(n.) Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
Example Sentences:
(1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(2) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(3) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(4) The wall of the yolk sac thickens as a result of this infolding and the densely packed capillaries.
(5) Strong correlations were found also between postsystolic shortening and thickening measured immediately before reperfusion and systolic shortening and thickening measured after recovery at 2-3 weeks (r = 0.73, n = 28; p less than 0.001 for shortening; r = 0.79, n = 12; p less than 0.01 for thickening).
(6) During development of the tubular cysts the cystic BM appeared thickened and multilayered, with numerous matrix vesicles.
(7) Fibrinogen was scattered in the intercellular spaces, and located in the inner layer or edges of the thickened intima of the bifurcation with increasing plaque formation.
(8) In castrates, the prostatic stroma became thickened, with a large increase in fibrous material between and surrounding each acinus, although smooth muscle cells retained their normal cytology.
(9) Confirmatory tests of sinus disease are transillumination (useful in adolescents if interpretation is confined to the extremes--normal or absent); radiographic findings of opacification, mucous membrane thickening, or an air-fluid level; and sinus aspiration (indicated for severe pain, clinical failures, or complicated disease).
(10) (1986) described the connective tissue thickening and named it the mandibulo-stylohyoid ligament because of its arrangement and attachments.
(11) 6 patients had thickened pericardium, and 3 had constrictive features.
(12) In abnormal arteries such as small vessels present in inflammatory tissue, the IEL was frequently discontinuous and associated with intimal thickening.
(13) The calculations revealed that local hypoxia and lipoprotein accumulation may occur at the ridges, leading to subsequent intimal thickening and ridge growth.
(14) Light microscopy of the kidneys revealed mesangial expansion, glomerular capillary wall thickening, and lumenal thrombosis.
(15) This case suggests that myocardial inflammation and edema may cause thickening of the ventricular wall during the course of acute myocarditis.
(16) Light microscopic examination of irregularly thickened white and black portions of abnormal scales demonstrated two distinctive populations of pigment-containing cells.
(17) Adenosine triphosphatase activity in some synaptic vesicles and mitochondria, on pre- and postsynaptic membranes, as well as in the postsynaptic thickening was established.
(18) At the former site the membrane overlying the bud showed an electron opaque thickening which imparted to the mature particle an asymmetrical appearance.
(19) Interalveolar septa were hypercellular and multifocally thickened.
(20) Thickening of the gallbladder wall, a subserosal "halo" of edema, pericholecystic abscess, and marked gallbladder distention were consistent findings in AAC.
Tylosis
Definition:
(n.) An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructural studies have been carried out on epithelium taken from the oral lesions of tylosis-related leukoplakia and preleukoplakia in a group of patients known to be at high risk for esophageal carcinoma.
(2) The major changes in the condyle were tylosis and morphological deformation of the fibrous layer of the parietal region.
(3) It would seem possible that this entity may be more common than the sparse literature would indicate, and that other cases may currently be masquerading as tylosis.
(4) A case of tylosis following corrosive stricture of the oesophagus in a male of 26 years is recorded.
(5) The results suggest that in the oesophageal epithelium of the patients with tylosis, inflammation is the predominant abnormality, together with individual cell keratinization, and that these lesions appear in a much younger age group than dysplasia.
(6) There have been no congenital anomalies associated with tylosis in the literature.
(7) Lack of uniformity of the fibrous layer and a shallowing of the mandibular fossa; proliferation of the fibrous connective tissue and reduction in size of the superior and inferior articular cavity; tylosis and irregularity in the articular disc; deformation and tylosis of the fibrous layer of the articular cartilage, tendency of the layer structure in the articular cartilage to disappear, and some effect on cartilaginous ossification in the condyle; flattening of the condyle and thinning of the layer structure in the condylar articular cartilage in the unaffected side of the mandibular joint.
(8) Several predisposing disorders for esophageal cancer are known and include Barrett's esophagus, achalasia, chronic strictures due to corrosive substances, tylosis, coeliac disease, and the Plummer-Vinson syndrome.
(9) It is suggested that there is probably a connection between the state of the oesophagus and the state of palms and soles and that an oesophageal abnormality may precede tylosis of the late onset type.
(10) The control of her diabetes has been poor, and diabetic neuropathy and lipoatrophy-induced painful skin lesions such as clavus and tylosis have been persistent.
(11) More than one form of 'simple' hyperkeratosis palmaris et plantaris (tylosis) probably exists.
(12) Although ethnicity is a strong indicator of risk of this disease, no specific genetic factor except the occurrence of this cancer among the members of families with tylosis has been identified.
(13) Tylosis is an autosomal dominant inherited defect of keratinization, associated in two Liverpool families with a high risk of developing oesophageal squamous carcinoma.
(14) High-risk groups for gastrointestinal carcinoma are heterogenic in regard to etiopathology; familial predisposition and genetic defects (familial adenomatosis coli, tylosis palmaris et plantaris, Gardner syndrome, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome), occupational factors (asbestor exposure), surgical intervention (resected stomach, ureterosigmoidostomy), long lasting passage obstruction (oesophagus) or chronic inflammatory alteration of the mucosa (pernicious anemia, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, glutenenteropathy).
(15) These conditions include achalasia, Barrett's esophagus, chronic atrophic gastritis with intestinal metaplasia, familial polyposis coli, gastric polyps, lye stricture, Plummer-Vinson syndrome, and tylosis.
(16) A typical patient is presented, with mental deficiency, short stature, pypoacusia, muscular atrophy, tylosis, pseudoacanthosis nigricans and endocrine disturbances.
(17) Further support comes from the association between dermatophytosis in man and inherited conditions such as atopy, chronic mucocutaneous candidosis and tylosis as well as experimental data showing that susceptibility to dermatophytosis in mice varies in different inbred strains.
(18) We report a family previously diagnosed as suffering from tylosis (Thost Unna syndrome), in which eleven members have been affected, and review the literature on this disease.
(19) Tylosis is determined by an autosomal dominant gene and presents with slight thickening of palms and soles first evident in early infancy and fully described by the sixth month.
(20) Histologic observation revealed tylosis of the fibrous layer of the condyle, shrinkage of the cartilaginous layer, enlargement of the marrow cavity, reduction in the number of osteoblasts in the condylar neck, and cellular disarrangement and other morphologic changes of both the fibrocartilaginous and cartilaginous layers.