(a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(2) Because each linkage project is different, the modular nature of the software allows for better control of the programming process and development of unique strategies.
(3) 1.--Craneo-encephalic traumatisms with loss of consciousness, Feeding with a combination of parenteral nutrition and modular enteral nutrition for 7 days.
(4) A low-cost modular compact personal computer-based system for surface precordial mapping (SPM) developed by the authors was used to detect rejection periods, documented by endomyocardial biopsy (EB), in heart transplant patients on cyclosporine A therapy.
(5) The divergence of the cytochrome b gene is modular: various parts of the gene have changed with a different mode and tempo of evolution.
(6) (3) Full-time and part-time programs must be developed, possibly using a modular format.
(7) A general concept is applied to laboratory scale reactors as well as to large scale production facilities consisting of many unit operations with a hierarchical and highly modular structure.
(8) We have designed, from macronutrient and micronutrient modules, modular tube feeding diets that can vary according to patient needs.
(9) The increase in total medullary mass resulted from diffuse and multifocal modular proliferations of adrenal medullary cells primarily within the head and body regions of the glands.
(10) A deduced amino acid sequence of NvTN.1 showed a modular structure unique to tenascin characterized by epidermal growth factor-like and fibronectin type III repeats.
(11) Among these are manufacturing processes that adversely affect the wear-resistance of polyethylene (such as heat treatments to the articular surface or gamma irradiation used for sterilization), tibio-femoral articular geometry, polyethylene thickness, knee alignment, femoral-component-bearing surface material, modularity of the tibial inserts and tibial trays, and quality of the polyethylene itself.
(12) These modular courses, first implemented in 1982, involve students in a series of internal (college) assessments and two external (national) examinations.
(13) Such standardization ensures accurate interpretation of the modular enteral formula order by the enteral nutrition aide.
(14) Studies of output connections from the STS also reveal a modular anatomical organization of repeating 3-5 mm patches connected to the parietal cortex, an area thought to be involved in spatial awareness and in the control of attention.
(15) The integrated, associative view of number processing is supported by the dependence of modular views on abstract codes and other conceptual inadequacies, evidence for integrated associative networks in calculation tasks, acalculia phenomena, shortcomings in modular architectures for number-processing dissociations, close ties between semantic and verbal aspects of numbers, and continuities between number and nonnumber processing.
(16) The program is written in C, which facilitates transportability and modularity.
(17) Our analysis suggests that enhancers are composed of a modular arrangement of short conserved sequence motifs and that enhancer strength is correlated with the redundancy of these motifs.
(18) A similar 36-home scheme of RSH+P's modular flats for discount rent has also been ordered by Newham council in east London.
(19) NACI's unique modular form design facilitates thorough data collection, even for the most complex treatment scenarios.
(20) A modular gamma ray camera is described that gives useful image information over its entire crystal face.
Nodular
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only seven films (or 0.7 percent of the entire cohort) showed nodular or rounded opacities of the type typically seen in uncomplicated silicosis.
(2) Chest X-ray revealed multiple nodular lesions in both lung fields.
(3) 64% of the patients without nodular metastases and 45% of the patients with histologically ascertained nodular metastases and 45% of the patients with histologically ascertained nodular metastases survived the 3-year interval.
(4) Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) developed in four patients 66 to 157 months following the diagnosis of nodular poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma (PDL-N).
(5) A total of 5.8% abnormalities were found including nodular disease, thyroiditis, Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, simple goiter, and iatrogenic hyperthyroidism.
(6) In particular, IgG and alpha 1-AT were accumulated in the glomeruli of patients with the nodular type of this disease.
(7) Chronic liver lesions in high-dose rats were cirrhosis with megalocytosis, mild fibrosis, nodular hepatocellular hyperplasia, and hyperplasia of bile ductules.
(8) Thyroglobulins (Tg) 27S and 19S and their hormonal content were determined in normal (N = 6), paranodular (N = 4) and hypofunctioning nodular (N = 8) human thyroid tissues.
(9) The authors have studied the longest and the shortest nuclear axes, the ratio between nuclear axes, the nuclear areas and the mitotic indices in melanocytic tumors and have noted progressive changes of the values in superficial spreading and in nodular melanoma as compared to nevi.
(10) In this five-year prospective evaluation we performed fine-needle biopsy in 618 euthyroid patients with nodular thyroid enlargement, 86% of whom also underwent radionuclide scans and 55% of whom underwent ultrasound scans.
(11) Included in the latter are a number of nonspecific papular and nodular lesions generally called "leukemids."
(12) Of 249 patients with nipple discharge, breast nodularity and duct ectasia was the cause in 75 percent.
(13) Nodularity was favorable only because 71% of nodular and nodular-diffuse cases were LCCL, while the majority of diffuse cases were LNCCL.
(14) The other tumor was a small corticomedullary stromal luteoma with bilateral hyperthecosis and nodular hilus cell hyperplasia.
(15) Binding of dye metabolites to cytosolic proteins was decreased by 40% at nodular and post-nodular stages compared to controls.
(16) At autopsy the cauda equina showed multiple nodular lesions with morphology comparable to the biopsy.
(17) Nodular sclerosis or mixed cellularity histologic types of Hodgkin disease were present in all but one of the patients with ITP and Hodgkin disease, and males constituted 65% of cases.
(18) Nodular lymphomas and the majority of lymphocytic lymphomas showed B cell characteristics, whereas only 6 out of 23 with diffuse pattern were B.
(19) It seems that Pfeiffer-Weber-Christian disease and nodular panniculitis with liquefaction are varying expressions of the same disease entity.
(20) Gliomas were hypodense to isodense on precontrast scans and enhanced in a nodular and a ring fashion.