(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.
Nodule
Definition:
(n.) A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(3) An umbilical nodule may be an early or late sign of metastasis from an internal location.
(4) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
(5) In two cases that showed punctate or linear low density structures adjacent to the distal side of the tumor nodules to the porta hepatis, a daughter nodule was detected by CT at 6.5 and 9.2 months, respectively, after the appearance of the low density structures.
(6) Based on their localisation and histology these are classified into three types (Epstein's pearls, Bohn's nodules, Dental lamina cysts).
(7) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(8) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
(9) Differential degeneration of the lateral microvessels may account for increases in collagen nodule growth and ultimate size.
(10) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(11) Significantly higher levels of c-myc gene expression were observed in tissues of HCC of the DEN group and in neoplastic nodules of the DEN-DES groups than in the DES and DEN-C group.
(12) On siratro, CIAT899 induced nodules that were ineffective in acetylene reduction, whereas the EPS-deficient mutants induced effective nodules.
(13) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
(14) These were not seen after the 35th day, however an occasional lymph nodule persisted in the intersitium.
(15) However, there is no reported study which compares the long-term outcome of patients with vocal cord nodules treated surgically with those treated with a combination of surgery and speech therapy, and those treated only with speech therapy.
(16) Fine needle aspiration of the thyroid is suggested as an initial diagnostic procedure in the evaluation of thyroid nodules.
(17) Here a diaphragm support breath pattern was used in voice therapy for patients with vocal nodules, recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, and incomplete glottal closure.
(18) The development of the nodules did not seem to affect the hosts.
(19) Neoplastic nodules showed a variable pattern of enzyme activities.
(20) Negative slit smears for AFB from the nodules repeatedly and the histology of one on the skin nodules clinched the diagnosis of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis.