What's the difference between patched and spotty?

Patched


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Patch

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.

Spotty


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of spots; marked with spots.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The label was present in a spotty fashion or over a so-called uropod.
  • (2) Enhanced sonograms were classified into five patterns according to the relative changes of the echo levels between the tumor and the nontumorous parenchyma of the liver as a result of enhancement: hyperechoic change, isoechoic change, hypoechoic change with hyperechoic rim (rim sign), marginal spotty hyperechoic change, and internal spotty hyperechoic change.
  • (3) 1) small elevation, 2) spotty barium fleck, 3) ill defined barium fleck and 4) barium fleck with halo were suggested the possibility of inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (4) Among 58 patients with the syndrome, spotty facial pigmentation was present in 36 (62%), and 29 (50%) of these also had pigmented spots on their lips.
  • (5) On incremental CT, dense, spotty peripheral enhancement was present in 23 of the 30 (77%) hemangiomas.
  • (6) Later spotty or smudgy extravasation may be seen in necrotic tumor areas, and increased vascular anastomoses appear between the nutritive and functional pulmonary circulations.
  • (7) A group of patients with cardiac myxoma who have a heritable syndrome involving skin myxomas, endocrine tumors, and lentiginosis--the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity--has been described previously.
  • (8) Observations of patients with plasma cell osteomyelitis and chronic destructive sympathetic arthritis indicate a special set of findings due to plasma cell osteomyelitis: metadiaphyseal ossifying periostitis, extreme demineralisation of the adjacent epiphysis with spotty focal sclerosis of the spongiosa and a chronic arthritis.
  • (9) In T1-weighted magnetic resonance images, a spotty hyperintense tumor of the sellar region was shown.
  • (10) An enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test system has been developed for the detection of tick spotty fever (TSF) group Rickettsia.
  • (11) The renal angiographic findings in our two patients with scleroderma and recent onset of hypertension included minor changes in the distal interlobar and arcuate arteries and a nephrogram displaying diffuse, spotty lucencies.
  • (12) Axillary node negative cancers with no or only spotty tumor necrosis (92% of all pN0 cases) were associated with a 96% 5-year survival rate corrected for intercurrent causes.
  • (13) Eleven showed varying degrees of radiographically detectable calcification having a spotty, linear, or amorphous pattern affecting either a short segment or the whole appendix.
  • (14) Case 1 was a 43-year-old woman with multiple cutaneous myxomas, mammary myxomas and spotty mucocutaneous pigmentation.
  • (15) Spotty calcification of the arteries of the lower extremity, which histologically is found in the intima, is also seen a little more often in diabetics with gangrene.
  • (16) We found this neoplasm in four women (ages 27 through 61 years) who had the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, endocrine overactivity, and schwannomas, an autosomal dominant familial syndrome.
  • (17) The metastases spread mainly by the lymphatic system (especially in diffuse, spotty or pseudo-elephantiasic forms and in regional forms), however numerous lymph node filters found through out the lymphatic system limit the progression of neoplasic cells.
  • (18) Though population, disease and mortality statistics of modern China are spotty and sometimes questionable, common consensus among the researchers is that since 1949 the public health situation in China has improved tremendously.
  • (19) Ramification at the pulp of the thumb is of a radiating rather than segmental type, and its control can be considered as spotty or intermittent.
  • (20) In basal hypertrophic cartilage areas, a co-distribution of collagens II and X was found with very little and "spotty" collagen III.

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