(a.) Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations.
Example Sentences:
(1) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
(2) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(3) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(4) Anatomic and roentgenographic criteria used for the assessment of reduction in ankle fractures are highlighted in this review of ankle trauma.
(5) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(6) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
(7) The anatomic and functional development of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was studied in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
(8) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(9) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
(10) Nonetheless, anatomical continuity was restored at the site of injury, axons projected across this region, and rostral spinal and brainstem neurons could be retrogradely labelled following HRP injections administered caudal to the lesion.
(11) Although no anatomical 'barrier' has been described, it has been suggested that the gel mucus and epithelial phospholipids are constituents.
(12) Precise excision of the masses was thus accomplished and functional and aesthetic reconstruction aided by the conservation of normal anatomical structures.
(13) Even if it does not always provide the solution to a particularly delicate problem, which is often of vital importance, it provides data which, modifiable and better used, should provide an adequate notion of the anatomical and physiopathological state in aortic stenosis.
(14) This is due to the fact that the SPECT images contain more anatomical and physiological information than similar planar images.
(15) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
(16) The anatomic information provided by aortography was of great value in the surgical management of patients with AAA, but aortography was of limited value in accurate measurement and should not be employed for this purpose.
(17) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(18) This contrasts sharply with the reduction in both the frequency and surface area of sensory neuron active zones that accompanies long-term habituation, and suggests that modulation of active zone number and size may be an anatomical correlate that lies in the long-term domain.
(19) This contrasted sharply with the markedly increased occurrences of anatomic abnormalities in these body regions of the sirenomelia and VATER patients.
(20) We describe a computer program for stereotactic surgery planning based on multimodality imaging and the display of intracranial EEG data in relation to anatomical data.
Bougie
Definition:
(n.) A long, flexible instrument, that is
(n.) A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The median time to intubation with the gum elastic bougie while simulating an 'epiglottis only' view was only 10 s longer than the time taken during conventional intubation with an optimum view.
(2) Instrumental investigations with catheters, bougies and endoscopes are important to diagnose urological diseases in children.
(3) Balloon dilation was not satisfactory in 2 patients (2 per cent) but it was accomplished by metal bougies.
(4) Bougie dilatation was continued at widening intervals for 18 months after the ingestion.
(5) Anal dilatations with bougies were effective in short stenoses which were present in 7% of cases.
(6) Before this procedure the esophagus had been dilated - in 31 cases with our new multistage bougie.
(7) The ureter was dilated with a ureteral bougie, and a 13F or 14F Storz ureteroscope was inserted.
(8) All these stenoses were curatively treated with the ESKA-Buess multiple-diameter bougie.
(9) The woman required several bougie and laser treatments.
(10) Patients were treated by dilatation (either pneumatic or mercury bougies) or surgery.
(11) Perforation, the major risk of dilatation, is now rare (0.22% out of 909 dilatations with Savary-Gilliard bougies).
(12) Several tubes are not discussed due to previous development in the literature or specialty purposes limited to diagnostics: esophageal manometry, Levin, Salem sump, gastrostomy tubes, bougies, dilators, the Dreiling tube and the Rubin-Quinton tube.
(13) Urethral calibration with bougie à boule, uroflowmetry and urethral pressure profile were performed before urethral dilatation and 1 week after the last dilatation.
(14) Dilatation of the esophagus with Savary-Gilliard bougies and using of the guide wire are considered a safe and many-sided method in the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal strictures.
(15) Treatment of the anal fissure consists in slow dilatation with a bougie in cases of acute fissues if the sphincter internus muscle is not highly spastic, in cases of chronic or very painful acute fissures a posterior or lateral sphincterotomy should be performed.
(16) The advantages of bougie versus balloon dilatation and the need for postdilatation stenting to preclude restricturing are analyzed.
(17) A case is presented of mediastinal abscess secondary to esophageal perforation after bougie dilation that evolved favorably with antibiotic treatment and without surgical drainage.
(18) The technique affords a better view of the procedure because of a wider visual angle and because the field of vision is not blocked by the bougie, as would be the case with the rigid endoscope.
(19) In these cases transduodenal sphincteroplasty is recommended instead of only treating with a bougie or dilating the papilla.
(20) For TUL, following the insertion of a guide wire and dilatation of the intramural ureter by ureteral bougie, a ureteroscope was introduced into the ureter.