(n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.
(n.) The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.
(n.) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
(n.) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
(n.) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
(n.) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
(n.) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
(n.) A swelling.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(2) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
(3) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
(4) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(5) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(6) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(7) Using an antibody to the nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR), we examined dendritic reticulum cells (DRCs) immunohistochemically in 62 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded lymph nodes from patients with reactive follicular hyperplasia or with various types of lymphoma.
(8) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(9) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(10) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(11) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(12) In thyroid cancer patients with pulmonary metastasis lymph nodes involvement was found in 62.6%.
(13) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
(14) The lymph node cells obtained from the animals 1 day after desensitization were unable to produce MIF in the presence of either antigen.
(15) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.
(16) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
(17) Thorough clinical investigation of the patient revealed sarcoid involvement of the skin, lungs, liver and lymph nodes and an extensive retroperitoneal surgically-verified lymph tumour.
(18) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(19) Maximal hyperpolarizations (approximately or equal to 24 mV for sinoatrial node; 26 mV for atrioventricular node) were reached about 500 msec after initiation of the vagal train.
(20) Additionally, lymph node cells were cultured under limiting dilution conditions, and the resultant clones here tested for cytotoxicity in the presence or absence of antibodies against Ly2 and LFA-1.
Onde
Definition:
(n.) Hatred; fury; envy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most striking finding was the increased percentage of CD4+CD29-, CD4+CD45R- and CD8+CD45R- cells and the decreased percentage of CD4-CDw29+ and CD8- CDw29+ subsets in MSa patients compared to OND and MSs populations.
(2) IL-2 receptor expression on cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytes (CSF-L) either unstimulated or MBP-stimulated was, however, significantly higher in both MS groups when compared to OND patients.
(3) Thirty nine MS patients (twenty four being "definite", according to McDonald and Halliday's classification), twenty nine patients with Other Neurological Diseases (OND), thirty six patients with Inflammatory diseases (ID) and forty healthy controls were tested.
(4) But the Office for Nuclear Development (OND) – an arm of the Department of Energy and Climate Change – said: "On this occasion ministers and officials have decided not to attend."
(5) Ond infection resulted in minimal cytopathic changes and intracytoplasmic inclusions.
(6) Interleukin-6 (IL-6) activity was measured in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients at different stages of human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus infection and of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) or other inflammatory (OID) and noninflammatory neurological diseases (OND).
(7) Serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 50 neurological patients (24 multiple sclerosis (MS), ten acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and 16 other neurological diseases (OND)) and ten controls were analyzed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for IgG subclass quantification and for the calculation of intrathecal synthesis (ITS).
(8) Smaller increases in sIL-2R levels occurred in OND patients compared to healthy subjects.
(9) Cerebrospinal fluids (CSF) and sera from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), other neurological diseases (ONDs) and healthy controls were tested for antibodies to myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) by several different assays.
(10) Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 221 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 85 patients with other neurological disorders (OND) was examined using a competitive radioimmunoassay for myelin basic protein (MBP) immunoreactivity.
(11) OND, a selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonist which is used as an anti-emetic during chemotherapy, was not found to be cytotoxic in the co-cultures at concentrations as high as 100 microM.
(12) Long-term peripheral blood mononuclear cell (MNC) cultures stimulated with interleukin 2 (IL-2) or IL-2 + phytohemagglutinin were established from 33 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, 9 with other neurological diseases (OND), and 24 normal controls (C).
(13) In view of these findings, we undertook a systematic search for autonomously proliferating cells in the spinal fluids of MS patients and those with other neurologic diseases (OND).
(14) It was used to examine lymphocytes from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and peripheral blood (PB) in 23 patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS), nine patients with other neurological diseases (OND), and eight healthy individuals.
(15) In MS patients, the prevalence of both organ-specific and non-organ-specific antibodies was significantly higher (p less than 0.05) than in OND patients.
(16) The CSF and serum levels of beta-2-m in MS patients were not significantly different from those of OND patients.
(17) A technique whereby immune complexes (ICs) are detected in the CSF and serum from their inhibitory effect on the agglutination of IgG-coated latex particles by rheumatoid factor (RF) has been applied to patients with the following neurological diseases: multiple sclerosis (MS), inflammatory diseases, extradural peripheral neuropathies (EPN), CNS tumors, dementia, and a control group of other neurological diseases (OND).
(18) In these experimental conditions, we have not been able to detect any fixation of CSF Ig from MS (or OND) patients to rat or human GalC+ oligodendrocytes.
(19) The results of this study revealed that intracellular R252 accumulated more slowly than either SH or Ond.
(20) These principles were used to evaluate the specificity and MHC restriction of 14 human MBP-reactive T cell lines selected from normal individuals and patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological diseases (OND).