the maxilla originally reported by Gregory and Shafer.
(6) Myxoglobulosis is a rare morphologic variant of appendiceal mucocele characterized by intraluminal mucinous globules of the appendix.
(7) To elucidate the role of inflammation, mucocele fragments and fibroblasts cultured from them were examined in vitro to assess prostaglandin E2 synthesis.
(8) A craniotomy followed by a bilateral external ethmoidectomy was necessary for complete extirpation of the infected mucoceles.
(9) To our knowledge, this study describes the first case of multiple intracranial mucoceles secondary to E rostratum.
(10) Epithelial-lined sialocysts of the minor oral salivary glands are rare when compared with the common mucous retention phenomenon or mucocele.
(11) No correlation between a particular pathological condition of the gallbladder (acute cholecystitis, mucocele, chronic cholecystitis, cholesterolosis) and staining pattern or intensity of staining was found for any of the apolipoproteins, although both apolipoproteins AI and AII stained more intensely than apolipoprotein B in each group.
(12) Bone was thicker on the mucocele side than on the control side.
(13) Four patients with laryngeal mucocele (fluid-filled laryngocele) are described.
(14) Seven examples of mucocele of the sphenoid sinus have been described.
(15) A 47-year-old right-handed woman suffered an accidental dural perforation in the course of intranasal drainage of a right-sided sphenoid mucocele.
(16) Floating cells also gave positive CEA staining, whereas epithelial fragments and connective tissue in the mucocele wall were lacking in CEA.
(17) Mucoceles form if the nasofrontal duct is obstructed, if mucosa is inadequately removed during obliteration and, in some instances, where islands of mucosa are isolated by mucosal laceration.
(18) The authors document two cases of mucocele-like tumors to illustrate the difficulty in separating these lesions from colloid carcinoma on the basis of fine-needle aspiration biopsy.
(19) The treatment of mucoceles by the Lynch-Howarth frontoethmoidectomy has been criticized because of a high rate of recurrence and postoperative complications.
(20) We have presented a rare case of bilateral posterior sphenoethmoidal sinus mucoceles with bilateral compressive optic neuropathy.