(n.) The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(2) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
(3) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(4) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(5) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(6) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(7) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(8) Change of steps in achieved just by varying the reaction conditions without any product purification.
(9) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(10) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(11) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(12) The pH of ST solutions varied with the mode of oxygenation as follows: 7.9-8.2 in Groups I and IV; 8.7-8.9 in Groups II and V; 7.1-7.4 in Groups III and VI.
(13) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(14) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(15) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(16) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
(17) In the first experiment ovariectomized female hamsters were administered varying dosages of progesterone (P), dihydrotestosterone (DHT) or CI-628 at the same time (concurrently) as estrogen (EB) or 48 hr after EB (sequentially).
(18) Widely varying numbers of endocrine cells were identified in 12 out of 64 cases of uterine cancer in the course of histochemical and electron microscopic examination.
(19) Products formed during electrooxidation were monitored as the electrode potential was varied.
(20) A total of 63 patients (95%) showed varying degrees of hyperostosis involving the cribiform plate, planum sphenoidale, or tuberculum sellae (including the chiasmatic sulcus).
Varix
Definition:
(n.) A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.
(n.) One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors suggest that pedal varix may be a more common occurrence than previously documented.
(2) Thrombosed varix of venous origin may be difficult to diagnose.
(3) A varix of the iris as a primary vascular lesion without evidence of reactive vascular proliferation secondary to obstructed outflow of a systemic vascular lesion occurred.
(4) Two own cases showed particulars in so far as one patient had an internal fistula between a varix in the base of the upper lobe of the lung and another varix in the apex of the lower lobe.
(5) The spermatic artery was identified and preserved in all but 1 varix ligation.
(6) The cause of the compression was found to be a giant venous varix formed by the dilatation of the outflow vein from a dural arteriovenous fistula located in the superior petrosal sinus.
(7) An orbital varix is a pathological enlargement of the venous channels within the orbit.
(8) We describe five cases of dilation or varix of the umbilical portion of the left portal vein appearing as a fetal intra-abdominal cyst.
(9) 132 varix ligations were performed during 44 separate EVL sessions.
(10) Nine gastric ulcers, four duodenal ulcers, one hemorrhagic gastritis, one gastric varix and three Mallory-Weiss tears were successfully electrocoagulated.
(11) The cause was proven to be a primary orbital varix.
(12) He was diagnosed as having grade 3 + mitral regurgitation (MR) by the Sellers classification and pulmonary varix by cardiac catheterization.
(13) Frequency of haemorrhage in the control group also increased with varix size: haemorrhage occurred from small varices in 35% of patients, from medium varices in 53%, and from large varices in 83%.
(14) He was found to have a thrombosed sapheno-varix with no evidence of a femoral hernia.
(15) Based on the complex regional and systemic hemodynamic forces and local physical properties underlying formation and perpetuation of esophagogastric varices, we propose, as with climatologic events, that a relatively minor or remote physiologic adjustment may set into motion a sequence of destabilizing splanchnic blood flow kinetics that ultimately causes a varix to erupt.
(16) Simple ligature of the bleeding varix is the operation which offers the greatest possibility of survival.
(17) Systemic intravenous administration of posterior pituitary extract temporarily controlled the hemorrhage in 94 per cent of the patients, and the emergency portacaval shunt promptly and permanently controlled the varix bleeding in 96 per cent of the patients.
(18) A new small noninvasive pressure-sensitive capsule for the endoscopic measurement of esophageal varix pressure was evaluated and compared to an initial Yale-designed capsule to test the hypothesis that the diameter of the capsule measuring surface is a limiting factor for the accuracy and variability of capsule pressure measurements.
(19) A rare case of giant cerebral varix with venous angioma and intracerebral hemorrhage, surgically treated with good outcome, is reported.
(20) When a rounded soft tissue density mass is seen on noncontrast-enhanced CT either in or contiguous to the renal hilum, a renal vein varix must be excluded.