On necropsy of a 24 months age Dutch female rabbit the uterine horns seems enlarged with a nodular appearance. On the cut surface of the uterus as well as heart wall, white firm masses with a cauliflower- like surface was observed. No other important gross lesions were found in other organs. In histopathological examination of the uterus typical microscopic changes were those of adenocarcinoma....

Degenerative changes are encountered relatively frequently in uterine leiomyomas. Morphologic changes within leiomyomas, particularly necrosis and alterations in cellularity, have been described following treatment with gonadotrophin releasing hormone analogue, but the effects of this form of treatment on the morphology of the normal myometrium are less well documented. A case is reported of a ...

Background Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease involving diarthrosis articulations. The evolution of the disease is very slow; the first changes regard the cellmatrix morpho-functional unit of articular cartilage called chondron by Benninghoff. The articular cartilage modifications are progressive from the superficial layer through the intermedial and the deep layer. Authors analyzed the u...

Introduction The incidence of degenerative osteoarthritis of the hip or knee joint and degenerative changes in the lumbar spine both increased with age. It was reported that lumbar lordosis and sacral inclination were related to the degree of extension of the hip, there may be an associated loss of lumbar lordosis. Many patients also have degenerative changes of the knee with loss of extension ...

The suffix 'osis' signifies 'a diseased condition' and hence nephrosis means a diseased condition of the kidney (Webster'sNew International Dictionary). The term nephrosis was used by Muller (1905) to differentiate what he considered degenerative renal disease from other renal conditions to which the term nephritis was applied. He pointed out that hitherto the word nephrosis had been used to de...