(n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pregnant ewes and their fetuses were chronically catheterized using aseptic procedures under general anaesthesia, and the ewes were then fed either lucerne chaff alone, or lucerne mixed with dried plant material obtained from one of three forb species, Tribulus terrestris (caltrop), Abelmoschus ficulneus (native rosella) or Ipomoea lonchophylla (cowvine), from 103-112 days gestation until term.
(2) Descending spinal pathways have been described in 'non-dextrous' avian species (chickens, ducks, geese and pigeons), and the purpose of this study was to determine if there are any differences in the origins of descending projections to the spinal cord in 'dextrous' or prehensile parrots (sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, and eastern rosella, Platycerus eximius).
(3) Certain disturbances in formation of the ON and in the internal membrane of the optic vesicle (future retina) under effect of x-rays in the dose of 2.24 Gy have been detected during the intrauterine period of development--folds, rosellas of retina, retardation in differentiation of the retina nervous layer, aberration of the ON growth with a subsequent reduction, the ON hypo- and aplasia, retardation in formation of neural sheaths, absence of intraspace between the sheaths.
(4) It was established that the active rosettes [correction of rosellae] in the patients with myocardial infarction were significantly less than in the controls (p less than 0.05).
(5) This yeast was not isolated from droppings of 13 small parrots, 10 eclectus parrots, 13 rosellas, 21 cockatiels, 6 Polytelidus sp., 32 Cacatua sp., 13 Carduelis sp., 5 waxbills, 5 starlings, 120 chicken, 9 turkeys, 2 geese, 2 Turdus sp., 1 duck and 1 gull.
(6) By means of the electron scanning microscope, structure of the olfactory rosella has been investigated in 5 species of marine Teleostei.
(7) However, ingestion of rosella seed was associated with a significantly greater fall of fetal arterial pO2 with advancing gestation, and ingestion of either rosella or cowvine was associated with significantly lower fetal mean arterial pressure at 127-131 days, compared with the Tribulus and lucerne groups.
(8) Among the species investigated variability in number and arrangement is observed in the olfactory rosella folds.
(9) Plaque-purified and non-plaque-purified velogenic viscerotropic Newcastle disease viruses (VVNDVs) were inoculated into golden-mantled rosellas (Platycercus eximius).
(10) RSL-1 and -2, isolated from diseased rosellas, were propagated in chicken embryo fibroblasts and CK cells, and were found similar to other herpesviruses in physicochemical and morphological properties.
(11) Increasing amount of cells in the transplants takes place only at the expense of neuroepithelium; its reorganization results in a peculiar rearrangement of cells with formation of so called rosellas with numerous mitotically dividing cells.
(12) Owing to this growth the differentiating cells migrate from the rosellas radially, unlike their layer-by-layer organization in the control.
(13) Eight viruses were isolated in embryonating eggs, from psittacine birds comprising a cockatiel, a budgerigar, 3 parrots, a love bird, and 2 rosellas.
(14) Simultaneously, in the spleen of the animals a decrease in the number of cells, forming rosellas with sheep erythrocytes and inhibition of their temperature resistivity have been noted.
(15) In the transplant, unlike the normal embryonal histogenesis, neuroepithelial cells make groups of rosellas.
(16) The aim of the investigation is to study the influence of human myocardium myosin on the quantitative values of T-lymphocytes examined as active rosettes [correction of rosellae] in patients with ischemic heart disease.
(17) A significant inhibiting action of the human myocardium myosin on the active rosettes [correction of rosellae] was manifested (p less than 0.002).
Roseola
Definition:
(n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.
Example Sentences:
(1) To confirm the causal nature of human herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6) for exanthema subitum we could demonstrate eight seroconversions testing sera from 14 patients with roseola infantum.
(2) Eleven cases of primary HHV6 infection associated with roseola infantum in babies, 1 of whom suffered from gastroenteritis as well as pyrexia and rash, are reported.
(3) The data suggest that there are clinical syndromes in addition to roseola infantum associated with the presence of IgM anti-HHV6, in which serological screening for evidence of acute HHV6 infection may be useful.
(4) This comparison has revealed that in typhoid fever in elderly and senile patients roseola typhosa is more rare, while the phenomenon of eruption is more frequent than in young patients.
(5) Several recent developments have sparked a renewed interest in this group of diseases, including the identification of parvovirus B19 and human herpesvirus 6 as the causative agents of erythema infectiosum and roseola infantum.
(6) We report three homosexual men who developed malaise, fever and a roseola-like exanthema which disappeared over 2 weeks.
(7) We recommend the addition of roseola to the differential diagnosis of rashes that occur in pregnancy.
(8) The 271 children had 318 physician diagnosed illnesses: 105 acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI), 121 diarrhoeas, 36 measles, 50 upper respiratory infections (URTI), 5 roseola infantums and one milaria rubria.
(9) Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) causes exanthem subitum (ES, roseola infantum), a childhood disease characterized by high fever and skin rash.
(10) The remaining four infants had an illness compatible with roseola infantum, although this diagnosis had not been made clinically.
(11) As to the present knowledge the critical rose rash of infants (exanthema subitum, roseola infantum) means to be an exanthematous infectious disease that, occurring preferably in elder babes and younger infants (1st--3rd year of life), is caused by the newly detected herpesvirus (now the sixth one) pathogenic for man.
(12) The final clinical diagnoses included acute otitis media, pneumonia, acute gastroenteritis, roseola, and cellulitis of the leg.
(13) The disease ran an atypical course; with early jaundice syndrome, severe enterorrhagia and late appearance of roseola.
(14) Most of the patients had some clinical signs of secondary syphilis, such as roseola, loss of hair, or lymphadenopathy, and their serological reactions for lues were strongly positive.
(15) A survey is given on the history, characteristic symptoms and recent data of the etiology of exanthem subitum (Zahorsky's disease, sixth disease, roseola infantum).
(16) In contrast to the results of previous reports, human herpesvirus 6, the causative agent of roseola infantum, could not be isolated from the saliva specimens, raising questions regarding oral transmission of human herpesvirus 6 and human herpesvirus 7 to young children.
(17) The other two had received antibiotics when febrile, and the subsequent appearance of the roseola rash had raised the possibility of antibiotic allergy.
(18) Seven of the children had rashes, and in four, the illness suggested roseola infantum.
(19) Twenty-five patients with clinical exanthema subitum (roseola infantum) were enrolled into a study, where acute-phase and convalescent sera were examined for antibodies to human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), several other viruses, and other microbes.
(20) The classic presentation of roseola is characterized by high temperatures (103-105 degrees F) that last 3-5 days and resolve by crisis followed by the appearance of a morbilliform rash that lasts a few hours to a few days.