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Synonyms for stellate

arranged like rays or radii

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Eugene Lipov, an anesthesiologist and pain-management pioneer who found a secondary use of the stellate ganglion block as a way to treat hot flashes in women in 2003 in his Hoffman Estates clinic.
An ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block was performed with the patient in a 45-degree semi-Fowler's position.
In blind procedures like stellate ganglion blocks, the accidental injection of the anaesthetic agents to these ganglia might lead to sudden hypotension and even death if immediate medical intervention was not provided.
Although activated hepatic stellate cells (aHSCs) are the major source of myofibroblasts in the fibrotic liver, they are not the only precursors.
Schnapp, "Stellate ganglion "blocks" with morphine in sympathetic type pain," Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, vol.
Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) play an important role as a central component in the fibrosis process induced by alcohol consumption.
During this pathological process, hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are the main executor of fibrogenesis.
The tumor was composed of stellate cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm, indistinct boarders, oval nucleus with open chromatin, and indistinct nuclei in the background of a myxoid substance (Figures 4 and 5).
Liver fibrosis, the result of chronic liver injury caused by various factors, is characterized by overexpression and accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and is associated with the activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) [1, 2].
Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) have been shown to play an important role in the pathogenesis of fibrosis in chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer [3].
The latter was paucicellular formed by small, bland, spindle to stellate cells having indistinct cytoplasmic margins and hyperchromatic nuclei (Figure 1(b)).
The histopathological examination showed sheets of odontogenic islands lined by tall columnar cells enclosing stellate reticulum-like cells along with squamous metaplasia in the connective tissue stroma extending into the peripheral epithelium.
After the electrophysiology experiment, the canines were then euthanized, and the tissues of LRA, left stellate ganglion (LSG), and LA were harvested.