What's the difference between anatomy and vallecula?
Anatomy
Definition:
(n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
(n.) The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
(n.) A treatise or book on anatomy.
(n.) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
(n.) A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(3) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(4) The results obtained further knowledge of the anatomy of the nuclei, specifically the areas used for the prosthesis implantation and the underlying tissue.
(5) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
(6) The coronary arterial anatomy in 26 univentricular hearts, its relation to the morphologic characteristics of the ventricles and rudimentary chambers, and its surgical implications were analyzed.
(7) It is non-invasive and produces a permanent record of vascular anatomy and flow characteristics.
(8) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
(9) In terms of skeletal anatomy, a range of limb types was found.
(10) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(11) This clearing and staining procedure is thus readily applicable to comparative studies in anatomy, embryology and systematic zoology.
(12) An accurate description of the coronary anatomy is desired before anatomic correction of d-transposition of the great arteries.
(13) The diagnosis of cervical injuries may be facilitated by following a logical pattern of analysis searching for abnormalities of alignment and anatomy, of bony integrity, of the cartilage or joint spaces, and of the soft tissues.
(14) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
(15) As newer brain imaging techniques that are sensitive to function are developed, this line of enquiry holds considerable promise for furthering our understanding of the anatomy and physiology of emotion.
(16) This is a correlative study of normal anatomy of the lumbosacral spine and pelvis demonstrated by SPECT and radiography in order to assure that morphologic detail resulting from SPECT is recognized and matched with radiographic landmarks in the same area.
(17) A survey of pathogenesis, pathobiochemistry, pathological anatomy, clinic, diagnostics and therapy of the Zollinger-Ellison-syndrome is given.
(18) Fractal geometry offers a more accurate description of ocular anatomy and pathology than classical geometry, and provides a new language for posing questions about the complex geometrical patterns that are seen in ophthalmic practice.
(19) Results of crosses were consistent with the hypothesis that a single, incompletely dominant gene was acting, but further study of both the anatomy and heredity of the defect was deemed necessary.
(20) Lacrimal sac anatomy as determined by preoperative dacryocystography is an important prognostic factor in technically achieving surgical success.
Vallecula
Definition:
(n.) A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.
(n.) One of the grooves, or hollows, between the ribs of the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
(2) A case of hypopharyngeal carcinoma (in a 36-year-old man) is reported in which, after blunt dissection of the oesophagus via a posterior mediastinal tunnel without thoracotomy, the stomach was mobilized and its fundus anastomosed to the pharynx at the level of the vallecula.
(3) The valleculae epiglotticae are a definite oropharyngeal anatomical entity, and deserve the attention of maxillofacial surgeons, who should be able to suggest a surgical treatment of cancers that would be practicable both from a functional and from an oncological point of view.
(4) Our experience includes eight patients who had advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue base, vallecula, and the supraglottic larynx.
(5) The case is reported of a 64-year-old man in whom a pedunculated tumor of the Vallecula epiglottica occurred and was excised.
(6) In all of the occluded M1 portions of the MCA the flow void was absent and there were isointense linear structures, with or without a hyperintense component in the Sylvian vallecula, on T1-weighted images.
(7) The cancer spread may superiorly involve the epilarynx, the vallecula, the base of the tongue, and the pyriform fossa; however, inferiorly, the invasion of the glottis is quite exceptional (1 percent of cases); therefore, supraglottic laryngectomy is the operation of choice.
(8) By following the hyoepiglottic ligament, precise entry into the vallecula was routine.
(9) The tip of the McIntosh laryngoscope is inserted into the valleculae instead of loading up the epiglottis as is done with the normal laryngoscope.
(10) Results showed significant gains in pharyngeal transit times, amount of material aspirated, amount of residue in the valleculae and pyriform sinuses, and number of swallows required to clear the oropharynx.
(11) One tumour was found in the left vallecula in the hypopharynx and the other on the left vocal cord.
(12) Two cases arising in the pyriform fossa and vallecula are reported, both of which were associated with second primary malignant tumors: esophageal small cell carcinoma and palatal squamous cell carcinoma, respectively.
(13) Owing to the development of the opercula and resultant depression of the insula, after seven months of gestation the middle cerebral artery and its branches, begin to differentiate into the vallecular (related to the sylvian vallecula or fronto-temporal notch), insular (related to the insular cortex), opercular (related to the frontal, parietal and temporal opercula) and convexity segments (related to the convex side of the hemisphere).
(14) Dionosil more reliably defined the epiglottis, valleculae, and pyriform fossae.
(15) This paper describes an operation in which the mobilized stomach is transposed after blunt dissection of the oesophagus via a posterior mediastinal tunnel without thoracotomy to a position high in the neck, with anastomosis of the fundus to the pharynx at the level of vallecula.
(16) The report deals with a case of epidermoid carcinoma of the vallecula with widespread sebaceous differentiaton.
(17) Ingestion of liquid (which involved continuous accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae prior to swallowing) was associated with cycles of oral movement in which 02 was small; tongue retraction was associated with this opening.
(18) Videofluoroscopy showed abnormalities of varying severity, including unilateral bolus transport through the pharynx, pooling in the valleculae or pyriform sinuses, delayed pharyngeal constriction, and impaired tongue movements.
(19) There was no significant difference in transit times between right-sided and left-sided lesions except for the segmental interval from onset of bolus movement to arrival at the valleculae, which was significant at p = 0.05.
(20) A method of infiltration anesthesia is described whereby profound anesthesia of the base of the tongue, valleculae, and larynx can be achieved to allow suspension laryngoscopy.