What's the difference between reticulate and retiform?

Reticulate


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Reticulated

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This situation highlights the potential importance of molecules with different inheritance patterns in elucidating complex cases of reticulate evolution.
  • (2) Reticulate acropigmentation of Kitamura in a mother and her daughter is reported.
  • (3) Dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis is a rare heritable disorder consisting of a triad of cutaneous findings including reticulate hyperpigmentation, noncicatricial alopecia, and onychodystrophy.
  • (4) MRI delineated discrete lesions, typical of cavernous angiomas, with a mixed hyperintense, reticulated, central core surrounded by a hypointense rim.
  • (5) Finally we noted that the complete photoozonolytic degradation of the (iso)desmosines present in a semi purified reticulated elastolytic fraction resulted in a shift of the size distribution of these peptides toward lower values.
  • (6) Collagen reticulation was studied as a function of fiber location along these tendons by measuring hydrothermal isometric tension (HIT).
  • (7) It has a reticulated pattern and most resembles a spot of ink on the skin.
  • (8) In an electron microscope study on the developmental cycle of the goat pneumonitis strain of Chlamydia psittaci in L cells, it was observed that miniature reticulate bodies, measuring approximately 0.2 mum in diameter and surrounded by double unit membranes, were produced infrequently from normal-sized reticulate bodies through a "budding"-like process.
  • (9) The molecular weights of proteins synthesized by host-free reticulate bodies closely resembled the molecular weights of proteins synthesized by reticulate bodies in an intracellular environment, and included outer membrane proteins.
  • (10) Epidermal cells that would otherwise produce only alpha keratin in reticulate scales are induced to reorganize and differentiate into barb ridge cells that accumulate feather beta keratins.
  • (11) Ultrastructural examination of the co-infected cells showed that, although many CT-L2 inclusions were present, most were empty of reticulate bodies or elementary bodies.
  • (12) An analytical study was carried out on the different aspects presented by the nuclei (uni or multi-lobated); the nucleoli (compact, reticulate or dispersed); and the cytoplasm (immunoblastic, complex, intermediate).
  • (13) Small blood vessels were frequently observed in association with the reticulated epithelium.
  • (14) Both primordia come from the same source and their epithelium reticulizes and can form concentric corpuscles.
  • (15) The nucleolus, which has a reticulated fibrillogranular structure at the primordial and primary follicle stages, becomes entirely compact and is made up of a conspicuous and homogeneous mass at the antral follicle stage.
  • (16) The dermis of reticulate scales does not induce beta stratum formation, but it does support differentiation of a beta stratum by the determined 15-day scutate scale epidermis.
  • (17) Purified reticulate bodies were easily disrupted by mechanical agitation, and it was observed in shadowed preparation that ribosome-like particles 15 mmu in diameter were scattered from broken reticulate bodies.
  • (18) Three morphologically distinct rickettsial forms were observed in individual hypodermal cells: (i) typical growth forms with a finely reticulated cytoplasmic matrix and distinct ribosomes; (ii) atypical forms with lightly to densely staining cytoplasm and a coagulated appearance in which ribosomes cannot be distinguished from the matrix; and (iii) forms with crystalline bodies that have a striated to beaded lattice structure and, at times, a fibrillar body in the cytoplasm as well.
  • (19) As the result, reticulated nucleoli obtain the nucleolonemal structure.
  • (20) One of these proteins was confirmed, by analysis of the inferred amino acid sequence, as the 60-kDa Cr outer membrane protein associated with differentiation of reticulate bodies (RBs) into elementary bodies (EBs).

Retiform


Definition:

  • (a.) Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A review of 15 well-documented cases of proliferative periostitis reported in the literature and a description of six new cases, five fully documented, have shown the following: a variety of irritants both odontogenic and nondontogenic in origin may induce neoperiostosis in the mandible; radiographically, cortical redundancy and preservation of the original cortical outline are the most common findings; and microsocopically, a fibro-osseous pattern evincing one of the three trabecular orientations--parallel, retiform, or haphazard fibrous dysplasia-like--is featured.
  • (2) In the patient with metastatic disease, the metastases had a pure sarcomatoid pattern without any retiform areas.
  • (3) Histologically, the retiform component varied from moderate to predominant in eight of the nine cases.
  • (4) The clinicopathologic findings in nine patients with ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor with retiform pattern are described.
  • (5) Among the parapsoriasis, lymphomatoid papulosis and large-plaque parapsoriasis and its variant, retiform parapsoriasis, have a variable tendency to undergo malignant degeneration.
  • (6) An additional histologic feature was the presence in the fibrous stroma of the tumor of tubules of probable sex cord derivation arranged in a retiform pattern.
  • (7) In the first case, a sebaceous adenoma took multifocal origin from the epidermis and exhibited an interanastomosing retiform growth pattern in the underlying dermis; the lesion rapidly recurred as a keratoacanthoma after subtotal excision.
  • (8) Heterologous elements were seen in seven tumors (58%)--enteric glands in three Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors and one Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor with retiform pattern, and neuroendocrine carcinoma in one pure Sertoli cell tumor and two Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors with retiform pattern.
  • (9) Types of the structure of the structure of the parathyroid glands (compact, retiform, lobular) are identified and their morphological changes under conditions of impairment of the phosphorus-calcium metabolism are described.
  • (10) Statistical analysis revealed a significant association between hemorrhages and retiform capillaries in all three types of tumors, except that in oligodendrogliomas the statistical significance held true when calcification of the capillaries was also present.
  • (11) Microscopic examination revealed retiform spaces containing papillae and nests of transitional-like epithelium.
  • (12) Based on data available so far, patients with glial tumors with retiform capillaries, confirmed on biopsy, should be carefully monitored to exclude possible intratumoral hemorrhage.
  • (13) 5) Presentation of an unusal case with striated and retiform verrucous psoriasis-like eruptions, which show a relationship to parakeratosis variegata.
  • (14) The retiform areas consisted of an irregular anastomosing network of spaces lined by cuboidal cells, often with papillary formations and sometimes with tubules compressed to form slit-like spaces.
  • (15) The retiform pattern in the third group of tumors was characterized by tubuloalveolar structures resembling rete testes.
  • (16) In three cases the retiform areas appeared mature, and in three they were less differentiated.
  • (17) Five dogs had Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors, four had pure Sertoli cell tumors, and three had Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors with a retiform pattern.
  • (18) No germ cell component and no heterologous elements were identified, but a retiform pattern was present.
  • (19) An invasive malignant melanoma on superficial extensive melanoma coexisted with a retiform intradermal naevus pilosus.
  • (20) On microscopic examination, the retiform areas were predominant in three cases and focal in the other three.

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