(a.) Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.
Example Sentences:
(1) High levels of P. orbiculare IgE antibodies were associated with current eczema, especially when it was the only atopic manifestation and demanding specialist care.
(2) and Pityrosporon orbiculare (Malassezia furfur), but also possesses some activity against Gram-positive bacteria.
(3) Myectomy of the orbicular muscle was performed in 8 patients.
(4) In addition many substances used as solvents or in vehicles had an inhibitory effect in vitro against P. orbiculare.
(5) Similarily, P. orbiculare may induce a flare-up of the eczema of the head and neck, while HSV may cause a true wide-spread infection known as eczema herpeticum.
(6) The intraarticular procedure described by Bosworth or Boyd involves a one-third resection of the orbicular ligament and resection of a synovial fold.
(7) A group of 12 tinea versicolor patients and 15 normal subjects were studied in vitro for cell-mediated immunity to P. orbiculare extract.
(8) This peculiar level of loss of consciousness is characterized by a coma without mimic and without awakening after painful stimulation, by a stereotyped motor pattern in extension, by a perseverance of the photomotor reflex, while fronto-orbicular and vertical oculo-vestibular reflexes are lacking.
(9) The in vitro antimycotic activity and the in vivo antimycotic activity (in a rabbit model) of itraconazole against P. orbiculare were compared to the corresponding activities of ketoconazole.
(10) The Ouchterlony gel diffusion test revealed a considerable similarity between the antigenicities of P. orbiculare and P. ovale, and little similarity between P. orbiculare andP.
(11) The importance of motor reactivity to pain associated to the brain stem reflexes (fronto-orbicular, photomotor, horizontal and vertical oculo-encephalic) is stressed.
(12) On the upper eyelid, skin excision is combined with an orbicular muscle strip and in older patients a suspension of the lateral canthus.
(13) Cultures of P. orbiculare and P. ovale did not show any fluorescence in Wood's light.
(14) In patients with Pityrosporum folliculitis the mean serum antibody titer against Pityrosporum orbiculare was significantly higher than in healthy control subjects (p less than 0.01).
(15) Dimorphism of Pityrosporum orbiculare was induced in an artificial culture medium which consisted of 0.05 M glycine in 0.03-0.06 M ammonium phosphate buffer (pH 5.6), salts, glucose, and Tween-80.
(16) Inoculation with P. orbiculare under plastic occlusion on the glabrous follicle-rich inside of the rabbit ear resulted in a tinea versicolor-like lesion after I week in 3 of 4 animals.
(17) The electromyogram of orbicular muscles of the eye and masticatory muscles was studied in 19 patients with facial nerve neuritis and 11 normals.
(18) Pityrosporum orbiculare, the presumed etiologic agent of tinea versicolor, was cultured in vitro and antigenic extracts prepared from the cultured organisms.
(19) The study revealed an increase of the latent period of motor and reflex responses of the orbicular eye muscles testifies to disturbances of the myeline structures of the facial nerve.
(20) Only globous unicellular units (Pityrosporum orbiculare) were seen outside the active lesions and in these, after the successful treatment with ketoconazole.
Orbiculate
Definition:
(n.) That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.
(a.) Alt. of Orbiculated
Example Sentences:
(1) The tapetal plasma membrane facing the meiocytes then develops a series of depressions, or cups, over its surface, which are later the site of pro-orbicule formation.
(2) Proposals that pro-orbicule formation results from non-specific accumulation of lipid at a free cell surface are rejected, instead this formation is considered to be related to the presence of a specially modified plasmamembrane surface.
(3) No morphological evidence was found for the intracytoplasmic formation of pro-orbicules or polymerized sporopollenin precursors.
(4) Sporopollenin is laid down over the pro-orbicules, to form orbicules, and over other tapetal cell surfaces.