(a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
(a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
(a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
(a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors present a case of scaly carcinoma, located in a vesical diverticulum.
(2) Intraepidermal epithelioma of Jadassohn is a rare cutaneous neoplasm characterized by a solitary scaly verrucous plaque.
(3) A four and a half-year old Nigerian girl, living at home, who presented with protracted fever, multifocal lymph node enlargement, extensive scaly rash, injected conjunctivae, fissuring of the lip and other features consistent with a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease is reported.
(4) Neu-Laxova syndrome is a rare form of congenital malformation characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly with bizarre facial features, short neck, apparent edema, scaly skin, and perinatal death.
(5) In warmer water (18 degrees C), the parasites reproduced intensively only on the scaly form of fish, whereas no parasites were found on the scaleless form some days after infection.
(6) Alopecia and dry scaly skin were prominent in the diabetic mice but less extensive in the diabetic mice supplemented with EFA.
(7) After receiving either an 18.5% egg white diet for 25 weeks, or a 32% egg white diet for 12 weeks, they exhibited dermal lesions characterized by alopecia, scaly dermatitis and achromotrichia, which increased in severity with the deficiency.
(8) Macular, papulonodular and scaly, annular, or arciform lesions are represented, histopathologically by lymphocytic, predominantly neutrophilic, and mixed infiltrates with a prominent histiocytic component.
(9) Madrid artist Deno is oblivious to the grimacing, concentrating on needling a giant scaly fish into his chest.
(10) Subsequently, scaly erythema of the nose and of the auricles appeared.
(11) SPP was clinically characterized by scaly oval plaques on the trunk and proximal aspect of extremities.
(12) The surface of the spine is covered by a scaly keratin of possibly sloughing cells, and the cornified layer on the spine is very thick (more than 100 mu), reaching 3 to 7 times the depth of the corresponding layer in other parts.
(13) Among patients with scaly scalp lessons of varying severity the isolation rate was 64%, but dermatophytic fungi were also isolated from 16% of 50 asymptomatic children.
(14) Topical application of the major lipoxygenase product to paws of essential fatty acid-deficient rats resulted in nearly as complete resolution of the scaly dermatitis as did the application of columbinic acid itself; the cyclooxygenase product was not at all effective.
(15) Affected males are of small stature and exhibit scaliness and crusting of the eyelids, ears, tail, and feet, marked splenomegaly, moderate hepatomegaly, enlarged lymph nodes, and atrophy of the thymus.
(16) On the trunk, the abdomen was more severely involved than the back in 63% of the cases with the XLI, whereas the back was more scaly than the abdomen in 44% of those with IV.
(17) A scaly rash suggestive of ichthyosis and eye irritation were present in some heavy kava drinkers.
(18) We investigated lipoprotein metabolism in 14 patients with recessive X-linked ichthyosis (RXLI), a metabolic disease characterized by scaly skin, corneal opacity and steroid sulfatase deficiency.
(19) Microtrauma from small particles can aggravate the dry scaly dermatosis.
(20) These alterations in the process of keratinocyte differentiation may explain the clinically observed scaliness associated with hypothyroidism in humans.
Scurfy
Definition:
(superl.) Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scurfy lesions characteristically contain a population of large blastlike cells with round to oval nuclei, a vesicular chromatin pattern, and prominent single nucleoli.
(2) The role of the thymus in the development of fatal lymphoreticular disease in the scurfy mouse was investigated.
(3) The X chromosome-linked scurfy (sf) mutant of the mouse is recognized by the scaliness of the skin from which the name is derived and results in death of affected males at about 3-4 weeks of age.
(4) Bone marrow from scurfy mice can reconstitute lethally irradiated, H-2-compatible animals but does not transmit scurfy disease.
(5) Scurfy differs from Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in that scurfy males are consistently hypogonadal.
(6) We conclude, from these data, that scurfy lesions are mediated by T lymphocytes that mature in an abnormal (sf) thymic environment.
(7) Scurfy (sf), is an X-linked recessive lethal mutation that occurs spontaneously in the C3H mouse.
(8) Characteristic lesions in mice hemi- or homozygous for the X-linked mutation scurfy (sf) include lymphohistiocytic proliferation in the skin and lymphoid organs, Coombs' test-positive anemia, hypergammaglobulinemia, and death by 24 days of age.
(9) Thus, while our findings indicate that scurfy disease may be the result of immune dysfunction, it is not a classic immunodeficiency.
(10) Neonatal thymectomy doubles the life span of scurfy mice, moderates the histologic lesions, and prevents anemia, despite the continued presence of high levels of serum IgG.
(11) The centromere of the X (LGXX) has been tentatively assigned to the end nearest to the scurfy (sf) locus.
(12) Our studies indicate that the phenotype of hemizygous scurfy is not, as has been suggested, a model for human X-linked ichthyosis, but appears to be a disease primarily affecting the lymphoreticular, and possibly the hematopoietic, systems.
(13) Scurfy mice are negative for antinuclear antibodies.
(14) Despite their morphologically aberrant lymphoreticular system, scurfy mice can exist in a conventional environment without evidence of opportunistic infection.
(15) Scurfy (sf) is a spontaneous, sex-linked, recessive mutation that maps to the extreme proximal portion of the X chromosome, about 2 centimorgans from sparse fur (spf).
(16) Raising scurfy mice in a specific-pathogen-free environment does not alter disease expression.