(n.) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.
(n.) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.
(n.) A twin crystal.
Example Sentences:
(1) These measures were compared with a well-documented generic questionnaire, the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), and a similarly well-documented mood scale, the Mood Adjective Check List (MACL).
(2) Self-rated pain sensation differed 36% between responders and nonresponders, and the pain measures of all pain patients correlated with total mood disturbance on the MACL and with its dimensions for depression and fatigue.
(3) GFS, STAI-Trait, and MACL discriminated levels of general fearfulness, anxiety and mood fluctuations that can impact on dental fear.
(4) Small changes in subjective mood (MACL) were found.
(5) A modified form of the Nowlis Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL, Nowlis, 1965, 1970) and a discomfort measure were used in assessing through recall the affective course predicted by the theory.
(6) The Mood Adjective Check List (MACL), consisting of 71 mood-associated adjectives and measuring 6 bipolar aspects of mood, was used.
(7) Two self-assessment questionnaires: the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP part 1) and the Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL) were answered by the patients 6 and 12 months after fracture and compared with functional status (ADL, and walking ability) 4 months after fracture.
(8) The Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and a general Geer Fear Scale (GFS) were filled out by all subjects, while 80 patients with highest dental fear scores were also tested before and after dental fear treatment with the following scales; a Getz Dental Belief Survey (DBS), Dental Fear Survey (DFS), and a Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL).
(9) These concerned disease activity (C-reactive protein, Lansbury articular index), physical joint function (Keitel index), mood (Mood Adjective Check List, MACL), and overall health (Sickness Impact Profile).
(10) John MacL (@Celticsleftwing) @ianmccourt "anyone out there ?"
(11) Pre-operatively, patients were given a neuropsychological screening evaluation, the Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL), the Zung Depression Scale, the Anxiety Inventory Scale, and the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ).
(12) Participants responded twice to a Mood Adjective Check List (MACL) and the Stroop Color-Word Test.
(13) The lowest value of explained variance was noted for MACL, and the highest for C-reactive protein.
(14) Both responder (n = 23) and nonresponder (n = 31) pain patients demonstrated extensively worse physical and psychosocial function on the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) and worse self-rated mood disturbance on the Mood Adjective Check List (MACL) than a control population sample.
(15) Normotensives and hypertensives on drug or placebo did not differ on MACL and Stroop scores.
Macule
Definition:
(n.) A spot.
(n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle.
(v.) To blur; especially (Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three types of lesions were observed: red plaques, pityriasis versicolor (PV)-like macules and plane warts.
(2) The case also showed characteristic palmar melanotic macules.
(3) We report the clinical features, electrophysiologic findings, and dapsone and isoniazid excretion studies in three young people who ingested excessive amounts (2-4 times the prescribed dose) of dapsone for hypopigmented macules and who developed, subacutely, progressive motor neuropathy a few months later.
(4) Nodular lesions were found in three patients, who did not have macules.
(5) A 44-year-old woman was diagnosed as having unilateral multiple progradient pigmented macules and papules of the upper extremity and adjacent part of the back.
(6) The lesions developed as solitary, slowly extending, erythematous macules and plaques, usually occurring on the extremities or the shoulders in adolescents or adults.
(7) An asymptomatic macule or patch may be the first recognizable feature.
(8) We report a case of a 10-month-old male infant with GM1 type 1 gangliosidosis who also had hyperpigmented macules and patches.
(9) In this group, flat melanotic macules around the eyes were located on the opposite parts of the upper and lower eyelids.
(10) Hair cell polarization patterns were investigated on the sensory macule of the sacculus and lagena of the lake whitefish.
(11) Histological examination using serial sections were performed on 47 cases and showed evidence of dermal melanocytosis in 40 cases (85%) consisting of 33 (70%) without clinically detectable macules and 7 (15%) with obvious pigmented macules.
(12) In some HIV-infected patients the cause of the macules might relate to the administration of zidovudine and antifungal or antibacterial drugs.
(13) The skin lesions that are often seen are hypopigmented circular macules, measuring approximately 0.5 cm in diameter.
(14) This disease, which affects children and teenagers, males as well as females, is characterized by pigmented macules 5-25 mm in diameter, affecting the neck, the trunk and the limbs.
(16) Generalized discrete hypopigmented macules forming a camouflage pattern appeared on the skin of a man.
(17) A hypopigmented macule on her face along with neuroimaging studies suggested an inflammatory process.
(18) Photoactivated psoralens were studied in sixty cases of tuberculoid leprosy for the repigmentation of hypopigmented macules.
(19) This article describes the light and electron microscopic studies from a macule and the surrounding lightly hyperpigmented skin of a patient with the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome.
(20) Pigmented macules and plaques in the oral cavity, representing the radial growth phase of tumors, often go unrecognized for months or years before tumor invasion.