(n.) A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instillation of a talc suspension with thoracostomy drainage is also a safe and effective technique and should be employed when tetracycline fails or is contraindicated.
(2) It does, however, support other work, such as an analysis in 2003 combining data from 16 studies, which found a 30% increase in ovarian cancer among talc users .
(3) Microscopic examination showed talc granulomas and arteritis.
(4) Four distinct forms of pulmonary disease caused by talc have been defined.
(5) Cancer incidence and cause-specific mortality were studied in a male cohort of 94 talc miners and 295 talc millers, exposed to non-asbestiform talc with low quartz content.
(6) This prospective study was designed to determine the efficacy of iodized talc pleurodesis in patients with pleural effusions.
(7) Lateral thoracotomy with pleural abrasion and application of talc was performed on 8 adult beagle dogs.
(8) At 5 weeks, dynamic transpulmonary and transrespiratory compliance were less in the TALC lungs when compared with CONTROL lungs.
(9) We conclude that the decrease in bone formation constitutes an important aspect of the host acute-phase response in a rat model of talc granulomatosis.
(10) Better estimates of exposure-dose relationships in talc and granite workers as well as longer-term animal studies are required to evaluate the harmfulness of these work environments at present-day exposure levels.
(11) Bone loss in talc granulomatosis is paralleled by hyperplasia of bone marrow in the rat.
(12) Talc (magnesium silicate) is a widely used, generally considered benign substance.
(13) Silica is a component of talc (magnesium silicate) used as a drug filler.
(14) Talcs under the Food and Drug Administration are not regulated as to asbestos content; however, all talcs were well below the level mandated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for industrial talcs.
(15) The etiology and possible role of systemic talc granulomatosis in the development of immunosuppressive illness is reported herein.
(16) Binding to talc on the other hand showed no specificity, and the sensitivity was less.
(17) 2) If the board and adjacent ones are firmly fixed, dust talc or chalk through the cracks to stop them rubbing together.
(18) We have examined workers exposed to curing fumes, processing dusts, and industrial talc and have begun to evaluate exposures of these workers in detail.
(19) The authors review the literature concerned with the carcinogenic hazards of a long term exposure to talc.
(20) The radioisotopes 46Sc, 60Co, 59Fe and 51Cr in the activated talc served as tracers.
Tali
Definition:
(pl. ) of Talus
Example Sentences:
(1) In two typical cases of calcaneal fracture dislocation, the primary fracture, which runs forward and medially from a point behind the sustentaculum tali, is associated with inversion of the hindfoot.
(2) Particular fossils from Olduvai and Kromdraai that are supposed to be australopithecine and therefore bipeds, are confirmed (Oxnard, '72; Lisowski et al., '74) as being totally different from man in their talar morphology and essentially rather similar to the majority of the other fossil tali examined.
(3) They emphasize the importance of the internal arterial pedicle coming from the arteria tibialis posterior and entering the corpus tali through its internal wall.
(4) The point of insertion of the needle is defined in relation to a bony prominence below the medial malleolus, the sustentaculum tali, to which the posterior tibial nerve bears a constant relationship.
(5) the facies superior trochleae tali) is a torse, the medial flanking facet (corresponding to the medial articular facet of the trochlea, i.e.
(6) The coronal scans show disruption of the superior part of the posterior facet, sustentaculum tali depression (involvement of middle and anterior facets), peroneal and flexor hallucis longus tendon impingement, and widening and height loss of the calcaneus.
(7) In chronic cases pathological exostoses were identified radiographically in the sustentaculum tali and were demonstrated at post mortem in 4 of the horses which were destroyed.
(8) Six had associated bony abnormalities of the sustentaculum tali, and two of these showed destructive or mixed destructive and proliferative lesions resulting from osteomyelitis.
(9) In the operation advised the sinus tarsi is exposed and the semilunar fragment is reduced by rotation in the opposite direction and is fixed to the medial fragment (the sustenaculum tali not being displaced) by a transverse Kirschner wire.
(10) 230 adult Indian tali (from Agra region) were studied for the incidence of squatting facets.
(11) Diagnosis of nonosseous coalition requires careful examination with computed tomography, with attention to subtle changes in the hindfoot, particularly posterior to the sustentaculum tali.
(12) The clinical features were typical, and radiographs revealed short ribs, hypoplastic ilia, absence of ossification of sacrum, pubis, ischia, tali, calcanei, and many vertebral bodies; the long bones were short with mild metaphyseal flaring.
(13) Nineteen patients showing radiological subchondral changes in the trochlea tali are submitted.
(14) Radiography of the right tarsus revealed proliferative periosteal reaction along the distal caudal border of the sustentaculum tali and medial aspect of the calcaneus.
(15) At the follow-up examination of 61 patients with Osteochondrosis dissecans tali (OD) we found at 48 of them one or more injuries in the anamnesia.
(16) To ascertain whether one type of treatment of the congenital vertical talus was superior to others, we conducted a retrospective analysis of 36 congenital vertical tali in 21 patients whose average follow-up of 14 years was considered to be unusually lengthy.
(17) The shape of the trochlea tali varies, so the axis of rotation and the compensative movements of the fibula do.
(18) The primary differences between the fossil and modern tali involve the greater articular robustness of the fossils, probably to compensate for higher levels of biomechanical stress.
(19) In the first 3 cases, an oblique fracture line was observed crossing from craniolateral to mediocaudal and thus dividing the calcaneus into 2 large fragments: sustentaculum tali and posterior facet of the talar joint.
(20) Radiography revealed increased reactive bone along the sustentaculum tali and mineralization of the plantar tarsal ligament and tarsal sheath.