(n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(3) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(4) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(5) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
(6) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
(7) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(8) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(9) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(10) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(11) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(12) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(13) The causative organisms included viruses, fungi, and bacteria of both high and low pathogenicity.
(14) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(15) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(16) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(17) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(18) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(19) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(20) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
Saprobe
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A great number of organisms characteristic of certain degrees of pollution were classified in the "saprobic system", which is still valid.
(2) An immunodiffusion technique was used to evaluate the antigenic relationship of various pathogenic and saprobic Basidiobolus spp., Conidiobolus spp., isolates of the order Mucorales, and several other medically important nonzygomycetous fungi.
(3) Recently, reports have surfaced in which saprobic fungi, as well as fungi pathogenic for plants, seem to be evolving as human pathogens.
(4) Seventy yeast strains, representative of twenty-six ascogenous genera, four saprobic hemibasidiomycetous genera and thirteen genera of the Cryptococcales were tested for their reaction with the stabilized aromatic diazonium compound, Diazonium Blue B salt.
(5) Norms of microbiological (coliform titre, nitrification titre, urea hydrolysis titre, number of bacteria, BOD2 and BOD5), hydrobiological (intensity of photosynthesis, saprobic index, number of algae) and chemical (oxidability, DMDT content) characteristics, determining the ecological quality of water, are suggested.
(6) Curvularia lunata is a saprobic dematiaceous mould that resides primarily in soil (Ellis, 1966).
(7) We showed that immunolabel was localized in the cell wall of both the saprobic and parasitic phases but was most concentrated in the wall of the segmentation apparatus of spherules just prior to endospore differentiation.
(8) The effect of leaf exudate and leaf, root, and tuber extracts on the germination of the conidia of three saprobic fungi, viz., Curvalaria sp., Alternaria sp., and Helminthosporium sp.
(9) Two methods were tested in order to determine the existence of in vitro antagonism among saprobic and pathogenic fungi.
(10) The comparison of the described findings with the trophic-systems of HUTCHINSON, NYGAARD and RAWSON indicated an eutrophic type of lake; classification according to the types of the various saprobic systems of NAUMANN, KOLKWITZ and LIEBMANN yielded a predominantly beta-mesosaprobic type of lake.
(11) Pityrosporum ovale is an episaprophyte - but most mycoses are caused by fungi which have an exosaprophytic (or exosaprobic) life: one becomes infected after exposure to the saprobic source of the fungus.
(12) The great differences in the individual value of both groups seem, however, to make it possible that the determination of the relation of the aerogenic Aeromonads to the anerogenic could show a more sensitive system of waste contamination or of waste load than the saprobic system used in comparison.
(13) Yeasts originating in the preputial cavity were generally saprobic members of the genera Candida, Cryptococcus, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, Torulopsis and Trichosporon.
(14) H. capsulatum is the most extensively studied of the dimorphic fungi, with a parasitic phase consisting of yeast cells and a saprobic mycelial phase.
(15) The saprobes, A. bisexualis and Cladosporium sp., demonstrated acquired resistance.
(16) The titres of physiological processes in bacteria (hydrolysis of urea, nitrification), total number of bacteria and photosynthesis were found to show high correlation with standard characteristics: BOD5 and saprobic index.
(17) Some of the factors contributing to these difficulties include the abrogation of the immune response associated with improved medical technology, the impact of AIDS, the invasion of the immunocompromised host by fungi previously considered to be saprobic, and the minimal mycologic training of medical personnel.
(18) Coccidioides immitis is a unique fungal pathogen, characterized by a saprobic mycelial phase that gives rise to infectious arthroconidia which in host tissue, convert into a morphologically distinct spherule-endospore phase.
(19) farciminosum, Blastomyces dermatitidis, Coccidioides immitis, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, and morphologically related saprobic fungi.
(20) neoformans has been persistently demonstrated in the saprobic environment of caged munia birds at a local zoological garden.