(n.) The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
(2) Data of ether-extracted total fat content versus data of fat marbling planimetry correlated well with r = 0.9.
(3) beta-TG levels did not correlate with the volume of cerebral infarction as measured by planimetry from CT scans.
(4) Mean fiber area, determined by planimetry, was 49.1 and 34.5% greater following enlargement in male and female mice, respectively.
(5) Regurgitant volume was calculated from reverse aortic flow and was compared to jet length, area (by planimetry) and volume (from Simpson's rule).
(6) The lungs of bleomycin-treated dogs which received urokinase had less severe fibrosis and this was confirmed by morphometry with planimetry and the point counting method.
(7) In the interpretation of the tracings, significant differences were found for all measures, except planimetry; however, not all of these have the same practical implications.
(8) 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.
(9) Amplitude, duration and magnitude (as measured by planimetry) of anal relaxation elicited by rectal distensions were related to rectal distending volume (P less than 0.001).
(10) Blood-brain barrier disruption was assessed by spread of Evans blue dye with planimetry.
(11) Human coronary arteries were perfusion-fixed; sectioned and their external and lumenal circumferences measured by microscopic planimetry.
(12) The surface areas of the wheal and flare responses were measured by planimetry.
(13) Planimetry of transmission electron micrographs showed 59% of the intraepithelial membranes were stained with lanthanum in the DNP-OA-sensitized and DNP-OA-challenged group; 39% in the saline-sensitized, DNP-OA-challenged group, and 26% in the DNP-OA-sensitized, BGG-challenged group.
(14) Planimetry of megakaryocytes (MK) was performed in bone marrow biopsies (BMBs) from patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) to substantiate cytomorphologic differences in this cell lineage between the four main groups of CMPD.
(15) At the age of 7, mastoid X-rays were obtained and the air cell areas measured by planimetry.
(16) The menu for the data analysis provided for this device includes multilinear densitometry, with planimetry, area densitometry, measurement of anterior chamber depth and thickness of lens layers, determination of chamber angle and positioning of implanted intraocular lenses, and measurement of opaque areas in the retroillumination image.
(17) The effect of nitroglycerin and ibuprofen, given between 2 and 7 days after left anterior descending coronary artery ligation, on the mechanical resistance of the infarcted left ventricle to rupture or the rupture threshold (balloon technique), and on topography (computerized planimetry) and function (two-dimensional echocardiography) at 7 days (n = 32) and 42 days (n = 34) postligation was studied in 66 dogs randomly allocated to sham (no infarction, n = 22) and infarction subgroups (15 controls; 15 received nitroglycerin, 30 mg oral isosorbide dinitrate b.i.d.
(18) Three commonly used prostate volume measurement techniques were analyzed: planimetry, prolate ellipse volume calculation (HWL), and an ellipsoid volume measurement technique.
(19) NRL was quantified by planimetry of photographs of cut sections of brain.
(20) In this study we have measured gland size by planimetry,and cellular activity by autoradiography using tritiated thymidine and tritated histidine.
Planometry
Definition:
(n.) The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Premortem infusion of either Evans blue dye or neutral red dye was performed and the integrity of the blood-brain barrier and tissue perfusion were assessed by video planometry.