(a.) Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.
Example Sentences:
(1) This technique has proved extremely useful in our hands and we suggest that it is a useful alternative in the management of coexistent lenticular and corneal opacification.
(2) Volumes of caudate, lenticular, and diencephalic structures are estimated, as are grey matter volumes in eight separate cortical regions.
(3) Lenticular lesions were present in all but two of the 18 patients with detailed ocular examination, whereas corneal opacities were found more often in type II than type I disease.
(4) Theoretically, a circular and lenticular implant is the most appropriate for implantation in the capsular bag.
(5) An immunohistochemical and electron microscopic study of this rare, benign, congenital tumor of lenticular anlage was performed.
(6) The lenticular nucleus was gradually shifted to a posterior location.
(7) Thirty-five cases of congenital lenticular dislocation seen in our Center since 1985 have been studied and analyzed clinically.
(8) basilaris, but in senile dementia ANC were much fewer in the thalamus and lenticular nuclei.
(9) The position, displacement and phase angle of the rotation axis of the ossicles was calculated based on the displacement and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head and lenticular process.
(10) The magnitude of the lenticular abnormality, but not the temporal lobe abnormality, was associated with age at first psychiatric contact; earlier onset was associated with larger lenticular nuclei.
(11) The human lens enzyme, the most stable of the species, maintained nearly 100% of its original activity up to 65 degrees C. Lenticular glutathione reductase activity did not reach zero levels in any of the seven species until a temperature of at least 80 degrees C was attained.
(12) The second had a scleral laceration without corneal or lenticular involvement.
(13) Here we show that the pattern of protein 4.1 variants changes during the terminal differentiation of erythroid and lenticular cells, with novel variants appearing in postmitotic cells.
(14) We studied the changes in central lenticular thickness in 40 porcine corneal specimens subjected to refractive modification on the "Hamburg Refractive Bench."
(15) The calculated deformation of brain presented a hematoma cavity elongated from anterior to posterior direction at the lenticular nucleus.
(16) A high incidence of lenticular and retinal degeneration was associated with megaloglobus.
(17) Adventitious effects, purposeful lenticular changes and adaptations in response to environmental forces are reviewed as possible sources of this astigmatic variability.
(18) Specific antigens were detected in the lens of the eyeball by immunofluorescence test with sera from mice in which ophthalmitis had been induced and the antigens were lenticular proteins with molecular weights (MW) of 15,000 (15K) to 25K, and 45K.
(19) A patient with a retained intra-ocular foreign body had a lens extraction for lenticular chalcosis.
(20) In general, the manufacturers' claims made in favour of the blended lenticular lenses were supported.
Lentiform
Definition:
(a.) Lenticular.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PET studies suggest dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex as a result of damage to the lentiform nuclei.
(2) This electrophysiological study analyzes the influence of the nucleus of the basal optic root (nBOR) of the avian accessory optic system on units within the lentiform nucleus (LM), which is the avian equivalent of the pretectal nucleus of the optic tract.
(3) Caudate atrophy was seen less commonly, and nonspecific focal and symmetric signal abnormalities from the caudate or lentiform nuclei were seen by magnetic resonance imaging in 3 out of 4 cases.
(4) Another case of obsessive behaviour as the consequence of lentiform nuclei lesions is reported.
(5) Phase-encoding artifacts at the level of the sylvian fissures caused increased noise, obscuring the brain iron in the lentiform nuclei with the TE of 120 msec.
(6) T1-weighted images revealed a slight symmetric hypointensity in the lentiform nuclei and thalamus.
(7) There was nerve cell loss and gliosis in the thalamus, lentiform nucleus, subthalamic nucleus, red nucleus, midbrain tegmentum, substantia nigra and locus coeruleus.
(8) Dystrophic calcification was present in the corticomedullary junction, lentiform nucleus of the basal ganglia, corticomedullary junction, and dentate nucleus of the cerebellum.
(9) Obscuration of the lentiform nucleus was thought to be an important early sign of cerebral infarction, including the lentiform nucleus.
(10) Microdialysis probes were acutely implanted through indwelling cannulae positioned at several sites above the lentiform nuclei in the conscious primates, and the basal and potassium (100 mM) evoked amino acid levels were monitored for 3 h. These procedures were repeated at fresh sites within the lateral globus pallidus following the induction of parkinsonism with MPTP.
(11) One patient with AIDS, examined with CT only, had low density in the lentiform nucleus.
(12) Magnetic resonance also demonstrated signal aberrations in the lentiform nuclei and surrounding white matter consistent with iron storage or disordered myelination.
(13) The severity of chorea correlated significantly only with lentiform nucleus rCMRGlc.
(14) Three pretectal groups (the lentiform thalamic nucleus, the lentiform mesencephalic-pretectal complex and the geniculate pretectal nucleus) give rise to heavy, bilateral tectal projections.
(15) MRI of both cases demonstrated lesions with prolonged T1, prolonged T2 and partially shortened T2 in bilateral lentiform nuclei.
(16) The sharp transition to normal at the lentiform nucleus previously described on CT was present in only one of the four patients, but was observed in a different patient with cerebral lymphoma and no evidence of HSE and is thus concluded to be less specific than previously thought.
(17) in caudate nucleus, lentiform nucleus and upper mid-brain, which showed nerve cell loss in previous pathological studies.
(18) In the second case the lesion involved the subcortical and deep structures with destruction of the lentiform nucleus, anterior part of the internal capsule and part of the head of the caudate nucleus, and the clinical pattern resembled that of Wernicke aphasia.
(19) Erythrocytes develop in suspension from spherical through discoid to lentil-shaped (lentiform) cells, with a single rigorously specified microtubule bundle, the marginal band.
(20) Hematomas are usually spherical or ovoid within the abdomen, and lentiform within the pleural space or abdominal wall.