What's the difference between scleroderm and scleroderma?
Scleroderm
Definition:
(n.) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish.
(n.) One of the Sclerodermata.
(n.) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that increased expression of highly branched N-linked oligosaccharides terminating in GlcNAc residues is characteristic of both neoplastic and sclerodermal chicken fibroblasts.
(2) The 16 previously reported cases in the English literature are reviewed and tabulated in an attempt to determine the pathological and clinical presentation of carcinoma of the lung superimposed on the sclerodermal lung.
(3) As a consequence, platelet adhesion and activation might occur in sclerodermic patients.
(4) Two years thereafter, multiple sclerodermic lesions appeared over the trunk, upper extremities, and thighs; these disappeared about 2 years later.
(5) Blood flow values in sclerodermic skin were directly proportional to the degree of dermal sclerosis.
(6) Experience gained with the use of captopril has been summarized in 5 patients with sclerodermic renal crisis (true sclerodermic kidney) as well as the results of the double blind clinical trial of captopril in 16 patients with Raynaud's syndrome.
(7) Diabete and blood hypereosinophilia occurred four months before acute onset of severe proximal sclerodermic features.
(8) A "worst case" was constructed in calculation of lambda using zero fat content for sclerodermic skin.
(9) Captopril given for a long time in the dose 75-150 mg to the patients with true sclerodermic kidney turned out effective which showed up by a decline and stabilization of arterial pressure, decrease of the intensity of azotemia and headaches, and stabilization of renal function.
(10) Four sclerodermic patients and 18 normal subjects were studied.
(11) The findings suggest that the morphologic changes of vascular and extravascular tissue observed in sclerodermic skin do not affect distensibility of the vascular bed in subcutaneous tissue.
(12) The presence in the blood of large amounts of serotonin can be considered a very important aggravating factor able to cause the sclerodermic alterations.
(13) There may be some degree of independence between the sicca syndrome and the sclerodermal manifestations.
(14) Recent pharmacological advances including calcium channel blockers, meticulous surgical care, and skin grafting offer promise for more consistent wound closure in sclerodermal skin ulcerations.
(15) This finding is a non specific finding suggestive of collagen vascular disease rather than specific for scleroderms.
(16) Proceeding from the aims of an influence of sclerodermic changes of the tissues, a prevention of restrictions of the movement and an improvement of the general condition a classification of suitable physiotherapeutic measures is recommended.
(17) It presents vast cutaneous sclerodermic changes associated with eosinophilia, signs of muscular exertion, and a massive inflammatory infiltrate involving the lower part of the dermis, subcutaneous tissue and the muscle fascia.
(18) As lambda in sclerodermic skin is probably decreased due to a decreased fat content, it may not be correct to interpret these results as evidence of increased blood flow.
(19) Nonpropulsive contractions instead dominated in the lower oesophagus, but were frequent also in the upper part, resembling the motility pattern seen in patients with sclerodermal involvement of the oesophagus.
(20) There is a close pathological and physiological correlation between idiopathic and sclerodermal facial hemiatrophy.
Scleroderma
Definition:
(n.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
(2) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(3) Type II includes the Sjögren's syndrome, rhumatoid arthritis, primary biliary cirrhosis, scleroderma and autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(4) Here we present a case of systemic scleroderma with unilateral enophthalmos.
(5) A patient with scleroderma of recent onset was found to have a carcinoma of the oesophagus.
(6) It is not influenced by previous soft tissue damage induced by linear scleroderma and may enable better monitoring of the effectiveness of proposed therapies.
(7) The pathologic findings in this new case were scleroderma-like skin atrophy, arteriosclerosis, and atrophy of the endocrine glands (including the genital organs).
(8) Two hundred and thirty-seven patients with systemic sclerosis were followed prospectively in a scleroderma clinic.
(9) She had photosensitive skin of early onset, hypertrichosis, and severe scleroderma-like lesions of the hands.
(10) This family constitutes the first record of the familial coexistence of the CRST syndrome with Sjögren's syndrome, and the second evidence of vertical inheritance of scleroderma.
(11) Scleroderma should be considered in the diagnostic evaluation of joint contractures.
(12) Methods are described that are used for the titration of antinuclear, anticentromere, and anti-Scl-70 antibodies in systemic scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis: indirect immunofluorescence with various antigenic substrates (sections of fresh-frozen rat liver and Hep-2 cell culture), counter-current immunoelectrophoresis, isolation of Scl-70 antigen.
(13) In vivo capillaroscopic examination was performed on patients with localized scleroderma to determine whether nailfold capillary abnormalities seen in systemic scleroderma (systemic sclerosis) were also present in the localized form.
(14) Fibromyalgia patients reported significantly higher levels of learned helplessness, assessed according to a rheumatology attitudes index (RAI), than patients with all other diseases, and scleroderma patients showed significantly lower RAI scores (P less than 0.05).
(15) Six scleroderma patients had abnormal indices, two of whom had high titre ribonucleoprotein antibody.
(16) These data may indicate that intrinsic upregulation of extracellular matrix genes in scleroderma fibroblasts utilizes a TGF beta dependent pathway.
(17) In a previous paper, we have found, at post-mortem examination of three cases of scleroderma, the oesophageal smooth muscle alterations already predicted by physiologists and reported by Treacy.
(18) Pulmonary involvement was significantly more frequent in nucleolar + homogeneous FANA positive patients; moreover, in two cases the same pattern proved to predict the development of diffuse scleroderma.
(19) Only pregnancies occurring before symptom onset in the scleroderma group were considered for analysis.
(20) The haemodynamic data recorded from one patient suggested that pericardial fibrosis in scleroderma may predispose to pericardial tamponade.