(n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
(n.) Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.
(n.) Wine flavored with species and honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(2) Differences between the albino vs pigmented strains were observed following injections of saline.
(3) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(4) Uptake studies with 22Na were performed in cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells, in order to characterize mechanisms of Na+ transport.
(5) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(6) The evolution and function of multiple forms of a given photosynthetic pigment in vivo are discussed.
(7) Changes in protein phosphorylation induced by phagocytic challenge were identified in cultured rat retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) following exposure to isolated rat rod outer segments (ROS) or to polystyrene latex microspheres (PSL).
(8) Both categories frequently showed pellagrous pigmentation and mucocutaneous signs of B-vitamin deficiency.
(9) We show that, in digitonin-permeabilized goldfish xanthophores, the pigment organelles can be induced to disperse by a combination of cAMP, ATP, and xanthophore cytosol.
(10) A red pigment produced by the actinomycete strain B 4358 was identified as butyl-meta-cycloheptylprodiginine (4) by 1H, 13C and correlation via long range coupling NMR spectra.
(11) Two unusual types of oral mucosal pigmentation are reported.
(12) These results are consistent with the idea that RPE pigment dispersion is triggered by a substance that diffuses from the retina at light onset.
(13) Rhabdomeres are substantially smaller and visual pigment is nearly eliminated when Drosophila are carotenoid-deprived from egg to adult.
(14) It is hypothesized that deposition of bilirubin in tissues takes place as an ongoing event, the deposited pigment being eliminated by bilirubin oxidase in healthy infants.
(15) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
(16) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
(17) Although mucocutaneous pigmentation was not present in two of the three patients, the features of intestinal polyposis are consistent with those of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.
(18) Cytochromes b, c(555), possibly c(1), cytochrome oxidase, a carbon monoxide-binding pigment, and flavoproteins were detectable in the spectra of both intact cells and mitochondria.
(19) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(20) The total number of neuronal cell bodies was 25% lower in AIDS (P less than 0.01) than in 12 age-matched controls, although the volume density of neuronal melanin did not differ from that of controls because the percentage of pigmented cell bodies was higher (P less than 0.01) and the cell bodies were more fully packed with melanin in AIDS.
Stippling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stipple
(n.) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
(n.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a 25-year history of normochromic normocytic anaemia with moderate basophilic stippling, mild renal failure, hyperuricaemia and abnormal porphyrins.
(2) Basophilic stippling and circulating nucleated red cells were not common findings in blood films.
(3) All of the cases exibited the classic form of osteopoikilosis with stippling.
(4) Seven of 100 (three bilateral, four unilateral) patients demonstrated rib stippling.
(5) We observed various macular pathologies in the form of macular stippling, retinal pigment epithelial defects, colloids & disciform lesions all in NIDDM patients, 70% of whom were uncontrolled on therapy.
(6) A distinct stippled pattern of vascular fluorescence was found in 87% of lesion biopsies; 75% of these contained deposits of IgA.
(7) We assumed, therefore, that there are two different ultrastructural forms of 3H-tryptophan containing extracellular enamel proteins and suggest that the granular or "stippled" form represents newly secreted precursor enamel protein.
(8) The "experimental" morphologic criteria were the presence of both basophilic stippling and either microcytosis or target cells.
(9) The calcification of the involved joints was more diffuse than the usual linear stippled calcification.
(10) The fish exposed to the highest lead concentration also showed an anemic response and basophilic stippling of erythrocytes.
(11) The second was a 16 months old Arabic boy without typical features but with a cataract and stippled calfications of a limited number of epiphysae.
(12) The neoplastic lymphoid cells consisted of either a monomorphous population or a variable mixture of small, medium-sized, and large cells with stippled chromatin and distinct nucleoli.
(13) In preameloblasts, on the other hand, the precipitates were located in mitochondria, nuclei, and on the inner face of the plasma membrane; however, few reaction products were observed in the intercellular spaces, lysosomelike granules, secretory granules, and stippled materials.
(14) Since the majority of transitional cell neoplasms have a papillary configuration, the stipple sign is highly suggestive of the presence of this lesion.
(15) In all three eyes, characteristic "stippling," or granularity, of the affected macula developed rapidly and vitreal cells were observed.
(16) Upon microscopic examination, any vaginal discharge with epithelial cells stippled with small coccobacilli indicated a possible Gardnerella vaginalis infection.
(17) To evaluate the mechanical or biochemical insult to the cornea induced by overnight rigid gas permeable (RGP) or soft contact lens (SCL) wear, punctate, stipple staining and corneal blotting were evaluated by biomicroscopy in a group of 23 subjects who participated in a single overnight in-laboratory test session.
(18) Fan-shaped stippled burns were produced on the skin when a revolver whose barrel had been modified by the Mag-Na-Port process was fired twice with the side of the muzzle in contact.
(19) The phalangeal anomaly is very important for the diagnosis of chondrodysplasia punctata at an age when epiphyseal stippling is no longer present.
(20) On computed tomographic scanning, an iso-or high-density mass containing stippled calcifications and originating in a posterior cervical neural arch was observed in all three cases.