(a.) Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ligneous conjunctivitis occurred unilaterally in a 74-year-old man after pterygium excision and only involved the bulbar conjunctiva.
(2) Three possibilities are considered: the proper inflammatory lesions--granulomatous, lymphoplasmocitary and ligneous thyroiditis, the cystic formations circumscribed by the glandular tissue with inflammatory signs as well as the association of thyroid cancer with chronic thyroiditis--seldom reported in literature--upon which 2 observations have been made.
(3) A considerable number of agents have been proposed as causing ligneous conjunctivitis.
(4) Seventeen cases of ligneous conjunctivitis were studied.
(5) The treatment of ligneous conjunctivitis with Imuran has not previously been reported in the literature.
(6) Using immunohistochemical techniques, we studied ligneous conjunctival lesions from two patients.
(7) On the basis of his studies on Fabry's disease, the dyscephalic syndrome of François, ligneous conjunctivitis and macular dystrophy of the cornea, the author stresses the importance of heredity in ophthalmology.
(8) The origin and treatment of ligneous cellulitis are discussed.
(9) A case of ligneous conjunctivitis, which presented in the acute form and converted to a mixed form after several months is described.
(10) We report the association of ligneous conjunctivitis with middle-ear and tympanic membrane involvement in two children.
(11) The diagnosis of ligneous conjunctivitis was made by excisional biopsies in both.
(12) Ligneous conjunctivitis is a rare disease of unknown cause characterized by pseudomembranous, fibrous, woody, plaquelike deposits on the conjunctiva.
(13) On the basis of this family and previous reports, we believe that ligneous conjunctivitis is a genetic disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern and that genetic counseling should be offered to the parents of affected children.
(14) These findings support the hypothesis that ligneous conjunctivitis could be the result of a lowered resistance associated with a disturbance of wound healing.
(15) The diffused floor coverings on epoxide basis, paste "Pirolik" and some types of ligneous surfaces on the basis of carbamide-formaldehyde pitch, received unfavourable hygienic assessment.
(16) Ligneous conjunctivitis tends to occur more frequently in children.
(17) The cases of ligneous conjunctivitis published since 1964 are presented in a review of the literature.
(18) On the basis of his studies on Fabry's disease, the dyscephalic syndrome of François, the ligneous conjunctivitis and the macular dystrophy of the cornea the author stresses the importance of heredity in ophthalmology.
(19) Eye and ear specimens revealed histopathologic and ultrastructural findings consistent with ligneous conjunctivitis, characterized by an amorphous, eosinophilic material with acute and chronic nongranulomatous inflammation.
(20) The success of Intal therapy in this case supports the theory that mast cells are involved in the pathogenesis of ligneous conjunctivitis.
Woody
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
(a.) Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(2) In the 1990s Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, began a labour of love, gathering up all her father's papers and creating the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City.
(3) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(4) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
(5) Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, based on his 1994 film, gets six nominations.
(6) He raised $3.1m , and then explained the Kickstarter crowdfunding concept to Woody Allen, who apparently "won't stop talking" about it .
(7) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
(8) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
(9) In what was a golden night for the veterans, Martin Scorsese won best director for his 3D fantasy Hugo and Woody Allen took the screenplay prize for Midnight in Paris.
(10) In the autumn large amounts of a major storage protein accumulate in the woody stem of poplar trees.
(11) During the interview, I will see a flash of another mode from Keaton, on the subject of Woody Allen .
(12) The disorder appeared after an acute episode of tonsillitis, followed by non-pitting, woody hardness of the skin of the face, neck, shoulders and upper part of the trunk.
(13) To investigate an apparent decline of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium woodi, in the Simulium neavei group, weekly 12-hour biting catches on man were carried out for 13 months near Amani and compared with those obtained 22 years earlier.
(14) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
(15) Woody Allen's nakedly autobiographical film is the Oscar-winning sensation which put him on the map – and it's probably his best film, too.
(16) The second technique is an adaptive filter method of averaged cross-correlations, developed by Woody (1967), which deals with the variable latency problem.
(17) In May, more than 120 prominent international writers and artists, including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patti Smith, Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim, called on Sisi to release Naji in a letter sent by free speech organisation PEN America.
(18) For Beale – known as “Woody” to his friends – the barbershop trip is not just a quick in-and-out appointment.
(19) The restoration of This Land Is Your Land demonstrates the dichotomies of Woody Guthrie and the American patriotic left, which loves the land (the dream, even) but fights the system – only to be embraced by that system.
(20) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.