(a.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.
(a.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.
(n.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.
Example Sentences:
(1) In situ hybridization of sea urchin (Psammechinus miliaris, Lytechinus pictus and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) histone messenger RNA has been used to map complementary sequences on polytene chromosomes from Drosophila melanogaster.
(2) Elderly patients with persistent unexplained fever require a diagnostic evaluation that focuses on specific infections (eg, occult abdominal abscess, bacterial endocarditis, miliary tuberculosis), rheumatic disorders (eg, temporal arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa), and neoplasms (eg, lymphoma, nephroma).
(3) 62.4, 30.6 and 7.0 per cent of the children suffered from tuberculosis of the intrathoracic lymph nodes, primary tuberculosis and miliary tuberculosis, respectively.
(4) Two patients with non-miliary pulmonary tuberculosis developed a syndrome resembling adult respiratory distress following initiation of drug treatment.
(5) Post mortem revealed an aplasia of the thymus, hypoplasia of the lymph system, miliary tuberculous foci in the lymph nodes, liver and spleen.
(6) The high predominance of male patients among those with miliary tuberculosis in our study remains unexplained.
(7) Chest roentgenograms demonstrated bilateral nodules in seven patients, solitary nodules in four, and a miliary pattern progressing to nodules in one.
(8) Although the first unrecognized indication that short-course antimicrobial treatment of tuberculosis might be effective came in reports of tuberculous meningitis and miliary tuberculosis in children so treated by Lorber (1951 to 1956), the 1977 American Lung Association-American Thoracic Society recommendation for antimicrobial therapy of tuberculosis in adults still specified an 18-month course.
(9) Rarely BCG-vaccinated children suffered from miliary tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis and pleurisy.
(10) Chest x-ray examination revealed a miliary interstitial nodular pattern in both lung fields.
(11) Renal damage was evident following intravenous infection with either strain, although the mutant appeared to be less invasive; MY 1044 produced characteristic miliary, subcapsular lesions, while the mutant (MY 1049) produced large granulomas.
(12) The hemoglobin of Liophis miliaris has unusual properties.
(13) 67 patients with miliary TB diagnosed over a 15 year period (1973-1987) have been retrospectively studied.
(14) She was diagnosed to have miliary tuberculosis, and antituberculous drugs were administered.
(15) Fertilized ova of the worm were found in miliary peritoneal granulomata, and showed development up to the eight-cell stage.
(16) We report a fatal case of occult pulmonary embolism complicating bronchogenic carcinoma which presented with rapidly progressive pulmonary miliary shadows and respiratory failure.
(17) An acute miliary pulmonary tuberculosis with extensive cutaneous reaction to tuberculin then appeared.
(18) Three patients had miliary tuberculosis and one had no pulmonary lesion.
(19) The treatment course was directed at combatting miliary tuberculosis.
(20) Chest miliary tuberculosis is found in all their cases, and 3 of the 5 cases of the other authors.
Millet
Definition:
(n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with diabetes mellitus, the duration of wound treatment in use of the millet oil reduced by 16 days when compared to that in using the sea-buckthorn oil.
(2) Twenty-four wethers had ad libitum access to a total forage diet (pearl millet forage), water and trace mineralized salt.
(3) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
(4) The antibodies were tested against whole wheat gliadin and its alpha, beta, gamma, and omega subfractions, and the prolamins of rye, barley, oats, maize, millet, rice, and sorghum.
(5) F. napiforme and F. nygamai also may be important because of their association with the food grains millet and sorghum.
(6) Hays offered included two sorghum-sudan, four barley, four oat and two pearl millet.
(7) The Glasgow Boys went after this mood with a will and set up temporary homes among the red-tiled roofs of the rural east – Cockburnspath was by no means their only base – to prospect for scenes that would do justice to an imagination fired by their heroes Corot , Millet and Bastien-Lepage.
(8) Staple foodstuffs with a high buffer content (unmilled rice, unrefined wheat and a millet [ragi]) placed in the stomach after pyloric ligation are also protective, but those with a low buffer content (milled rice, tapioca, sorghum and maize) are not protective.
(9) The conventional wisdom is that trees compete with crops, but FMNR has increased millet harvests from 430kg to 750kg a hectare, according to World Vision, which supports 39,000 hectares (96,000 acres) of FMNR in Kaffrine.
(10) Stored and cooked samples of pearl millet (Pennesetum typhoides), which is regularly consumed as food by the Paharia tribe in the hilly regions of Santhal Pargana, Bihar State, India, that were harvested in January 1989 were analyzed for mold flora, natural occurrence of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, and incidence and levels of aflatoxin B1.
(11) A replicated 4 x 4 Latin square digestion trial was conducted to determine apparent nutrient digestibilities and N and energy balances for soft red winter wheat, Beagle 82 triticale, Florico triticale, and pearl millet using finishing pigs fitted with ileal T-cannulas.
(12) Another new nitrosamine, N-2-methylpropyl-N-methylacetonyl nitrosamine, was isolated in millet and wheat flour after similar treatment.
(13) It found they have lost much of their harvested crops of rice, maize, wheat and millet, and seeds for future planting, which are now buried under collapsed homes.
(14) Cross-reactivity between rice, wheat, corn, Japanese millet and Italian millet in Poaceae family were studied by absorption test, radioallergosorbent test (RAST), and RAST inhibition assay.
(15) Daily gains of steers were similar with both forages except in 1975 when those fed on pearl millet grew 19 per cent faster than those on Guinea grass.
(16) Accelerated natural lactic fermentation in mixtures of water and ground sorghum, millet and pigeon pea was obtained by gradual selection of lactic acid bacteria, through inoculum recycling.
(17) The author visited China in 1981 and 1984 and obtained data comparing the incidence of duodenal ulcer in the rice eating districts of the south with the incidence in the wheat, maize and millet eating areas of the north.
(18) Chemical nature and biological activity of miliacine that is contained in millet oil have been studied.
(19) Mixed culture fermentation of pearl millet flour with Saccharomyces diastaticus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus fermentum brought about an improvement in its biological utilisation in rats.
(20) Consumption of millet gruel was associated positively with EC, in a dose-response relationship.