(n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe the role played by these substances in the pathogenesis of inflammations, their importance in the regulation of intraocular pressure and in the development of cystoid macular oedema.
(2) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(3) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(4) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
(5) A side-effect of this procedure is postoperative oedema in varying degrees of severity.
(6) The sluggish flow which results from this vasoconstriction and high venous pressure leads to a haemoconcentration which reduces oedema formation but favours leucocyte and platelet sequestration within the microcirculation.
(7) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
(8) During the incubation of the muscle fibres a transient intracellular oedema was demonstrated by electron microscopy and by determination of the exchangeable water content.
(9) The results demonstrated tumor cells infiltrating the surface meninges and a severe astrocytic reaction associated with oedema in the periventricular and brain stem subpial white matter.
(10) Macroscopic and microscopic pulmonary changes were predominantly those of oedema and emphysema.
(11) A series of 5-oxo-5H-1,3,4-thiadiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidine-6-carboxamides were synthesized and evaluated for antiinflammatory activity in the carrageenin oedema test and in RPAR in the rat.
(12) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(13) In rats, ACTH reduced the oedemas induced by zymosan and lambda carrageenan.
(14) The role of steroid therapy in brain oedema following acute cerebral lesions is still unsolved.
(15) 760 patients suffering from acute pulmonary oedema were treated between 1980 and 1986 at the Institute of Anaesthesiology of the Medical Academy in Wroclaw.
(16) Other pathological processes are usually imaged by their hyperecho-characteristics: brain oedema has an increased reflexion compared to normal brain tissue; all brain tumors are diffusely echogenic, the image allows preliminary grading e.g.
(17) In addition the alcian-blue staining intensity of vocal cord biopsies from patients with Reinke's oedema was compared with thyroid parameters, but a relation was not found.
(18) Ankle oedema disappeared under the combined therapy in three out of four patients who developed this side effect under nifedipine, although one additional patient developed ankle oedema under combination therapy.
(19) The maximum oedema was attained in less than 1 h, and there was, subsequently, a gradual decrease.
(20) Apart from evidence of enhanced lysosomal and peroxisomal fragility, probably secondary to the intracellular oedema, the intracellular organelles investigated in this study were unaffected by the myopathic process.
Swelling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swell
(n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
(n.) A protuberance; a prominence
(n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(4) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
(5) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(6) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
(7) At 7 days axonal swellings were infrequently observed and the main structural feature was a reduction in myelin thickness in affected nerve fibers.
(8) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
(9) Admission venom levels also correlated with the extent of local swelling and the occurrence of tissue necrosis at the site of the bite.
(10) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
(11) The intensity of involvement varies in different arteries, localized swelling is of particular importance as a measure of atherosclerotic involvement.
(12) The DTH responses were induced by subcutaneous injection of allogeneic epidermal cells (ECs) and were assayed by footpad swelling.
(13) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(14) (1970) Endocrinology 87, 993--999), in stimulating both mitochondrial protein synthesis and swelling.
(15) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(16) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
(17) The method is based upon osmotic swelling, sonication and centrifugation in sucrose.
(18) By contrast, all the semen samples that fertilized oocytes showed a 60% or higher reaction in the hypoosmotic swelling test, whereas the majority of the "infertile" semen samples showed less than 60% swelling.
(19) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(20) After 3-5 days of side-arm traction, swelling had usually diminished sufficiently to allow the elbow to be safely hyperflexed to stabilize the fracture after elective closed reduction.