What's the difference between sclerosed and sclerotic?
Sclerosed
Definition:
(a.) Affected with sclerosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
(2) Infiltration of the walls of blood vessels by mammary epithelium was found in two cases of sclerosing adenosis.
(3) The role of virus infection in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, visna and mouse hepatitis virus infections, is discussed in relation to the demyelinating process of these diseases.
(4) To determine if embolization of sclerosant to or through the pulmonary circulation occurs, chest scintigrams were performed following intravariceal injection of 1-3 mCi 99m-Tc-MAA mixed with 5-20cc of sclerosant in 18 patients undergoing a total of 25 sclerotherapy sessions.
(5) A case of a 37 year old male is presented, who died from primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) with characteristic radiological picture and laboratory data suggesting chronic pancreatitis (CP).
(6) None of 53 patients with autoimmune chronic active hepatitis had the MZ phenotype, but it was found in 2 of 18 patients (11.1%) with cryptogenic cirrhosis, 3 of 78 (3.8%) with alcoholic liver cirrhosis, 2 of 36 (5.6%) with primary sclerosing cholangitis, and 1 of 26 (3.9%) with primary biliary cirrhosis.
(7) Reactivation of cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been implicated as a possible etiological agent in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) partly because of the ability of CMV infection to cause hepatobiliary damage, and further because of the recent recognition of a PSC-like syndrome in AIDS patients, many of whom have hepatobiliary infection with CMV.
(8) The present series of five cases expands the spectra of both histological patterns and clinical presentations and suggests that the entity of sclerosing stromal tumours may not be as clearly circumscribed as has been previously reported.
(9) Sclerosing hemangioma of the lung (SHL) was investigated immunohistochemically, histochemically and ultrastructurally with reference to cellular components associated with the histologic pattern: cuboidal cells in the papillary type, round cells in the solid type, flat cells in the hemorrhagic type and stromal cells in the sclerotic type.
(10) For improvement of hemostasis and during the elective sclerotherapies, 1% polidocanol was used as the sclerosant.
(11) Direct injection of gastric varices is difficult because of increased postsclerotherapy bleeding, but sclerosis of esophageal varices often leads to their obliteration by the caudad flow of sclerosant.
(12) This conclusion has been drawn by the authors of this paper from their own therapeutic results obtained from 37 cases of anorectal prolapse in childhood, with therapeutic sclerosing being used in 23 instances.
(13) In the present study prevalences of the fourmain blinding eye lesions in persons aged 30 years or more were sclerosing keratitis (3.7%), iritis (8.7%), optic atrophy (14.2%) and choroidoretinitis (11.3%), and the prevalence of blindness was 4.2% (both eyes) and 2.0% (one eye).
(14) However, among the various subgroups it was as follows: chronic active hepatitis due to HBV: 9.4%, alcoholic: 12.2%, cryptogenic: 3.5%, autoimmune chronic active hepatitis: 6.6%, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC): 9.5%.
(15) We conclude that a number of non-specific chronic inflammatory histological abnormalities were present in primary sclerosing cholangitis gall bladders.
(16) In contrast, there was no perirectal bleeding in 4 patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis who underwent proctocolectomy with an ileoanal anastomosis.
(17) He attempts to analyse the clotting activity of the vein wall before and after the sclerosant injection.
(18) The principles of management and potential effects of primary sclerosing cholangitis on pregnancy care are discussed.
(19) In this review, the frequent association of pyostomatitis vegetans with inflammatory bowel disease as well as the potential for pyostomatitis vegetans to present with sclerosing cholangitis and liver disease before any other manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease is discussed.
(20) In particular, there was no definite sclerosing medially, where the changes in the cartilage were most marked.
Sclerotic
Definition:
(a.) Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical.
(a.) Affected with sclerosis; sclerosed.
(n.) The sclerotic coat of the eye. See Illust. of Eye (d).
(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, increased cell turnover is a significant component of the sclerotic process both at the onset and in the late stages of this model.
(2) A sclerotic border and osteoid seams were noted, two features that seem not to have been previously reported in early lesions.
(3) The centre-left leader saw himself – and was widely regarded – as a dynamic force capable of reforming Italy after two decades of sclerotic politics.
(4) Vascular insufficiency due to sclerotic changes in vessels of various diameters undoubtedly contributes to the pathogenesis of the optic nerve impairments in the involved and clinically healthy eyes.
(5) The observers assessed the panoramic and periapical radiographs of the teeth, which were evenly distributed throughout the jaws with a 50% probability that either an osteolytic or sclerotic lesion was present.
(6) A sclerotic patriarchal social system is also to blame.
(7) Using microscopic sections of the kidney from 153 autopsies (99 SIDS infants and 54 control infants) in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Cooperative Epidemiologic Study of Risk Factors for SIDS, we counted relative numbers of sclerotic glomeruli in four fields of renal cortical tissue in two sections from each infant.
(8) In comparison to normal kidneys, a reduction in HLA class II antigens of ICAM-1 and of renal antigens defined by the monoclonal antibodies TN8-TN10 was observed in sclerotic glomeruli.
(9) The roentgenographic appearance of most lesions consisted of a radiolucent central nidus encircled by sclerotic bone.
(10) Sclerosing hemangioma of the lung (SHL) was investigated immunohistochemically, histochemically and ultrastructurally with reference to cellular components associated with the histologic pattern: cuboidal cells in the papillary type, round cells in the solid type, flat cells in the hemorrhagic type and stromal cells in the sclerotic type.
(11) The unusual histologic features were the presence of both sclerotic and cavernous hemangioma variants in the same tumor and extensive areas of calcium deposits in the tumor.
(12) The other change was a diffuse or multifocal hyperplasia of the parafollicular (C) cells that was present in other parts of the thyroid parenchyma--sometimes with gradual development of sclerotic tumors that had been exclusively formed by these cells.
(13) The distribution and configuration of the sclerotic formations in nine such cases were studied and compared by light microscopy and SEM.
(14) At 44 degrees C, LD values were decreased in patients with respect to controls for both sclerotic and and non-sclerotic skin.
(15) Examinations of 202 patients (337 eyes) with different forms of macular dystrophies, such as idiopathic flat detachment of the retina in the macular area, central sclerotic dystrophy of the retina, tapetoretinal macular degeneration, outcome of local inflammation of pigmented epithelium, post-traumatic central chorioretinitis, etc., allowed to receive data confirming high information value of a method based on the phenomenon of dynamic scotoma of disadaptation as compared with examinations on the Amsler's grid and campimetry.
(16) It was also shown that the degree of sclerotic degeneration of the thoracic aorta in group 2 was lower by 55% as compared to group 1 animals.
(17) We used light microscopy to study 87 human temporal bones (from 47 cases) with no known otological disorders, and found that certain cases had sclerotic changes around the endolymphatic duct and sac.
(18) Sclerotic changes, periosteal reaction and sequestration were present in three patients.
(19) This technique is very convenient for adult cholesteatomas developed in a sclerotic mastoid with an extension limited to mesotympanum and attic, to the children cholesteatomas developed in the mesotympanum with a sclerotic mastoid, for the correction of retraction pockets after a closed technique, rehabilitation of radical mastoidectomies, fibroadhesive otitis and some idiopathic glue tympanic membrane with a large cholesterol granuloma.
(20) Lesions in the seminal vesicles were suggestive of diminished testosterone production even though Leydig cells were discernible in the sclerotic testicular intertubular tissue.