(n.) A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(3) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(4) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(5) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(6) This scintigraphic localization of osteomyelitis seldom has been reported.
(7) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(8) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(9) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(10) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(11) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(12) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(13) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
(14) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(15) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
(16) Immunofluorescence analysis of Pr-28 antigen showed that the antigen was localized mainly in perinuclear cytoplasm.
(17) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(18) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(19) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(20) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
Locule
Definition:
(n.) A little hollow; a loculus.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes how pulsed ultrasound applied through a combined transducer-aspirator aids in the location and complete aspiration of pleural exudates, particularly loculated ones, which may be difficult to assess fully using clinical techniques alone.
(2) The frequent occurrence of adhesive and obliterative pericarditis with loculated effusions suggests the need for pericardiectomy rather than pericardiocentesis in the patient with rheumatoid arthritis and symptomatic pericardial involvement.
(3) This pattern, which we call "loculated fluid," consists of a well-demarcated area of hyperfluorescence that appears to represent pooling of fluorescein in a compartmentalized space anterior to the choroidal neovascular leakage.
(4) PCD is a safe and effective method for drainage of loculated empyemas as the initial procedure or after STT has failed.
(5) The spatial distribution of transcripts in the anther wall was confined to that region of the anther that surrounds the locule.
(6) We herein reported a case of delayed localized right atrial tamponade caused by loculated intrapericardial hematoma 26 days after aortic valve replacement, which was recognized immediately by transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography.
(7) In most of the patients, by the third or fourth treatment, they were found to have developed loculated restricted areas with minimal distribution of the agents.
(8) If the pH is less than 7.30, loculation of the pleural space may occur regardless of whether the effusion fulfills the criteria for empyema.
(9) Sonography allows easy identification of pleural fluid and loculation and differentiation from pleural masses; CT is best for characterizing location and composition of pleural masses; MR is somewhat limited, but is best for imaging superior sulcus carcinoma.
(10) All four loculated effusions required drainage with a chest tube for resolution.
(11) Digital exploration of the cavity is important for eliminating any loculations and avoiding complications after the drainage procedure.
(12) This technique was found to be useful in several ways: (1) differentiation of cystic, solid, and complex masses, which is not usually possible with routine roentgenographic evaluation; (2) delineation of free fluid collections from those that are loculated or contained within masses; (3) measurement of the size of both normal and abnormal structures; and (4) confirmation of the abnormal position or absence of organs.
(13) The authors report a case of localised compression of the right atrium due to a loculated intrapericardial haematoma after open heart surgery.
(14) The radiographic appearance of intramural bowel gas can be simulated by extraserosal gas bubbles loculated within adhesions.
(15) CT features included diffuse, circumferential pleural thickening, multiple pleural fluid locules and mediastinal adenopathy.
(16) In 44 cases we found intraabdominal abscesses, in 5 liver cysts with internal bleeding, in 5 postoperative lymphatic cysts, and in 2 cases loculated pleural empyemas.
(17) A case of false-positive liver scan due to loculated ascites is presented in which these maneuvers failed to resolve the problem.
(18) The most common electron microscopic finding was reduplication of the basement membrane with loculated connective tissue.
(19) Locules or cavities within the freeze-dried droplets are thought to be due to the entrapment of air when droplets coalesce.
(20) He was subsequently discovered to have a loculated pleural effusion and pericardial effusion associated with chronic pancreatitis.