(n.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.
Example Sentences:
(1) Report of three cases of porokeratosis Mibelli with emphasis on the ultrastructural changes of the entire epidermis underlying the cornoid lamella: autophagocytosis, filamentous degeneration, formation of "corps ronds".
(2) With a biopsy examination, histopathologic findings were acanthosis, hyperkeratosis, lacunae, acantholysis, corps ronds, and grains.
(3) A dearth of corps ronds and grains in these anatomical regions was observed histologically.
(4) Using electron microscopy the same specific abnormalities of the keratinization process as known from classical cases of PM could be demonstrated: autophagocytic cells that revealed perinuclear edematization and vacuolization, accumulation of autophagic vacuoles and heterolysosomes, and dyskeratotic corps ronds-like cells that become transformed to fibrillar or Civatte bodies.
(5) Among many others, Daniel Bernoulli, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Leonhard Euler, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange realised that there was a similarity in the maths of how to describe waves in strings, across surfaces and through solids and fluids.
(6) Corps ronds were formed individually in the regions lateral to that of grains, where hypergranulosis was prominent in contrast to a mild dyskeratosis.
(7) Some of these epidermal cells underwent dyskeratosis and appeared as corps ronds-like bodies in the granular layer.
(8) In early stages of dyskeratotic cells, keratinosomes were increased in number and some of them persisted inside the plasma membrane without a release into the intercellular spaces, and thus they were present in grains and corps ronds.
(9) Some decades later, mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert generalised the string problem to write down the wave equation, in which he found that the acceleration of any segment of the string was proportional to the tension acting on it.
(10) Therefore, the formation of grains and corps ronds seem to be independent of each other.
(11) Scanning electron microscopy revealed varied surface morphological appearances of corps ronds and of the epidermal cells covering the elongated dermal villi.
(12) Histological signs of Darier's disease, including 'corps ronds', 'grains', and acantholytic clefts are demonstrated in the wall of an epidermoid cyst in a patient with Darier's disease of the skin.
(13) The cornified lesions were distinguished by the presence of numerous corps ronds in the basal portion of the greatly hyperkeratotic stratum corneum, hypertrophic dermal villi containing enlarged capillaries, vacuolar dilatation of rough endoplasmic reticulum in sublacunar basal cells, unusually numerous Odland bodies in spinous cells adjacent to lacunae, and persistent attachment of tonofilaments to disrupted desmosomes.
(14) Open daily 8am-6pm Ronde, Stockbridge, Edinburgh Ronde A classy cafe-cum-shop stocked with fashionable cycling accessories, Ronde is a place that will definitely appeal to the style-conscious road cyclist.
(15) Light microscopy revealed suprabasal lacunae, corps ronds and grains.
(16) These three isotopes were incorporated in cells constituting the basis and wall of the lacuna, while they did not accumulate in isolated acantholytic and dyskeratotic cells in the lacuna, corps ronds and grains.
(17) The Stade Vélodrome crackled with nervous energy, the highly tuned expectancy of the French coursing in one direction, euphoric delight brimming out of the Albanians, who even before the game had been dancing and tooting car horns near the Rond-Point du Prado , just outside the super-structure of Marseille’s modernised amphitheatre.
(18) Grains and corps ronds are consistent histopathological findings in Darier's disease: the ultrastructure of these cells is described.
Stroke
Definition:
(imp.) Struck.
(v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
(v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
(v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
(v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
(v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
(v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
(v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
(v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.
(v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
(v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
(v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
(v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
(v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
(v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.
(v. t.) Power; influence.
(v. t.) Appetite.
(v. t.) To strike.
(v. t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
(v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing.
(v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
(v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
(2) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(3) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(4) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
(5) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
(6) Five late strokes were ipsilateral (1.8%) and six were contralateral (2.1%) to the operated carotid artery.
(7) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(8) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
(9) Acetylsalicylic acid has been shown to reduce significantly stroke, death and stroke-related death in men, with no detectable benefit for women.
(10) Atrophy was present in 44% of TIA patients, 68% of PRIND patients and 82% of completed stroke patients.
(11) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
(12) Recognised risk factors for stroke were found equally in those patients with and without severe events before onset, except that hypertension was rather less common in the patients who had experienced a severe event.
(13) These are risk factors for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
(14) Stroke was the cause of 2 and congestive heart failure the cause of 4 deaths.
(15) Combined clinical observations, stroke volume measured by impedance cardiography, and ejection fractions calculated from systolic time intervals, all showed significant improvement in parallel with CoQ10 administration.
(16) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(17) During surgical stimulation cardiac index increased in group A due to an increase in heart rate but remained below control in group B, while stroke volume index was reduced in both groups throughout the whole procedure.
(18) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
(19) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
(20) One hundred ten atherosclerotic occlusions of the internal carotid artery (ICA) were found in 106 patients in group I. Fifty-one percent of these patients had a history of stroke before arteriography, 24% had transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or amaurosis fugax (AF), and 12% had nonhemispheric symptoms.