(n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
(n.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.
(n.) Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
(v. t.) To form tissue of; to interweave.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(3) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(4) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(5) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(7) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(8) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(9) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(10) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(11) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
(12) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(13) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(14) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(15) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(16) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(17) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(18) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(19) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(20) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
Transfixion
Definition:
(n.) The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-two out of 69 patients with bleeding duodenal ulcer were treated with partial gastrectomy, the remaining with transfixion and vagotomy and pyloroplasty.
(2) The locking transfixion screws afford additional axial and rotational stability and have expanded the use of intramedullary fixation to include all types of femoral fractures distal to the lesser trochanter and to within 7 cm of the knee joint.
(3) A sublabial incision with septal transfixion and mid-face degloving is described as an approach to the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses and nasopharynx.
(4) The Ilizarov external fixator can be safely applied if the surgeon is alert to the "danger areas" where the transfixion wires might penetrate a neurovascular structure.
(5) The technique involves suturing the anterior part of the medial crura of the alar cartilages to the posterior part of thecaudal end of the septal cartilage through a transfixion incision using permanent suture material.
(6) It did not cause any significant tissue reaction and obviated the problems of transfixion sutures.
(7) Safe areas for transfixion using fine wires and their corresponding cutaneous zones are indicated.
(8) The Modny transfixion intramedullary nail has been used in 261 cases of complex femoral fractures with excellent results.
(9) After resection of the ankle joint we also resect the tibiofibular syndesmosis putting than in a transfixion screw.
(10) Transfixion screws and biologic ingrowth fixed the fragments rapidly, resulting in no measurable shortening or rotational deformity, and rapidity of healing was enhanced.
(11) The device consisted of two large rings, six compression screws and six small transfixion rings.
(12) We present our experience in 310 operations using the transfixion approach and repositioning of the nasal septum in the midline.
(13) A total of 36 frames were used with 20 unilateral half-frame constructs and 16 bilateral transfixion frames.
(14) The technical tests indicated that changes were needed in the geometry of the devices; these were achieved by designing a junction piece which enables the transfixion pins and the smooth stabilization rod to remain in the same plane, while leaving the rest of the instrumentation unchanged.
(15) In the first two cases, partial rhizotomy perpendicular to the axis of the nerve at the site of arterial transfixion made it possible to separate the artery from the nerve.
(16) Through a transfixion incision, a rhomboidal portion of both the depressor muscle of the nasal septum and the orbicular muscle of the mouth are excised.
(17) It has had excellent results, especially in combination with the transfixion wiring technique.
(18) The transfixion rod has been used in the treatment of supracondylar fractures of the femur to organize comminuted condylar fragments about a stable, intramedullary insertion of the rod.
(19) Complete transfixion of the membranous septum and adequate lowering of the cartilaginous septal angle are adjuncts to success with either method.
(20) Serial cross-sections of the thigh have been used to indicate where osseous transfixion is possible without damaging neuro-vascular structures or major tendons or penetrating a joint.