Sentence examples for longstanding as from inspiring English sources

It was therefore anticipated that 18 F-fluoride uptake might also occur in active mineral deposition associated with degenerative spine disease (as exemplified in Figure 2), especially as patients with established, longstanding AS were included in this study.

However, Arnold et al. described a case with an AL in longstanding AS in which bone scintigraphy did not demonstrate an increased uptake [ 16].

Apart from syndesmophytes and ankylosis of the spine resulting in rigidity, in longstanding AS, also focal destructive discovertebral lesions (Andersson lesion (AL)) can occur, also known as ALs [ 6, 7].

Or it might be more chronic (longstanding as opposed to severe) – referred to as tendon disarray or degeneration.

Given the SNP's opposition to all things nuclear is as longstanding as its support for independence - the UK's Trident missile submarines, based on the Clyde, would be sent "doon the watter" to England.

Since types are usually thought to be universals, the debate over whether they exist is as longstanding as the debate over universals, and debaters fall into the same camps.

There are longstanding feuds as well as friendships.

We found p53 gene mutations in LGD and even in regenerative crypts of longstanding UC as well as high-grade dysplasia (HGD) and invasive carcinoma, but they did not always coincide with protein overexpression.

Some of the portrayals pulled free of longstanding tradition as well.

Stopping to help those in distress is also seen, as the IMO says, as "a longstanding maritime tradition" as well as a moral obligation on the ship's master.

"AOL has been a longstanding partner, and as far as I know, they are quite happy with us.