A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.
They are sometimes composed of material which gives the amyloid reactions.
In amyloid disease of the kidney the quantity is usually small, and serum-globulin may be present in especially large proportion, or even alone.
The tissue residues left after extracting the amyloid constituent, as above described, were subjected to acid hydrolysis.
The original seed tissues, therefore, contain an amyloid and a hemicellulose, the latter differentiated in its resistance to water.
The presence of new connective tissue, amyloid degeneration, abscesses, or tumors should not be overlooked.
The organ should be opened by a longitudinal cut and examined for evidences of acute or chronic inflammation, fat-necrosis, tumors, calculi, and amyloid degeneration.
The cells represented in division B are amyloid concretions, found where there is an enlarged prostate gland.
The considerable quantity of starch or amyloid bodies, elaborated by these inquiline symbiontes, as well as their protoplasm and nucleus, are available, on their death, for the nutrition of the Radiolaria which harbour them.
The amyloid concretions of Thalassicolla nucleata have been described in detail in my Monograph (pp.
Degeneration of the muscular tissue: Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica or Nerve Rheumatism, Atrophia, Amyloid heart, kidney and liver.
A special group of muscular diseases consists of amyloid (fatty) degeneration of vital muscle substance, as for instance of the heart, the kidneys, the liver.
Amyloid degeneration is often combined with wasting diseases, such as atrophy, tuberculosis and dropsy.
These primary growths include primary papillomata and fibromata as the most frequent, aberrant thyroid, lipomata, adenomata, granulomata and amyloid tumors.
Amyloid tumors are occasionally met with, and are very resistant to treatment.
To these may be added the fatty degenerations associated with amyloid and interstitial processes.
Eberth[35] maintains that in all cases theamyloid disturbance is seated in the connective tissue.
These appearances have given rise to the term waxy degeneration, which suggests a possibility of confusion with the earlier recognized waxy degeneration of organs, due to the presence of amyloid material.
Again, chronic suppurative processes, especially those due to disease of the bones and joints, are a frequent antecedent of amyloid degeneration.
Although so little is known of the immediate cause of amyloid degeneration, its distribution in the various organs of the body is fully ascertained, as well as certain of the conditions which are likely to be followed by its presence.
In amyloiddegeneration there is the transformation of the cell-protoplasm into an albuminous material different from other albuminates found in the body.
It is to their disturbance of function that the pathological importance of amyloid degeneration is to be especially attributed.
The waxy transformation of muscular fibre, however, does not present the reaction with iodine characteristic of amyloid substance.
After an apyretic period of six weeks, during which the symptoms of the amyloid visceral disease persisted, a sudden and rapidly fatal pyrexia occurred.
Fatty liver agrees with amyloid liver in that the fatty deposits increase the size and weight of the organ.
As is well known, the amyloidmaterial itself resists the action of the gastric juice.
The weight of the amyloid liver may reach ten, twelve, even sixteen pounds avoirdupois.
From cancer, amyloid liver is separated by the previous history, by the nodular character of the enlargement, by the pain, and by the cachexia and associated derangements.
He has shown, contrary to the previously-accepted view, that amyloiddegeneration may follow in three months after the reception of a gunshot wound.
It is known that this deposition of the amyloid material is related to the process of suppuration and to certain cachexiae, but the intermediate steps remain unknown and inexplicable.
Lardaceous (amyloid or waxy) degeneration of the intestinal mucous membrane is met with in chronic catarrh.
The history of the amyloid disease and of the echinococcus cyst is very different, and both {1040} develop much more slowly.
By amyloid liver is meant a deposit in the cells of the organ, in its vessels and interstitial tissue, of a peculiar albuminoid matter called amyloid because of a superficial resemblance to starch-granules.
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