(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.
Vast
Definition:
(superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
(superl.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
(superl.) Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
(superl.) Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
(n.) A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(3) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(4) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(5) The vast majority of small cells were probably displaced amacrine cells.
(6) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(7) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(8) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
(9) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
(10) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
(11) We report that specific human (dC-dA)n.(dG-dT)n blocks are polymorphic in length among individuals and therefore represent a vast new pool of potential genetic markers.
(12) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(13) The vast majority of the epithelial cells were secretory, and the rest were ciliated.
(14) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(15) Lethal pulmonary embolism is associated with hypoxemia and hypocapnia in the vast majority of cases.
(16) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(17) Europe was never going to be another America or Soviet Union, with one constitution imposing national homogeneity over vast distances, and with people and investment migrating ceaselessly in search of employment.
(18) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(19) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(20) The vast majority of the subjects had correctly been given the diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.