(n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form
(n.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf.
(n.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.
(n.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain.
(n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
(2) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
(3) The authors discuss the results of the diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the right hepatic lobe which were consequent upon ischemic necrosis; they were encountered after cholecystectomy in 0.15% of cases.
(4) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
(5) Four had partial simple seizures with secondary generalisation and 3 had cortical excisions (2 frontal, 1 occipital lobe) surgery.
(6) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
(7) Although an unequivocal decision is not possible from existing knowledge, psychomotor or complex partial seizures of temporal lobe epilepsy would be the most tenable diagnosis.
(8) The hippocampus plays an essential role in the laying down of cognitive memories, the pathway to the frontal lobe being via the MD thalamus.
(9) Pulmonary pressure-flow (P-Q) curves from 24 lobes were obtained at baseline and after each intervention.
(10) Future research and clinical evaluations should focus on the components of the learning and memory processes when the ramifications of temporal lobe ablations on cognitive function are studied.
(11) The ventral tract ends almost entirely in the anterior lobe with the majority of fibres terminating contralateral to the side of the hemisection.
(12) Increased intensity of stereotypy was observed reaching a maximum 14 days after frontal lobe damage.
(13) Silicotuberculous bronchadenitis, conglomerate-cirrhotic lower-lobe silicotuberculosis and their complications (e.g.
(14) There were no differences in brain metabolic rates in lateral cortical areas (frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes).
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine if aspirin, in doses that elevate plasma salicylate concentrations to values reported in patients with salicylate-induced pulmonary edema, produce pulmonary vasoconstriction in a canine, isolated perfused left lower lung lobe (LLL) preparation.
(16) 99mTc-MAA accumulation was seen in the left lobe of the liver in a patient with occlusion of the IVC and common iliac veins.
(17) The immunocytochemical studies confirm the presence of ACTH in the intermediate lobes of all species studied so far, and stimulate the question of the mechanism of ACTH synthesis at this level.
(18) The correlation between two examiners in lobe size assessment was significant.
(19) Zebrin II-negative Purkinje cells are present in a continuous region encompassing the rostromedial part of the valvula, the lobus transitorius, lobe C1 and the ventral part of lobe C2, and in a small, lateral zone of the posterior part of the caudal lobe.
(20) Patients with temporal lobe abnormalities were significantly younger at the onset of panic disorder and had more panic attacks compared with patients with normal MRI scans (p less than .05).
Lobular
Definition:
(a.) Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(3) The 68.04% of all tumors have resulted invasive ductal carcinoma (NOS) the 9.08% lobular carcinoma.
(4) Of the 4 grades of differentiation, the less differentiated Grade III and IV tumors showed significantly lower levels of estrogen and progesterone receptors in infiltrating ductal and lobular carcinoma (P less than 0.001).
(5) This paper describes immunostaining of consecutive sections from 15 cases of fibrocystic change of the breast (including 2 examples of intraductal papilloma), 4 ductal carcinomas-in-situ and 17 invasive carcinomas (4 tubular, 1 papillary, 2 lobular and 10 infiltrating ductal, NOS) with antisera to components of the basement membrane (BM), type IV collagen and laminin, and with the muscle antibodies actin and muscle-specific actin.
(6) Histopathological examination of the nodules revealed features typical for SFNN: lobular panniculitis with fat necrosis and radiating needle-shaped clefts within multinucleated histiocytes.
(7) c-erbB-2 was overexpressed in ductal rather than lobular tumours.
(8) No dendritic spikes occur in the input fan of the lobular giant movement detector (LGMD) neurone.
(9) Histologic subtypes were infiltrating ductal (63 of 86), infiltrating lobular (14 of 86), and other infiltrating (9 of 86).
(10) One tumor could not be classified as ductal or lobular by light microscopic examination alone.
(11) Immunostaining consistent with c-erbB-2 overexpression was found in 10 out of 50 cases of infiltrating ductal carcinoma (NOS), one of 24 infiltrating lobular carcinomas and one of seven medullary carcinomas only.
(12) In all cases, HRCT scans allowed early lobular shape anomalies to be detected and secondary pulmonary lobular lesions to be correlated with disease evolution.
(13) The risk of developing a contralateral breast cancer is influenced by the age of the patient, the presence of in situ disease, lobular histology of this new lesion, multicentricity, exposure to certain types of ionizing irradiation, and, possibly, family history of breast cancer.
(14) In reference to a series of 36 in situ breast carcinomas, the current therapeutic possibilities are considered: 8 lobular carcinomas in situ (LCIS) and 28 ductal carcinomas in situ (DCIS) were diagnosed between January 1985 and July 1988.
(15) A characteristic histopathologic picture consisting of mild to moderate intrahepatocytic cholestasis, lobular inflammatory infiltrate with some eosinophils, and Kupffer cell hyperplasia was found in all cases.
(16) The influx into the S compartment revealed a maximum in a lobular zone not immediately adjacent to the portal tract, with a decrease towards the perivenous and periportal area of the lobule.
(17) The upper outer quadrant, however, usually contained the largest proportion of lobular units, which may relate to the higher incidence of lobular carcinoma found in this quadrant.
(18) These included medullary, mucoid, tubular, cribriform and lobular invasive cancers, and non-invasive cancers.
(19) Multicentricity with intraductal and lobular carcinoma in situ was frequently observed.
(20) Distribution of fibronectin, laminin, and collagens type I, III, IV, and V in the lobular regions of regenerating rat liver was studied by indirect immunofluorescence.