Sentences with phrase «abnormal shape»

Correction of abnormally shaped femurs is occasionally required in cases where abnormal shape of the femur angle the knee cap to luxate most or all the time.

They can also bend into abnormal shapes, called misfolds.

This phenomenon did not occur in the mutant plants lacking autophagy machinery, in which damaged chloroplasts showing abnormal shapes accumulated.

Clinical pathologists have divided the various abnormal shapes that RBC assume into nine major groups - and probably got carried away in doing so -(those are: sherocytes, leptocytes, target cells, stomatocytes, folded cells, speculated RBCs, schistocytes, acanthcytes and echinocytes).

Many neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's are thought to be caused by proteins like aSyn that can misfold into abnormal shapes and lose their ability to function correctly or even wreak havoc in the cell.

Positional Plagiocephaly (PP), which includes flat head syndrome, is a condition in babies whereby their heads develop an abnormal shape usually due to external pressure, often related to the position that they sleep in.

In addition, the abnormal shape could affect blood flow to the fetus.

Studies in the laboratory also suggest that sperm with poor morphology also swim less well because their abnormal shape makes them less efficient.

Male infertility accounts for about 30 to 50 percent of all infertility cases, and infertile men tend to have abnormal sperm characteristics such as low sperm concentration, poor sperm movement, abnormal shape and size, and high levels of damage to the DNA.

But how that abnormal shaping of synapses translates to abnormal behavior is unclear.

In prion diseases, which include mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a normal cell protein, PrP, assumes an abnormal shape.

The U.S. Treasury yield curve takes an abnormal shape as companies like JPMorgan and Federated In...

The heart will have an abnormal shape and fluid in or around the lungs may be detected.

Hemivertebrae is an orthopedic disease in which at least one of the bones in your French Bulldog's backbone is deformed into an abnormal shape called hemi.

The choroidal vessels may be reduced in number and of abnormal shape.

It's generally visible due to the oversized head of the puppy, showing both an abnormal shape and size.

One of the causes of patella luxation is an abnormal shape of the distal end of the femur, resulting in a shallow patellar groove.