(n.) A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.
(n.) An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.
(n.) A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(2) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
(3) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
(4) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(5) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(6) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(7) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(8) Protein composition was determined in mesenteric lymph chylomicrons from fat-fed rats.
(9) Using an antibody to the nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR), we examined dendritic reticulum cells (DRCs) immunohistochemically in 62 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded lymph nodes from patients with reactive follicular hyperplasia or with various types of lymphoma.
(10) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(11) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(12) During the development of Shvets' leukosis, the weight of spleen and lymph glands and their lymphocyte content change enormously while the number of plasmocytes rises exponentially.
(13) In thyroid cancer patients with pulmonary metastasis lymph nodes involvement was found in 62.6%.
(14) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
(15) The lymph node cells obtained from the animals 1 day after desensitization were unable to produce MIF in the presence of either antigen.
(16) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.
(17) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
(18) Thorough clinical investigation of the patient revealed sarcoid involvement of the skin, lungs, liver and lymph nodes and an extensive retroperitoneal surgically-verified lymph tumour.
(19) 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.
(20) Additionally, lymph node cells were cultured under limiting dilution conditions, and the resultant clones here tested for cytotoxicity in the presence or absence of antibodies against Ly2 and LFA-1.
Scrofula
Definition:
(n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical evaluation of these cases suggested the following: 1) The physician must keep in mind that cervical scrofula should be included in the differential diagnosis of any neck masses, and malignant neck tumors particularly should be differentiated from cervical scrofula.
(2) Twenty-five cases of scrofula were treated at our institution from 1973 to 1986.
(3) This study emphasizes the marked variability in clinical presentation of scrofula and the importance of surgical excisional biopsy for histologic diagnosis.
(4) This report reviews the history of scrofula and deals with specific diagnostic tests which are helpful in separating tuberculous adenitis from other masses found commonly in the neck.
(5) Because of the enormous number of infectious and neoplastic diseases acquired by the HIV positive population, the diagnosis of scrofula may be further delayed in some patients.
(6) This is the first description of dural scrofula in modern medical literature.
(7) In spite of modern treatment and public health measures, scrofula persists but is infrequently seen.
(8) People afflicted with scrofula – a swelling of the lymph nodes linked to tuberculosis – would queue up to receive the monarch’s healing touch.
(9) Therefore, to ensure the patient of the most beneficial therapy, the physician must always consider scrofula in the differential diagnosis of a neck mass, and particularly because of the increases incidence of intrapulmonary tuberculosis in AIDS patients, he must consider the possibility of HIV infection.
(10) Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis, or scrofula, remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge because it mimics other pathologic processes, and because of the inconsistent reliability of physical and laboratory findings.
(11) A patient is described in whom Mycobacterium bovis genitourinary tuberculosis occurred initially 25 years after childhood scrofula and then recurred 29 years later despite apparently successful therapy.
(12) Recommended therapy for cervical scrofula with packet formation is selective neck dissection followed by antituberculous chemotherapy, which can shorten the period of treatment.
(13) Response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to phytohemagglutinin (PHA) diminished in patients with scrofula.
(14) The effects of musk-moxa-string therapy on the immune system in man were investigated in 39 patients with scrofula.
(15) During the four years from 1987 to 1990, 5 cases of cervical scrofula with packet formation were treated with selective neck dissection followed by antituberculous chemotherapy at the ENT-department of Haibara General Hospital.
(16) Scrofula has been called "The Dangerous Masquerader" because of its propensity to mimic other diseases.
(17) 2) The treatment of cervical scrofula should be appropriate to the clinical stage diagnosed by CT or MRI.
(18) Immunological function and lymphocytic subsets of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBWC) from 39 patients with scrofula were investigated before and after treatment with musk-moxa-string therapy.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The practice of royal touching as a cure for scrofula began in the 11th century with King Edward the Confessor, pictured here with a leper.
(20) Scrofula has been mistaken for metastatic carcinoma, regional neoplasms, thyroglossal duct cysts, fungal disease, toxoplasmosis, lymphoma, osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, bacterial adenitis, and collagen vascular disease.