(n.) A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
(n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
(n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
(n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
(n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
(n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
(n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
(v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
(v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
(v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
(v. t.) To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(2) The surface phenotypes of bovine intestinal leukocytes isolated from the intraepithelium (IEL), lamina propria (LPL) and Peyer's patches (PPL) of the small intestinal mucosa of normal adult cows were determined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific to adult bovine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL).
(3) We retrospectively studied the incidence and course of epoxy resin contact dermatitis in 2265 patients in whom contact dermatitis was confirmed by patch testing.
(4) A marked analgesic effect was found after application of morphine hydrochloride patch containing Azone and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.
(5) The internal carotid diameters increased 20% to 30% for both the vein and synthetic patched arteries.
(6) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(8) Patch and photopatch tests with fibric acid derivatives and ketoprofen were performed in the patients, in 12 normal volunteers, and in 7 patients with photopatch-proven photocontact dermatitis to ketoprofen.
(9) Here we report that the increase in the probability of S-channel opening with FMRFamide is mimicked by application of 12-HPETE to cell-free membrane patches that lack ATP and GTP.
(10) The effects of alanine, glucose and tolbutamide on insulin-secreting cells (RINm5F) have been investigated using patch-clamp and single cell intracellular Ca2+ measurements.
(11) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
(12) The distributions of the probabilities of seeing N channels open in multichannel patch records were not not always well fitted by the binomial distribution: it is suggested that adjacent channels could have different probabilities of being open.
(13) We observed a significant content of ELCF in three of seven patients with eczema prior to patch testing.
(14) Primary closure without a patch was associated with the least platelet uptake of all (PTFE versus vein patch, P less than 0.01; PTFE versus no patch, P less than 0.01; vein patch versus no patch, P less than 0.05).
(15) The channels usually ceased conducting within a few minutes after seal formation with the patch pipette and could not be re-activated with depolarizing voltage steps.
(16) Rupture of an attached patch was followed by a rapid (approximately 10 s), approximately 10-fold increase in outer-segment membrane current, all of which was light-sensitive.
(17) Five different surgical procedures were done: internal urethrotomy, Johanson-Leadbetter, patch-graft, Turner-Warwich, and dismembered technics.
(18) This retrospective study of forty-six patients with stasis dermatitis found a 60.9 percent incidence of at least one significantly positive patch test reaction.
(19) However, safe management of large duodenal defects may require the use of other methods, such as a serosal patch or creation of a duodenojejunostomy.
(20) Furthermore, clonidine can abolish, in reversible fashion, the acetylcholine-activated inward current determined with patch-clamp.
Variegate
Definition:
(v. t.) To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(2) Such characteristics are reminiscent of the behavior of variegating position-effects in Drosophila and the application of this paradigm to human disease phenotypes provides both a mechanism by which differential genome imprinting may be accomplished as well as genetic models that may explain the clinical association of syntenic diseases, the association between tumor progression and specific chromosomal aneuploidy and the unusual inheritance characteristics of many diseases.
(3) The diagnosis depends on fecal excretion of porphyrins, which is greatly increased in variegate porphyria and consists predominantly of protoporphyrin.
(4) Although clinical improvements occurred in the case of variegate porphyria, the results were inconclusive for reasons given.
(5) Appropriate laboratory tests on urine and feces samples are necessary to distinguish between PCTS and variegate porphyria when a young woman presents with the skin lesions characteristic of cutaneous hepatic porphyrias.
(6) One patient with variegate prophyria and two with hereditary coproporphyria had an attack related to pregnancy.
(7) The theory of the unconscious that arises from the method of direct interpretation reflects a differentiated inner world with variegated landscapes of images and frameworks.
(8) The faecal porphyrin patterns of 24 patients with porphyria cutanea tarda symptomatica (PCTS), eight patients with variegate porphyria, three patients with other types of porphyria, and 20 non-porphyrics subjects have been compared using a two-demensional thin layer chromatographic technique that separates porphyrins of the isocoproporphyrin series from other faecal porphyrins.
(9) A 62-year-old man with variegate porphyria is reported.
(10) Four patients with variegate porphyria (VP) were treated with repeated haem arginate infusions daily for 4 days and then weekly for 4 weeks.
(11) Hence, the differences in binding of the w+ gene probe in the variegating and variegation-suppressed strains reflect differences in chromosomal packaging rather than alterations in gene number.
(12) The lesions appeared brownish black, and most were variegated from tan to black.
(13) Thus, mice with variegating transgenes can provide molecular access to gene control mechanisms and to their consequences in development and disease.
(14) The results provide some indication as to the mechanism and timing for the general suppression of position-effect variegation by supernumerary heterochromatin in the genome.
(15) Beautiful and ancient plants, such as spreading bellflower , could become extinct in some places through the escape of variegated yellow archangel from gardens.
(16) Variegated endocrine cells were documented within this lining, using immunohistochemical and ultrastructural techniques.
(18) In white-mottled (wm) position-effect variegation mutants, a significant correlation was found between the extent of variegation (percentage of yellow cells) and riboflavin content (growth effect) of the MT.
(19) Four patients suffering from variegate prophyria were investigated during acute attacks.
(20) These changes include variegated hyperplasia of the pulp with epithelioid cells, mature eosinophilic granulocytes and immunoblasts occasionally resembling Hodgkin cells.