(1) Muckle-Wells syndrome is characterized by recurrent episodes of urticaria, fever, polyarthralgia, deafness and secondary amyloid (AA type), familial type with autosome dominant features; few cases have been described.
(2) This patient is likely to represent a variant of the Muckle-Wells syndrome (chronic relapsing urticaria, fever, arthralgia, deafness and renal amyloidosis).
(3) The Muckle and Well's syndrome corresponding to a transmission of the autosomic dominant type, combines bouts of urticaria, episodes of arthralgias to a shrinking of the ear and a sensory deafness.
(4) A case of hereditary AA amyloidosis with Muckle-Wells syndrome is described.
(5) The triad of renal amyloidosis, inner-ear deafness and recurrent urticaria is characteristic of Muckle-Wells syndrome, which has a hereditary basis.
(6) Like a rich country fruit cake, Kidnapped is seasoned throughout with handfuls of dialect words, "ain" (one), "bairn" (child), "blae" (cheerless), "chield" (fellow), "drammach" (raw oatmeal), "fash" (bother), "muckle" (big), "siller" (money), "unco" (extremely) , "wheesht!"
(7) Typical of the syndrome described by Muckle and Wells is a combination of progressive perceptive deafness appearing at various ages in a family, but usually at the same age in the same family, arthralgia, urticarious eruption and renal amyloidosis.
(8) At a consultation with a 31-year-old man, motivated by painful episodes of joint pain that had started considerably earlier, a familial disease entity was discovered that included the three clinical signs of the Muckle and Wells syndrome : urticarial eruption, intermittent pain in the limbs originating in the joints, and bilateral deafness of perception.
(9) It was presumably a complication of long-term immunosuppression and not of the Muckle-Wells syndrome.
Suckle
Definition:
(n.) A teat.
(v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
(v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(2) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(3) DNA from 9% (47 of 529) of the E. coli colonies tested hybridized with the ST probe, whereas only 5% (28 of 529) produced ST as measured by the suckling mouse bioassay.
(4) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(5) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(6) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(7) Reinstitution of suckling after removal of pups causes an immediate rise in PRL and GH.
(8) Insulin, which slightly but significantly, depressed the level in 40 day old rats, increased it in suckling ones, as does prednisolone.
(9) From these results, we conclude that opiate peptides are released in response to the suckling stimulus in the cynomolgus monkey and that they mediate the effects of suckling on PRL secretion in both gonadal-intact and agonadal cynomolgus monkeys.
(10) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
(11) The yield and viability of isolated hepatocytes from suckling rats were 18.1 X 10(7) cells per gram liver and 95%, respectively.
(12) Lipase level per unit wet tissue and total pancreatic levels increased from 2 to 35 d of age in suckling pigs (P less than .01).
(13) The effects of undernutrition during suckling on neurochemical and behavioral parameters were investigated in adult rats.
(14) Peculiarities of the central area EEG have been exhibited in all the age groups, and it has been assumed that the central parts of the cortex of a suckling infant are a kind of "window" into the subcortical parts.
(15) Adam Suckling, the corporate affairs director of News Corp Australia, said the provision should be considered alongside mandatory data retention and other security legislation that had passed the parliament in the past year.
(16) Strain G-K-LP showed higher pathogenicity for suckling mice than strain G-K-SP.
(17) Body weight was not affected by hormonal treatment, but the tails of the hypophysectomized sucklings were significantly lengthened by thyroxine alone, the effect being enhanced when growth hormone was also given.
(18) These findings demonstrate that the metabolism of the suckling neonate is directly related to longitudinal changes in the composition of maternal milk.
(19) Chylous ascites is a disorder visible as a white fluid in the peritoneal cavity of suckling mice.
(20) (ii) In young sucklings (10 days old), SC was virtually absent in both villus and crypt cells, but its concentration progressively increased in weanling rats and reached adult levels by day 40 postpartum.