(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.
Rotund
Definition:
(a.) Round; circular; spherical.
(a.) Hence, complete; entire.
(a.) Orbicular, or nearly so.
(n.) A rotunda.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, with only 20 days of monocular deprivation both deprived and non-deprived rotundal neurons are larger than normal.
(2) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
(3) I'd quite like to be a balding, rotund, Jungian analyst between 40 and 50."
(4) In slim black jeans, motorcycle boots and a T-shirt darkened with sweat from the soundcheck he has just come from, he is anything but rotund – in fact he is lean and sinewy.
(5) Nucleus pretectalis was identified as a major target of rotundal efferents as well as a significant input to nucleus rotundus.
(6) In a previous study, rotundal lesions in the 'trained' hemisphere caused deficits in interocular transfer of visual discrimination when the lesion was made after acquisition of the monocular learning, but not when the lesion was made before the monocular learning.
(7) The woman of the house was rotund and had some trouble walking.
(8) Bottle cells forming in vivo show a predominantly animal-vegetal apical contraction and a concurrent apical-basal elongation, whereas those forming in cultured explants show uniform apical contraction and remain rotund.
(9) He painted The Kongouro from New Holland from sketches by the voyage's official artist – who had died on the way back – and a kangaroo's skin, which it is thought he inflated, no doubt leading to his roo's somewhat rotund appearance.
(10) The rotund (rn) mutation in Drosophila is unique in that its phenotype is limited to the deletion of specific distal parts, though not the extremities, of all adult appendages.
(11) Large spherical bodies designated "rotund bodies" are formed as a result of the association of a number of separate cells.
(12) They also exhibited important phenotypic defects, such as slow growth in liquid broth, a tendency to aggregate as 'rotund bodies', a twisted filamentous shape, and an extreme sensitivity to lysozyme, suggesting protective and shaping roles for the S-layer in T. thermophilus HB8.
(13) With a "Ladies and gentlemen, the members of the President's review board," the inaptly named former Senator Tower (he is a rotund five foot five) led in his fellow-candidates for the Pulitzer Prize.
(14) Her rotund, elegant wooden creations suggest waves curling over rocks perforated by the sea.
(15) The Cube is for people who find Total Wipeout – rotund insurance sales-people being hurtled into butterscotch Angel Delight in South America – too cerebrally arduous.
(16) The rotund body thus appears as a series of rods, usually lying in parallel around the periphery of the sphere, completely connected by means of the fused outer layer.
(17) Brief anaerobic exercise and purely static forms of training (sprint, strength sports) do not produce substantial increases in the size of the heart, but a rotund heart shape with rounding of the cardiac tip and in some cases a discrete increase in the wall thickness of the ventricular myocardium is frequently observed.
(18) Some rotundal units appeared sensitive to substrate vibration.
(19) Today he's not the rotund of Superbad nor quite the skinny of post- Moneyball ; he looks tall and broad-chested, well-groomed, with close-cropped hair.
(20) The nucleus rotundus, the diencephalic station of the tectofugal pathway, exhibits the fastest development: rotundal neurons reach their maximum size at 20 days of age; the volume of this structure reaches adult size at the same time.