(n.) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.
(n.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(4) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(5) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(6) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(7) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(8) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
(9) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(10) Pleural or subpleural lesions were found in all cases.
(11) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(12) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(13) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(14) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(15) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(16) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(17) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
(18) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(19) In the present study, the expression of type IV collagen associated with the basal membrane (BM) was studied histochemically (indirect immunoperoxidase-antiperoxidase) in cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (diagnosed using in situ DNA hybridization) of different grades.
(20) Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described.
Polypoid
Definition:
(a.) Like a polyp; having the nature of a polyp, but lacking the tentacles or other parts.
(a.) Resembling a polypus in appearance; having a character like that of a polypus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopic papillotomy was performed which resulted in a polypoid tumour delivering itself into the wound followed by a free flow of bile.
(2) The frequency of polypoid cystitis increased with increasing time of catheter treatment and reached its peak by three months.
(3) Laryngoscopy reveals a polypoid mass arising from the ventricle.
(4) The diagnosis was made by bronchoscopic removal of a polypoid lesion that was a direct extension of tumor through the trachea.
(5) The autopsy showed an irregular polypoid mass that occupied the entire right and left atrium, hepatocarcinoma was confirmed by histologic studies.
(6) 26 polyps contained invasive carcinoma and 2 were classified as polypoid adenocarcinomas.
(7) This study aims to assess the indications for histological examination of polypoid lesions removed from the nose.
(8) Gross pathologic examination revealed polypoid intramural growths ranging from 2.5 to 7.0 cm in greatest dimension.
(9) Grossly, the majority of the tumor showed dark reddish polypoid masses with the surface bled easily.
(10) Bronchofiberscopic examination revealed a polypoid tumor almost completely obstructing the right main bronchus.
(11) The resected polypoid lesion measured 4.5 x 3.0 cm.
(12) Squamous cell carcinoma was consistently present in the base of the polypoid lesions in all four cases and was also intermingled with spindle-shaped sarcomatous cells in two cases.
(13) Ensuring that the patient was in a symptom-free interval, the differential diagnosis of the opacified paranasal sinus and patients with gross polypoid disease created the most difficulty in interpretation.
(14) A striking feature is the complexity of the polypoidal lesions.
(15) Attention is paid to the vegetating polypoid cancers of the cardio-esophageal zone, being with a vast dissemination, before manifesting a typical clinical symptomatology.
(16) To our knowledge this is the first reported case of resection of a Brunner gland adenoma with endoscopy, and we hope to encourage the use of this technique for removal of polypoid lesions of the upper gastrointestinal tract.
(17) However, even patients with polypoid sinusitis gained marked long-term relief of nasal obstruction and other symptoms.
(18) Anal papillae, polypoid lesions formed by hyperplasia of connective tissue in the vicinity of the anal columns, are usually small and asymptomatic.
(19) Histologic findings of the biopsy specimens from the polypoid lesions showed tubular adenoma, with or without lymphoid hyperplasia, in nine (50 percent), but only lymphoid hyperplasia in the other nine patients.
(20) Sialomucins were often predominant in the mucosa adjacent to large adenomas, but N+ type mucosa was also seen near minute adenomas and hyperplastic polyps and remote from polypoid lesions.