(n.) A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of 77 cases of molluscum contagiosum implicates folliclular neogenesis as a primary histogenetic determinant.
(2) We analyzed data on molluscum contagiosum infection in the United States from two sources: the National Disease and Therapeutic Index Survey of private patients, collected during 1966-1983; and two sexually transmitted disease clinics, collected during 1977-1981.
(3) Widespread molluscum contagiosum is being seen with increasing frequency in patients who have been exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus, and examination of biopsy specimens to rule out atypical fungal infection is mandatory.
(4) A 43-year-old homosexual man with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) developed cutaneous molluscum contagiosum-like lesions on face, ears, neck, hands and feet.
(5) One case of molluscum contagiosum of the lid, which has been followed by follicular conjunctivitis and superficial punctate keratitis, has enabled us to compare the ultrastructure of the skin tumor and of the conjunctival lesion.
(6) In a comparative study, there was a higher incidence of anticellular IgM antibodies to normal human epidermis and fibrillar anticellular IgM antibodies in molluscum contagiosum than in warts of psoriasis.
(7) The antibody can be used with standard immunohistochemical methods to identify molluscum contagiosuminfection in inflamed and distorted tissue specimens.
(8) So it is necessary to perform skin biopsy in HIV seropositive patients with skin lesions resembling molluscum contagiosum, to diagnose mycotic infections, and especially cryptococcosis.
(9) Two patients with AIDS presented with eyelid molluscum contagiosum.
(10) This functional defect may impair host defense and account for the chronic molluscum contagiosum infection present in this patient.
(11) A retrospective casenote review was performed on patients attending a department of genitourinary medicine (GUM) who had been diagnosed as having molluscum.
(12) We report on the hardly known development of molluscum contagiosum in a cystically dilated follicular infundibulum.
(13) Restriction endonuclease analysis of molluscum contagiosum virus DNA revealed two subtypes.
(14) A hemophiliac man who tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus presented with facial lesions resembling molluscum contagiosum as the initial manifestation of systemic cryptococcal infection.
(15) Seven human immunodeficiency virus-(HIV) positive patients with biopsy proved extensive facial molluscum contagiosum were treated with trichloroacetic acid peels.
(16) The genomes (188 kbp) of the prototype Molluscum contagiosum virus type 1 (MCV-1) and a variant strain (MCV-1v) were characterized by construction of the physical maps of the viral DNA for the restriction enzymes BamHI, ClaI, EcoRI, and HindIII using a defined gene library harboring the DNA sequences of the MCV-1 genome and by DNA-DNA hybridizations.
(17) In view of these findings it is advisable that adults with perigenital molluscum contagiosum be screened for other STD and that their sexual partners be contact-traced.
(18) Molluscum contagiosum spread by sexual contact may be mistaken for other venereal diseases.
(19) Molluscum contagiosum in a venereal distribution (MCV) was identified as an incidental finding in 14 patients in a women's outpatient clinic at a general hospital.
(20) Three in situ hybridization protocols have been modified and used to comparatively examine formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue for the presence of molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) DNA.
Pulp
Definition:
(n.) A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.
(n.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.
(n.) The soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of a grape.
(n.) The exterior part of a coffee berry.
(n.) The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.
(v. t.) To reduce to pulp.
(v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(2) It is suggested that the reduction in the amount of white pulp present could explain at least in part the reduced ability of splenotic tissue to deal with infection.
(3) Some pulp irritation can occur if deep restorations are not placed over a protective film.
(4) Blood flow changes in the dental pulp of lower canine teeth of mature cats and incisors of mature rats were investigated with simultaneous laser Doppler flowmetry and local 125I-clearance (wash-out) during electrical sympathetic stimulation, efferent stimulation of n. alveolaris inferior (IAN) (cats) and i.a.
(5) The tooth also gave a positive response to pulp-testing procedures, even though no new tissue could be demonstrated histologically.
(6) We present our results with 8 free transfers of the toe pulp and demonstrate the successful restoration of a well-padded and sensitive fingertip.
(7) SP injection into the dental pulp and lip induced dye leakage.
(8) The root canal anatomy of 149 mandibular second molars was studied using a technique in which the pulp was removed, the canal space filled with black ink and the roots demineralized and made transparent.
(9) Surgical sympathectomy significantly reduced the NA content in the pulp by 76%.
(10) Monkey pulps were homogenized in a Triton tris solution.
(11) The fate, proliferation, and developmental potentialities of cell suspensions made from white pulp containing large germinal centers have been studied in the mouse by transfer of cells labeled with thymidine-(3)H to lethally irradiated, syngeneic recipients.
(12) While exposure of root surface dentin alone (negative control) produced no alterations, grinding the surface (positive control) caused noticeable changes in dentin, odontoblasts, and pulp.
(13) Control procedures were employed to assure that the electrical stimuli reached only tooth pulp fibers but no extrapulpal sensory fibers.
(14) The red pulp was characterized by increased densities of cells in pulp cords demonstrating metalophilia, hydrolytic enzyme activity, PAS positivity and hemosiderin.
(15) He reminds also of the possibility of the danger of iatrogenic damage for the dental pulp.
(16) Surprisingly, SP and CGRP caused weak albumin leakage in the pulp, while the opposite is true in high compliance tissues, such as muscles, suggesting that the vessels in a low compliance environment, such as the pulp, may not be as permeable in response to selected mediators.
(17) Primary cultures from human dental pulp were produced in Leighton tubes in the compound nutritive medium of Eagle consisting of calf serum, ascorbic acid, penicillin and streptomycin.
(18) This layer had lysyl-oxidase (EC 1.4.3.13) activity, 4-11 times higher than either the sub-odontoblast layer or central pulp tissue, and similar to that in chick aorta, one of the tissues richest in such activity.
(19) Informed understanding of the likely progressive development of index-middle finger scissoring, pronation of the index ray with spontaneous broadening of the pulp, and the deteriorating use of an existing hypoplastic thumb may make the decision for ablation easier for parents.
(20) Judged radiographically, partial obliteration (pulp chamber not discernible, root canal markedly narrowed but clearly visible) had occurred in 44 teeth (36%).