(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.
Sphericity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(2) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(3) As a consequence of deformation from spherical-to-cylindrical shape in the microvasculature, demands for increased surface membrane area leads to increases in surface membrane tension above critical levels for rupture, and the cancer cells are rapidly and lethally damaged.
(4) From the different shapes of the scattering curves of the native phosphofructokinase at pH 7.5 in the presence of 15 mM ATP and of the cross-linked tetramer or octamer, it can be inferred that the shapes of the protomers are different: in the presence of ATP the protomers are elongated, having an axial ratio of 1.8 to 2.0; the cross-linked state reveals a spherical protomer of radius 33.0 A, similar to that of the native enzyme at pH 7.5 in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate or fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.
(5) Equivalent viewing power (EVP), field of view, and working distance (WD) were calculated for 4 different magnifier equivalent powers, four magnifier-to-eye distances, and for uncorrected spherical ametropias varying from +20.00 to -20.00 D in 0.25 D steps.
(6) A sound source is commonly spherical, therefore solutions are found for the wave equation in spherical coordinates, giving a precise meaning to the 'azimuthal' and 'magnetic quantum number' analogy.
(7) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(8) A simple method has been developed for fusing synaptic vesicles into spherical structures 20-50 micron in diameter.
(9) Anterior lenticonus is a rare condition, in which there is a conical or spherical protrusion of the anterior surface into the anterior chamber.
(10) These results suggest that the shapes of the two enzymes are more spherical in solution than the proposed structural model previously reported.
(11) Elementary spherical particles similar to those described in the mitochondria are found in isolated rat liver and spleen nuclear membranes.
(12) NF-L in 6 M-urea took the form of spherical particles with a diameter of about 12 nm.
(13) Later, melanocytes became spherical and had membrane bound, autophagosome-like compartments of pigment granules.
(14) Rotation time constants obtained from the dichroism decay are not consistent with a spherical shape, for either the holo- or core repressor.
(15) The mean spherical approximation (MSA) provides a simple and reliable method for computation of single ion activities.
(16) Neuron #1 contained large spherical electron-dense vesicles while neuron #2 contained smaller subspherical vesicles.
(17) The morphological unit of the regular array appeared to consist of four spherical subunits, each about 2 nm in diameter, which were arranged in a tetragonal pattern about 4.5 by 7.0 nm in dimension.
(18) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
(19) A simple closed-form solution is derived for a thin linearly elastic spherical model of the cornea.
(20) Levels of pregnenolone and progesterone in spherical pig blastocysts (near 4 and 15 microM respectively) exceeded respective levels in histotroph by about 400-fold.