(a.) Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
(2) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(3) These leiomyomas differ from those seen in pregnancy in their cellularity, patchy hemorrhage, and edema.
(4) The case seemed to be best classified as the patchy demyelination type, but the most unusual finding was a prominent vasculature in some demyelinated areas.
(5) Intestinal amyloid deposits, present 16 months before the clinical diagnosis of amyloidosis, were patchy and seen predominantly in the intestinal mucosa.
(6) But the unvaccinated child or children left behind are not the only ones at risk in a complicated and patchy effort to control the number of wild poliovirus cases found in Pakistan, which shot up from 58 in 2012 to 306 last year .
(7) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
(8) Necrosis was patchy in Glioma 522 and Mel-mo, but predominantly central in B16 and Lewis lung tumour.
(9) In the methylprednisolone group, 14 dogs had no adhesions; one had filmy adhesions; and none had dense patchy or dense diffuse adhesions.
(10) No other epithelia showed signs of L1 production, although occasional patchy uptake was indicated, particularly in kidney tubular epithelium.
(11) In the nucleus accumbens and ventral putamen (ventral striatum), a patchy distribution of beta 1 receptors was observed that was not evident in the rat.
(12) About one half of the patients showed in MR-images diffuse or patchy areas of decreased signal intensity in the regions of the bone marrow, while the bone marrow of the volunteers showed an almost homogeneous pattern with high signal intensity.
(13) Evidence of patchy periventricular hyperintensity representing presumed deep white matter infarction was sought in 20 patients shunted for normal-pressure hydrocephalus and in 35 additional consecutive patients with clinical symptoms and MR findings consistent with normal-pressure hydrocephalus.
(14) In nine specimens removed 5 days to 16 months after embolization therapy, a series of pathologic changes was seen, including patchy mural angionecrosis (adjacent to bucrylate fragments) up to six weeks after embolization, the presence of bucrylate in vessel walls and fibromuscular intimal cushions, and the occurrence (after several months) of entirely extravascular bucrylate.
(15) It showed patchy areas of coagulation necrosis in the cytoplasm of damaged myocardial cells which were not visualized with HE.
(16) Three reproduction photographers were found to have light patchy and reticular infiltrates on the chest x-rays.
(17) Lung histology showed interstitial edema and patchy atelectasis, features which are found also in the early stages of post-traumatic pulmonary insufficiency.
(18) Gastric antral endoscopic pinch biopsies from a group of dyspeptic patients were analysed for acute and chronic inflammatory cell numbers in the lamina propria and surface epithelial layer using computer-linked graphic tablet planimetry, and independently graded for Campylobacter pylori (CP) infection using a visual scoring system with grade 1 assessed as patchy epithelial infection and grade 2 as a continuous layer of organisms on the mucosal surface extending into gastric pits.
(19) Though endomyocardial biopsy is becoming a standard procedure at many medical centers, tissue sampling, especially in cases of patchy myocarditis, can result in further diagnostic difficulties.
(20) In two dogs, the reentrant circuit was located intramurally in close proximity to a patchy septal infarction.
Pitchy
Definition:
(a.) Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
(a.) Smeared with pitch.
(a.) Black; pitch-dark; dismal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air reeked of pine resin and the pitchy vinegar of wood ants.
(2) I hadn't learned how to tune a guitar, and nor had I really learned how to sing yet – so there are moments where it gets a bit "pitchy", to use modern parlance.