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Abduce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The flocculus receives afferents bilaterally from the superior, medial and descending vestibular nucleus, group y, the interstitial nucleus of the vestibular nerve and also from the abducent nucleus.
  • (2) In rats that had undergone nerve severance, NPY-immunoreactive fibers were detected at the cut ends of the abducent and trochlear nerve.
  • (3) They consisted of (1) an unusual trifurcation of the abducent nerve, limited to the extradural portion of the neural trunk (1.4% of the cases) and (2) the duplicity (11.1%) of the neural trunk, starting before reaching the orbit and ending before reaching the m. rectus lateralis.
  • (4) Nine out of these 19 patients showed facial palsy; 6 palsy of the oculomotor nerve; 2 palsy of the abducent nerve; and 3 both oculomotor and abducent nerve palsies.
  • (5) The trigeminal and abducent nerves were attached to the trigeminal artery by a congenital membrane.
  • (6) The peripheral pathway of the proprioceptive fibres has been shown to be exclusively along the oculomotor, trochlear and abducent nerves which are therefore sensorimotor.
  • (7) were: trigeminium nerve, 7.8 mm; abducent n., 15.2 mm; hypoglossus n., 21.4 mm; and glossopharyngeal n., 5.3 mm.
  • (8) The labelled cells were smaller than motoneurons and located in partly overlapping areas along the dorsal border of the oculomotor nucleus, with the RITC labelled cerebellar projecting cells concentrated medially and the Fluoro-Gold labelled neurons projecting to the abducent nucleus concentrated laterally.
  • (9) We report a case of intracranial chordoma revealed by an isolated abducent nerve palsy in a 4 years old boy.
  • (10) Significant differences were found between nerves in relation to their large fibres: Those of the abducent nerve had significantly thicker sheaths, those of the oculomotor nerve had significantly smaller axon perimeters, and the myelin sheath-axon perimeter relationship of the abducent nerve differed significantly from that of the other two.
  • (11) The oculomotor, trochlear, and abducent nerves of the rat were examined since they each contain distinct large- and small-fibre classes and are similar in a wide range of anatomical and developmental respects.
  • (12) Casuistic report of a neurological complication (left Abducent palsy) after spinal anesthesia.
  • (13) The rather marked cerebellar projection of the abducent nucleus, especially to the flocculus, is of interest for the analysis of cerebellar control of eye movements in the macaque.
  • (14) On admission, consciousness disturbance, bilateral abducent nerve palsy, and left caudal cranial nerve palsy was observed.
  • (15) These cells were more frequent in the middle part of the sinus and in the vicinity of the internal carotid artery and abducent nerve.
  • (16) This lesion involves the facial nerve nucleus, the abducent nerve, and the corticospinal tract.
  • (17) Lateral to the intracavernous segment of ICA 10-150 scattered or aggregated VIP- and ChAT-positive cells were found, with fiber connections to the ophthalmic nerve, the ICA, the abducent nerve and the sphenopalatine ganglion.
  • (18) In addition, parasympathetic and sensory fibers leave the confluence zone to follow the abducent and trochlear nerves backward to the basilar artery and tentorium cerebelli, respectively.
  • (19) The present findings demonstrate that oculomotor neurons projecting to the feline cerebellum and abducent nucleus represent separate cell populations.
  • (20) The amount present is variable; (4) the horizontal section of the internal carotid artery within the cavernous sinus runs a variable course in relation to the hypophysis and the lateral dural wall; (5) the oculomotor nerve lies within a meningeal envelope as far anteriorly as the tip of the anterior clinoid process; (6) the ophthalmic nerve communicates with the oculomotor, trochlear, and abducent nerves in the anterior part of the cavernous sinus; (7) the abducent nerve may lie within a meningeal envelope in the posterior part of the cavernous sinus; (8) the greater part of the sympathetic nerve plexus around the vertical part of the internal carotid artery passes into the abducent and ophthalmic nerves.

Adduce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phylogenetic and ontogenetic justifications for this organization are adduced.
  • (2) Tables of credible occurrence intervals for "nearly perpendicular" (the angle is tipped to the substrate plane by over 74 degrees) and for "nearly parallel" (the angle is tipped to the substrate plane by less than 12 degrees) centrioles in different samplings are adduced.
  • (3) But after almost three years of rigorous and sometimes brutal interrogation, no evidence has been adduced that he was guilty of any involvement in terrorism.
  • (4) Such data for main hindlimb nerves of the cat are adduced.
  • (5) In the present Note it is argued that much of the data which Pizzuto & Caselli adduce is irrelevant to the specific hypotheses they are evaluating and that those data which are relevant fully support parameter-setting and linguistic-theoretic models, contrary to their claims.
  • (6) The central importance of the subthalamic nucleus in all three conditions is proposed, and supportive evidence for the excitatory nature of subthalamic efferent fibres is adduced.
  • (7) The block diagram of algorithm of the automated system operation is adduced, search algorithm of characteristic points is described in detail, the fundamental correlations are presented.
  • (8) Evidence for the existence of such Ca-cages is adduced from the properties of the [Ca(phosphatidate)2] complex.
  • (9) Estimation of the risk of cancer following exposure to ionizing radiation remains largely empirical, and the models used to adduce risk incorporate few, if any, of the advances in molecular biology of the past decade or so.
  • (10) Evidence is adduced to suggest that the inhibitory effects on Renshaw cells following stimulation of semicircular canal afferents were mediated directly, i.e.
  • (11) This stimulation can be adduced with a high degree of probability to the inhibition of organisms which have an antagonistic effect on N-binding bacteria.
  • (12) The authors adduce motives for the need of periodic fiber gastroscopic control of operated patients, aimed at early prophylaxis of primary cancer of the gastric residue.
  • (13) Evidence has been adduced to indicate the presence of a single high affinity binding site with a dissociation constant of 1.4 x 10(-9) M. A single subunit has been identified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate with an estimated molecular weight of 26,000.
  • (14) More importantly, several examples of oncogene cooperation in vivo are adduced by these experiments.
  • (15) Subsequently, some examples are adduced to show during which centuries of the Middle Ages a fear of future diseases of the children was wide-spread and during which centuries contacts among men and children in the course of their early years were especially close.
  • (16) A hypothesis is presented and evidence is adduced to show that high-risk areas of multiple sclerosis are related to the ability of the soils of the locality to obtain and fix molybdenum perferentially to copper.
  • (17) Partly in response to the Bowraville case, and following changes to the law in England, the NSW parliament in 2006 passed amendments to the Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act allowing for the retrial of an acquitted person where, in serious cases, there is “fresh and compelling” evidence that had not been “adduced” in the proceedings which saw the accused acquitted.
  • (18) Functional overlapping between non-cholinergic and cholinergic nuclei in the peribrachial region are noted and some correlations adduced.
  • (19) Reasons are adduced to explain why patients who were deemed suitable for transfer to other care had not been discharged from hospital.
  • (20) Studying the 16-ene-synthetase reaction in human testicular homogenates, we adduced evidence for the hypothesis that ADL is synthesized from P5 in a single step, not requiring separate intermediates.

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