(n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
(n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Casts of lacunae and canaliculi along with the underlying matrix could be visualized in these preparations.
(2) This kind of distribution of microfilaments was always associated with resorption lacunae, and F-actin, vinculin, and talin zones correspond roughly to the edge of lacunae.
(3) As lacunae develop, both syncytial and cytotrophoblast are exposed to maternal blood.
(4) A cartilage is regarded as 'cell-rich' if its cells or their lacunae occupy more than half of the tissue volume.
(5) Intravenous urography reveals the presence of a persistent lacuna in a calix or of the pelvis, radiologic evidence of the abnormal papilla.
(6) Under the scanning electron microscope, the clear dentine tubules in the resorption lacuna, the shallow, unclear resorption lacuna with deposition of the hard tissue and the various steps between them were observed.
(7) Localised tumour forms present either in the form of large polycyclic lacunae, sometimes invaginated or as vast ulcerations with irregular nodular margin, or as due to parietal infiltration and exoluminal development of the tumour mass and neighbouring adenopathy.
(8) The resorbant organ, rich in odontoclasts, cementoblasts, fibroblasts, and macrophages, formed prominent resorption lacunae in root dentin.
(9) Signs of osteolysis, such as enlarged osteocyte lacunae surrounded by a metachromatic zone in toluidine blue stained sections, and confluence of osteocyte lacunae in microradiographs, were compared with the fluorochrome labelling pattern.
(10) These had networks which formed the floor of each stomata and the roof of each lacunae.
(11) Besides greater detailization of the prevailing diameters of the pores, the method of poremetry allows the information to be obtained concerning the distribution of not only sizes of central canals of osteons but also smaller pores characterizing the system of lacunae of osteocytes and canals connecting them.
(12) Osteocyte viability within the femoral head was assessed by counting empty osteocyte lacunae in five random high-power fields of hematoxylin- and eosin-stained sections.
(13) Lipohyalinosis, initially referred to as the underlying pathologic vascular lesion specific for lacunae, is found most commonly in a subset of patients with severe hypertension associated with multilacunar dementia.
(14) These areas were characterized by a matrix of amorphous blue ground substance with lacunae that contained enlarged and slightly atypical cells.
(15) The condition was diagnosed by biopsy of a cranial bone lacuna.
(16) When ascorbic acid is added to the hormone-supplemented medium, differentiating chondrocytes organize their matrix leading to a cartilage-like structure with hypertrophic chondrocytes embedded in lacunae.
(17) The occlusion of arterioles underneath the site suggests that circulation through the lacunae at this stage is indirect.
(18) The second most common cause of dementia, cerebrovascular disease, produces dementia only when there is destruction of brain tissue, as in individuals who have multiple strokes or who have hypertensive vascular disease leading to multiple lacunae.
(19) Macrophages and giant cells did not form pits or resorption lacunae on the bone substrates as osteoclasts did.
(20) These MNC express an osteoclast phenotype and form resorption lacunae on calcified matrices.
Lacunar
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or having, lacunae; as, a lacunar circulation.
(n.) The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels.
(n.) One of the sunken panels in such a ceiling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lacunar infarcts were seen in 21% (37) of the patients with arterial infarcts.
(2) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
(3) The eroded and now enlarged lacunar surfaces were lined by newly formed bone and osteoblasts.
(4) These two cases demonstrate that it is not necessary to postulate transient occlusion of the middle cerebral artery as an essential mechanism for progressive lacunar infarction.
(5) In a consecutive series of 515 first-ever strokes in a community-based study of stroke that combined prompt clinical assessment by a study neurologist with a high rate of confirmed pathologic diagnosis, 108 cases (21%) had a lacunar syndrome.
(6) The clinical efficacy and safety of cefixime (CFIX), a new oral cephalosporin, were compared with those of cefroxadine (CXD) in patients suffering from acute lacunar tonsillitis in a double blind study.
(7) Small, deep cerebral infarcts had many of the epidemiological characteristics of other cerebral infarcts but there was a slightly higher frequency of hypertension, significantly lower frequency of a cardiac embolic source, and significantly better survival in patients with lacunar infarction than in those with nonlacunar infarction.
(8) Clinical syndromes, caused by lacunar lesions located either in the supratentorial or in the infratentorial structures, such as pure motor hemiparesis and ataxic hemiparesis were also discussed.
(9) More striking signal abnormalities consisted of symmetrical areas of hyperintensity lateral to the posterior horns in two 24 year old patients and of extensive white matter damage with lacunar infarcts in a 59 year old woman.
(10) It has been recognized that small intracerebral hemorrhage not uncommonly produced lacunar syndromes.
(11) The shaking limb should be included in the group of lacunar syndromes.
(12) In every patient, computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging or both showed a lacunar infarct that was secondary to the occlusion of a terminal vessel affected by endarteritis and was most commonly associated with cysticerci in the suprasellar cistern.
(13) Twenty-two patients with clinical signs and symptoms compatible with lacunar transient ischemic attack or stroke of varying chronicity were evaluated with MR imaging.
(14) It was assumed that the observers, in their assessments of the scans, would somehow let their ratings of the likelihood of a lacunar infarction in or near the internal capsule be subject to the accompanying information.
(15) MRI was more sensitive than CT for detecting cerebral infarction, and T2-weighted spin echo pulse sequence was most sensitive in the diagnosis of cerebral infarction except some lacunar infarctions and some cortical and subcortical infarctions.
(16) Six forms of vascular dementia have been described: multi-infarct dementia, lacunar dementia, Binswanger's subcortical encephalopathy, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, white-matter lesions associated with dementias, and single-infarct dementia.
(17) Patients with lacunar infarction should therefore be evaluated for other causes of stroke that may be treatable.
(18) These results indicate that CCA blood flow may reflect brain function in patients with multiple lacunar infarctions.
(19) A case is presented, of a child aged 2.8 years with tumor-like formations in the parietal and the frontal bones, showing lacunar lesions on the radiography of the skull.
(20) The right ovary and the medulla of the left ovary failed to show the lacunar aspect characteristic in the ovo study.