(1) In the infant and small child, when most repairs are done, nose tip projection is due more to the alar dome component than to the columella.
(2) We conclude that the alar plate of the prosencephalon at 7-10 stage is not definitively determined and may retain an ability to differentiate into the optic tectum, whereas the prospective fate of the rhombencephalon has already been determined at 7-10 stage.
(3) Functional loss of the alar ligaments indicates a potential for instability which, however, must be determined in conjunction with other clinical findings, such as neurological dysfunction, pain and deformity.
(4) Conflicting guidelines for excisions about the alar base led us to develop calibrated alar base excision, a modification of Weir's approach.
(5) After transection of the left alar ligament, the percentage increases in neutral zones (NZ) and ranges of motion (ROM) were documented at both the C0-1 and C1-2 joints.
(6) For the same joint, cutting of the left alar ligament resulted in a significant increase in neutral zone in right lateral bending but not in left lateral bending, whereas there were no significant increases in the ranges of motion.
(7) The CD system using sacral pedicle and alar screws in the adult patient does not appear to offer advantages over alternative techniques for achieving arthrodesis to the sacrum for adult deformity.
(8) Comparing right and left axial rotations, after transection of the left alar ligament, showed greater percentage increases for the right, as compared to the left, axial rotation, at both C0-C1 and C1-C2 joints.
(9) In this case, there was bony avulsion of the alar ligament from the occipital condyle.
(10) In such cases, full-thickness resection of the alar bases is necessary.
(11) In the craniocervical joint, the alar and transverse ligaments provide much of the stability of the healthy spine.
(12) The removal of ear cartilage is performed via a posterior approach for the concha cartilage associated with a septum or an alar cartilage removal.
(13) Both the transverse and the alar ligaments consist of collagen fibers, with very few elastic fibers in the peripheral layer.
(14) Ruptures of the alar ligaments were typically involved in extended ruptures of the ligamentous apparatus (see Figure 6a involving the ligamentum apicis dentis, ligamentum transversum atlantis, m.atlanto-occipitalis anterior, m.tectoria, m.atlanto-axialis anterior et posterior).
(15) Where the inferior view shows a "tent tip" skyline, lateral crus advancement is required and can be achieved in asynchronous repairs by Pigott alar leapfrog at primary repair or by Potter V-Y advancement at the time of forked flap columella lengthening.
(16) Results of directly excising the alar rim and its indications are presented with adequate follow-up.
(17) This result does not agree with the long-held hypothesis that axial rotation is limited only by the alar on the side opposite rotation.
(18) The facial artery terminated as an angular facial artery in 34 (68%), a lateral nasal vessel in 13 (26%), and a superior labial vessel in 2 (4%); in 1 (2%) the facial artery terminated at the alar base.
(19) The purpose of this in vitro experimental study was to determine the role of alar ligaments in providing flexion, extension, and lateral bending stability to the upper cervical spine.
(20) Increases due to subsequent cutting of the right alar ligament were, on average, only 0.5 degrees and statistically not significant.
Malar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.
(n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a man who presented with Reiter's syndrome and a new prominent malar rash.
(2) A rare case of mandibular, malar and vertebral tuberculosis is reported.
(3) Malar rash, arthritis and fever were the most common presentations, as in previous studies.
(4) Unusual syndrome-specific facial features shared by the two include abnormally large midface, very high-set and widely placed eyes, retrusive and asymmetric upper alveolar region, very small malar bones, and long mastoid processes.
(5) We report on a Japanese girl with short stature, malar hypoplasia, up-slanting palpebral fissures, blue sclerae and thin, stiff and slightly brownish hair.
(6) In an attempt to improve visibility and safety in the surgical approach to the malar arch and jaw joint, anatomical dissections of 56 facial halves were undertaken.
(7) While proposing new miniaturized material the authors present 45 cases of fronto-malar osteosynthesis carried out in one year.
(8) These include eyelid laxity with or without atrophic orbicularis muscle tone, lax canthal tendons, hypoplastic malar eminences, unrecognized Graves' ophthalmopathy, unilateral high myopia, or the secondary blepharoplasty.
(9) A simple maneuver for assessing malar depression is described.
(10) Coronoidectomy, systematically bilateral, demonstrated these morphological anomalies together with formation of coronoido-malar neo-arthrosis.
(11) Wide subperiosteal undermining in primary surgical correction of labio-maxillary clefts not only enhances the osteogenic activity of the periosteum but in addition, if the exposure is extended from the superior limit of the ascending maxillary process and the nasal bone to the inferior orbital rim above the infra-orbital foramen and the malar eminence, good suppleness of the overlying muscles can be achieved.
(12) Systemic lupus erythematosus was subsequently diagnosed, when malar rash, arthritis, leucopenia, anti-native DNA and anti-Sm antibodies appeared.
(13) A Teflon sled, Proplast malar implant and ptosis correction acheived the desired results.
(14) It is postulated that the use of autogenous materials in malar augmentation can give acceptable results and obviate the inherent risks associated with the use of alloplastic materials.
(15) The parietal bone served as a harvest site, without morbidity, for autologous bone used to fill in the defects in the orbit and anterior malar wall in the live canine model.
(16) Two brothers are described with a similar physical appearance characterised by minor periorbital anomalies, malar flatness, a maxillary overbite, retrognathia, sloping shoulders, joint hyperextensibility, and minor radiological anomalies.
(17) We found out that, cause of the anatomical structure of malar bone region, only three types of plates are necessary to treat every kind of malar bone fracture of males and females.
(18) The ones with velopharyngeal insufficiency tended to have more severe soft tissue and skeletal deformities of the maxillary-malar complex, associated with a total unilateral palatal paralysis.
(19) Measurements were made on the pursuit rotor and quantitative Romberg tests, and of skin temperature, heart rate, malar flush and blood alcohol concentration during the prealcohol baseline period and at regular intervals over the 4-hour drinking period.
(20) P.F.C.-HA implants can be made for replacement or restoration of facial bones not submitted to important forces like the frontal or malar bones.