(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(3) Patients were grouped as +RSC if they developed a sustained spontaneous palpable pulse or blood pressure and as -RSC if they did not develop a pulse or blood pressure.
(4) The lesion presented as a discrete, palpable mass that led to orchiectomy.
(5) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(6) A palpable, purpuric, nonpruritic eruption occurred in a 64-year-old man nine days after he received intravenous streptokinase therapy, which was successful in treating acute myocardial infarction.
(7) Abdominal pain was the most common presenting symptom and a pelvic mass was palpable in all patients.
(8) The tumor was palpable on physical examination, but not apparent on plain radiographs.
(9) Dietary quercetin inhibited both the incidence and the number of palpable rat mammary tumors; rats fed on 2% quercetin had 25% less incidence of mammary cancer, while the average number of mammary tumors per rat was reduced by 39% at 20 wk post-DMBA administration compared to animals on a control diet.
(10) For some patients with T3 or V+ tumors and palpably normal retroperitoneal nodes, an extended nodal dissection may resect microscopically involved nodes and result in an improved survival rate.
(11) Histologically confirmed results were obtained from 496 palpable findings.
(12) A nodal mass may be palpable and computed tomography (CT) is frequently requested in order to differentiate recurrent tumour from the longer term effects of surgery and radiotherapy.
(13) When palpable tumors developed in all animals, therapy was initiated.
(14) After complete, high quality x-ray mammography, a palpable mass or nonpalpable mammographic abnormality may remain indeterminate in etiology, and ultrasound may be useful as an adjunctive diagnostic modality.
(15) Activity of the cytosol enzyme esterifying cholesterol at pH 6.5 was also enhanced during the active growth of Zajdela hepatoma and during the period of chemical carcinogenesis characterized by the appearance of first palpable subcutaneous tumors.
(16) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
(17) The hybrid with the strongest NK effect (ACBF1) was the least resistant to YAC growth (27% palpable tumors), and the hybrid with the weakest NK effect (ALF1) was the most resistant to YAC growth (7.2% palpable tumors).
(18) The two patients were women, one a 45-year-old who consulted for pain, epigastric discomfort and melenas, and the other a 76-year-old who consulted for paraneoplastic syndrome and a palpable mass in the right lower quadrant.
(19) A review of the literature has shown that this is the largest such tumor so far described, and the first time a mass was palpable on abdominal examination.
(20) Caring for persons with AIDS calls upon a range of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual interventions that, in the absence of a cure, can make a palpable difference for patients.
Tractable
Definition:
(v. t.) Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.
(v. t.) Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimators are tractable even when there are incomplete observations.
(2) A smooth isolated, axisymmetric occlusion in a straight vascular tube is a tractable problem for pulsatile flow calculations via finite-difference approximations to the Navier-Stokes equation.
(3) Factor analysis was used as a statistical means to make the complex variables generated by the system more tractable to analysis.
(4) Evolutionary effects such as linkage disequilibrium and conservation of exons (DNA encoding structural proteins) as well as the fact that there are a tractable number of gene clusters involved, tend to make it quite likely that DNA pathology or DNA variation (polymorphism) predisposing to mental illness can be detected.
(5) Furthermore, the recognition of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in an early, tractable phase may be a matter of life and death.
(6) The model is distinctive in its ability to capture a significant broadening of auditory-nerve fiber frequency selectivity as a function of increasing sound-pressure level within a computationally tractable time-invariant structure.
(7) It is suggested that the use of biomarkers for persistent chemicals may be useful to mitigate the difficulty of determining exposure, while the use of more prevalent and timely end points, such as carcinogen-DNA adducts or oncogene proteins, may make the latency and rarity problems more tractable.
(8) Of particular interest to plant developmental biologists is the phenomenon of somatic embryogenesis in cultures of the domesticated carrot which, because of its tractable nature in experimental manipulations, is presently regarded as a suitable model for studying pattern formation in plants.
(9) The chain statistics problem is treated in an approximate manner using an approach motivated by scaled particle theory to describe the inter-chain steric repulsions in a mathematically tractable way.
(10) By ignoring cognitive factors and memory, a first-order Markov approach is taken, which is tractable for spatially homogeneous stimuli.
(11) The LI during the healing stage was higher than that during the active stage in both the tractable and intractable cases.
(12) In those cases where tractable models of heterogeneous systems can be developed, the experimental data are consistent with drops in PO2 on the order of a few hundredths of a Torr between cytosol and mitochondrion.
(13) In the world view Rubio outlined Wednesday, which he billed as a new doctrine, certain regional conflicts that look very difficult – the ongoing war in Syria, the failed state of Libya – in fact began as tractable problems that spun out of control due to tragic US negligence.
(14) Mathematically tractable alternatives are the linear formalism and the power-law formalism.
(15) With improvements in anaerobic handling procedures, this is beginning to change, and several experimentally tractable regulated systems of gene expression in methanogens are discussed.
(16) The main goals of the analysis are: to provide improved understanding of biochemical dynamics and their physiological significance, and to yield reduced dynamic models that are physiologically realistic but tractable for practical use.
(17) Results of this investigation suggest that bulimia displays a chronic but tractable course in that the majority of the patients continued to report bulimic behaviors at follow-up but the symptom intensity was greatly reduced from admission.
(18) Therefore, this review summarizes the rationale behind various experimental approaches, the nature and tractability of limitations, and the results which can be safely drawn from experimental studies to date.
(19) This approximation often makes the governing equations tractable, and analytical solutions may then be obtained.
(20) As a non-obligate metazoan, Dictyostelium discoideum has proven a particularly tractable system in which to identify and characterize cellular morphogens.