(comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.
(n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(2) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(3) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(4) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
(5) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(6) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(7) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
(8) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(9) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
(10) About tow amyloid tumors diagnosed because of oropharyngeous signs, the authors remind the main symptoms at the upper airway and ENT tracts; the local, regional and general treatment will be discussed.
(11) On the other hand, the patients treated with cimetidine showed a marked, systematic increase in theophylline plasma levels, even exceeding the upper limit of its known therapeutic range in 4 cases.
(12) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.
(13) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(14) Finally, these cases support the existence of a therapeutic upper limit for desipramine plasma concentrations, above which clinical deterioration occurs.
(15) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
(16) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(17) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(18) Though the problems associated with Robin sequence may be numerous, especially if the primary cause of the sequence is a multiple anomaly syndrome, the most acute problems in affected newborns is upper airway obstruction.
(19) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(20) A total of 38 patients underwent attempted percutaneous extraction of upper tract calculi with the Wolf nephroscope.
Uppermost
Definition:
(a.) Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
Example Sentences:
(1) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(2) The authors, in other words, obtained information on expression of keratin 10, normally occurring in all suprabasal keratinocytes, as well as of the basal proliferation keratin 16 in the uppermost vital cell positions of PC lesion.
(3) A net of blood capillaries located in the uppermost part of the tunica propria occupies these grooves.
(4) Variation in risk in association with sugar and starch intake was also insubstantial, while for fiber, there was a nonuniform reduction in risk at the three uppermost fifths of intake.
(5) The nature of the horny layer which, as the uppermost barrier takes over the main part of the protective function of the skin against all locally applied substances, is shortly outlined.
(6) Pure-tone audiometry was performed before and after a 30-minute period of positioning the patient horizontally with the affected ear uppermost.
(7) A significant difference between the dependent and the uppermost triceps brachii was recorded.
(8) So, although the larger and more newsworthy constitutional clash in this case is about whether the law should apply to the heir to the throne – and thus about the wisdom or not of the prince’s way of lobbying ministers – this wasn’t the uppermost issue for the court today.
(9) This investigation compared teams at the two uppermost levels of men's volleyball in Canada for differences in physical, physiological and performance characteristics.
(10) On the skin surface, cytomembranes of the uppermost corneocytes frequently had unilateral, very slightly flat-elevated, zonal areas along the junctions between the corneocytes.
(11) ESCA analysis of the uppermost 5-nm point layer revealed the presence of N on silver points removed from failed treatments.
(12) Cholesterol 3-sulphate (CS) is a component of the intercellular lipid found in the uppermost layer of human epidermis (the 'stratum corneum') and is thought to play an important role in tissue cohesion.
(13) In BP, degenerated keratinocytes adjacent to the blister roof, may, after undergoing a filamentous change, drop off into the dermis and subsequently form homogeneous, fibrillar bodies in the uppermost dermis when reepithelization is completed.
(14) In the Commons, Cameron said continuation of the current system of regulation was "not an option" and that the victims of phone hacking needed to be uppermost in people's minds.
(15) There were no significant difference between the two groups in the mean time from the injection to recovery from analgesia in the two uppermost segments (121 min versus 107 min).
(16) In addition to a swelling that is generally only slightly tender to pressure, the most important symptom is usually a long-standing, intermittent, dull pain in the upper sternum, the claviculae and the adjacent uppermost ribs.
(17) The marking of the medial lip segment of the Millard rotation advancement procedure for repair of the unilateral cleft lip has been altered in the uppermost portion by utilizing tissue from the columellar base.
(18) Using immunocytochemistry and fluorography of newly synthesised collagens, we report that surface articular chondrocytes (which occupy the uppermost 10-15% of the tissue depth) from normal human cartilage initiate de novo synthesis of both type X collagen and alkaline phosphatase when maintained in suspension culture.
(19) Using ruthenium tetroxide as a secondary fixative, we are able to demonstrate stacks of lamellae filling the intercellular spaces in the uppermost layers of the stratum corneum.
(20) Electron microscopy of the nonvesiculated early erythematous skin showed small vacuoles and lacunae along the uppermost portion of the dermis.