What's the difference between vas and vasa?

Vas


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel; a duct.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
  • (2) To minimise the risk of recanalisation (0.2%), 20 mm of vas deferens was resected.
  • (3) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
  • (4) Emphasis is placed on techniques that prevent spontaneous recanalization of the ends of the vas deferens after vasectomy.
  • (5) After properly fixing the vas deferens with a ring clamp, the surgeon pierces the scrotal skin, vas sheath, and vas deferens in the midline with a curved dissecting clamp held at a 45 degree angle from horizontal.
  • (6) The acrosin inhibitors are localized in the mucosa cells of the cauda epididymis, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the urethra and distinct glandular units of the prostate.
  • (7) It is thus concluded that the active core for the morphine like activity in the mouse vas deferens bioassay is the fragment 61-65 of beta-LPH.
  • (8) Microsurgical vasovasostomy for the reversal of elective bilateral segmental vasectomy (vasectomy, vas ligation) was done in 57 patients (61 operations) between May 1977 and March 1984.
  • (9) There was a significant positive correlation between the efflux of noradrenaline from platelets and vas deferens (r = 0.56, P less than 0.001).
  • (10) Supersensitivity to noradrenaline was produced by both of the stereoisomers in isolated vas deferens of guinea-pigs although there was no difference in the activity.
  • (11) At lesser intensities, VAS occasionally produced a small pressor response.
  • (12) Probably there is a continuity of this system throughout the entire vascular pole including (1) all granulated cells, (2) all lacis cells, (3) the mesangium cells and (4) the adjacent smooth muscle cells of the vas afferens and vas efferens.
  • (13) Pain scores (VAS) and responses to a pain questionnaire were similar for both groups; however, within Group B improvement in mean VAS scores at rest with time were more sustained.
  • (14) Various techniques have been described, but in this surgeon's opinion the simplest and best method is to remove a length of a vas such that it becomes a physical impossibility to approximate the cut ends.
  • (15) A 10-month-old boy with a crossed ectopic testis and a common vas deferens is presented.
  • (16) Within the epididymis, regions closest to the testis develop soluble ACE activity about 1 week before those nearest to the vas deferens.
  • (17) Pretreatment of the vas deferens with both HNBTG and 2'-deoxycoformycin eliminated the difference in inhibitory potency between adenosine and 2-chloroadenosine.
  • (18) We interpret these results to indicate that angiotensins stimulate PGE production by adrenergic nerves in the vas deferens and that released norepinephrine mediates a part of the PGE production in response to the angiotensins.
  • (19) The effects of the ATP affinity label periodate-oxidized ATP (ATP-2',3'-dialdehyde; P-ATP) on contractile responses of the guinea pig vas deferens to ATP was characterized and compared to the effects of the specific P2x-purinoceptor photoaffinity label antagonist, arylazido aminopropionyl ATP (ANAPP3).
  • (20) Knowledge of the mechanical properties of the vas deferens is important in order to understand the mechanical interaction between an intravasal device (IVD) and the vas deferens--a necessary step for successful long-term implantation.

Vasa


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Vas

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Histological examination of the aorta showed atherosclerosis together with characteristic perivascular lymphocytic infiltration of the aortic vasa vasorum.
  • (2) 2 When the conversion of tyrosine was allowed to proceed as far as catecholamine (brocresine absent) no significant difference was observed between the accumulation of [14C]-catecholamines (CA) in depolarized rat vasa deferentia and the accumulation in control (non-depolarized) tissues.
  • (3) An identical type of lesions was revealed: disorders of the connective tissue, destruction of elastic fibers, alterations of vasa vasorum, with cellular reactions typical of each nosological form reflecting the peculiarities of the immunological processes.
  • (4) Distinct foci of lysis were present in the media and adventitia of all vein samples corresponding to the distribution of the vasa vasorum.
  • (5) Treatment of intact vasa deferentia with increasing concentrations of BAAM resulted in a progressive rightward shift in the dose-response curve to isoprenaline or salbutamol followed by a decreased maximum response.
  • (6) An antepartum diagnosis of vasa previa was considered in a patient in whom ultrasound revealed pulsatile loops of cord overlying the cervical os.
  • (7) In both rodents, when on a low protein-high water intake diet, considerable interstitial substance was found between the vasa recta of the bundles.
  • (8) Thus, vasa vasorum were shown to elongate their intramural segments in response to the changes of microenvironment in which the medial cells are placed, meeting the demand by the cells for increased supply of oxygen and nutrients.
  • (9) In sections of rat kidney, angiotensin II receptors were detected in the glomerulus, vasa recta and ureter.
  • (10) As blood flows through the interconnecting capillary plexus and up ascending vasa recta, transcapillary oncotic and osmotic pressure differences combine to cause capillary uptake of fluid.
  • (11) Insufficient blood flow through vasa vasorum may contribute to medial necrosis of the aorta and to aortic atherosclerosis.
  • (12) The method has proved generally stable and efficient, and has given significant computational results for a variety of models: calculations on single solute models of the coupled vasa recta nephron counterflow system have shown that for large water and solute permeabilities of the exchanging membranes, behavior of the non-ideal system approaches that of the previously described ideal central core model.
  • (13) The deposits were also located within the lumina of the vasa nervorum, some of which were undergoing disintegration and rupture with release of the proteinaceous material into the endoneurium.
  • (14) A network of vasa vasorum surrounding atherosclerotic plaque was observed in five luminal casts and in two cleared specimens; the vasa vasorum originated from the superior thyroid and ascending pharyngeal arteries.
  • (15) Blood flow was threefold greater in atherosclerotic than in normal coronary arteries during adenosine-induced vasodilatation, which suggests that proliferation of new vessels, not dilatation of existing vessels, accounts for the increase in flow through vasa in intima media.
  • (16) Recently, ultrasound has been used in the detection of vasa praevia.
  • (17) In vivo studies on eight dogs demonstrated that even in the absence of intraluminal blood flow the vasa vasorum maintained endothelial integrity and also showed that the endothelium was very sensitive to the loss of the vasa vasorum blood supply.
  • (18) Low doses resulted in necrosis of interstitial cells, thin limbs of the loops of Henle and vasa recta, while collecting ducts were spared (subtotal renal papillary necrosis).
  • (19) In method 2, 72% of the balloon-denuded patent arteries with intact adventitial vasa vasorum were partially re-endothelialized at 4 weeks and 84% at 8 weeks.
  • (20) Of the 97 failures, four were recognized as due to missed vasa deferentia, and the remainder were attributed to recanalization.

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