(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.
Vitiligo
Definition:
(n.) A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six patients with spreading vitiligo treated with applications of monobenzone developed a vesicular dermatitis.
(2) Duplicate heparinized blood samples were drawn from 22 subjects; 2 healthy subjects, 1 vitiligo and 19 with thyroid or parathyroid diseases.
(3) Jackson said he suffered from vitiligo, a condition that causes the skin to lose its pigment.
(4) Three patients with malignant melanoma and coexisting vitiligo are described.
(5) Two vitiligo patients were hypergastrinaemic suggesting latent pernicious anaemia.
(6) The psoralen analogs 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP), in combination with ultraviolet light (UVA, 320-400 nm), are potent modulators of epidermal cell growth and differentiation and are commonly used in photochemotherapy of psoriasis and vitiligo.
(7) Since persons with the Down syndrome are predisposed to immunological deficiency in thymus-dependent (T-cell) function, findings from the skin examinations suggest that immunologic factors might contribute to the increased incidence of vitiligo and alopecia areata seen in the Down syndrome.
(8) Association with diseases such as diabetes, vitiligo and hypothyroidism have strengthened the auto-immune nature of this syndrome.
(9) The results of the present study suggest that systemic factors may play a role in the pathogenesis of vitiligo and acquired hypomelanosis guttata.
(10) Psycho- and autonomotropic drugs, acupuncture, and psychotherapeutic conversations were used for the correction of psychologic abnormalities in 49 vitiligo patients, presenting with impaired sociopsychological adaptation and autonomic imbalance.
(11) The data obtained suggest that kynurenine and serotonin pathways of tryptophan metabolism were intensified in vitiligo.
(12) The lysis of human melanocytes by vitiligo patients' sera by two different effector mechanisms provides direct support for the autoimmune hypothesis of human vitiligo.
(13) No significant differences in the results of several immunological examinations (E-RFC, EAC-RFC, EA-RFC, IF, IF-elution) came to light results suggest that the lymphocytes are probably not implied in the pathogenesisof vitiligo.
(14) In three men vitiligo-like skin changes, enlargement of liver and spleen and diffuse goitre (grade II) with increased TSH secretion developed within one to two years of their having started work in a factory producing paratertiary butylphenol.
(15) Vitiligo lesions themselves gave rise to unidentified dendritic cells that survived for 10-15 days without manifesting any growth.
(16) C4 typing by Western blot analysis showed the frequency of the C4A*Q0 allele in the vitiligo patient group to be close to normal.
(17) This culture system will be applied to investigate the basic pathophysiology of vitiligo and other various pigmentary dermatoses.
(18) Vitiliginous achromia with malignant melanoma shows some discrepancies with vitiligo.
(19) A 45 year old Saudi male with poliosis, alopecia areata, vitiligo, anterior uveitis, inflammatory changes in the posterior pole of the retina and paraparesis presented with features of the Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism.
(20) A diabetic patient is described presenting psoriasis, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, granuloma annulare, and vitiligo and with a history of recurrent erysipelas and mycotic infections.