What's the difference between anesthesia and hemianesthesia?
Anesthesia
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Anesthetic
Example Sentences:
(1) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(2) Trismus may be a complication from local anesthesia.
(3) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
(4) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
(5) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(6) Using 3H-labeled dextran, uveoscleral outflow was quantitated in normotensive and glaucomatous Beagles under general anesthesia.
(7) EMLA cream, usually used for skin surface analgesia, was tested as an adjunct to anesthesia in dermabrasion.
(8) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(9) The cardiorespiratory effects of trichloroethylene supplementation of nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia, with simultaneous use of halothane at induction as needed, were studied in outpatient oral surgery patients undergoing dental extractions under general anesthesia.
(10) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(11) Management may be by regional anesthesia or primarily medical.
(12) Oral Guedel airways do not necessarily protect the patient's teeth during inhalation anesthesia.
(13) Nitrous oxide (N2O) is frequently used for maintenance of anesthesia in research animals because of its minimal effect upon circulatory variables and the ability to rapidly alter its anesthetic concentration.
(14) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
(15) Changes of circulating blood volume during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia were investigated by the dual indicator dilution method in eighteen mongrel dogs.
(16) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(17) The risk of postoperative cerebrovascular accident did not correlate with age, sex, history of multiple cerebrovascular accidents, poststroke transient ischemic attacks, American Society for Anesthesia physical status, aspirin use, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, intraoperative blood pressure, time since previous cerebrovascular accident, or cause of previous cerebrovascular accident.
(18) Delirium on emergence from anesthesia was not encountered.
(19) The choice of drugs during anesthesia and per-operative resuscitation are discussed in this article together with particular situations such as pheochromocytoma in pregnancy or the per-operative discovery of a previously unrecognized pheochromocytoma.
(20) Aponeurotic ptosis repair may be performed under local anesthesia, and past reports have suggested that operative lid position may be used to predict the final result.
Hemianesthesia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) From a semiological point of view, they may be: (i) isolated, (ii) associated with neurological symptoms (ophtalmoplegia, hemiplegia, hemianesthesia...).
(2) The most common clinical features of TIAs caused by carotid insufficiency are hemianesthesia and hemiparesis; other symptoms in these cases include headache, dysphasia, and visual field distrubance.
(3) All these patients were hypertensive, rapidly became comatose and exhibited hemiplegia, hemianesthesia and gaze preference contralateral to the hemiplegia.
(4) Neurologic evaluation revealed a dense right hemianesthesia that included the face, trunk, arm, and leg.
(5) We suggest that the combination of hemianesthesia and aphasia indicates a white matter lesion subjacent to inferior parietal and posterior temporal cortices.
(6) A right-handed woman developed left homonymous hemianopia and left hemianesthesia from infarction due to right posterior cerebral artery occlusion.
(7) These AVM's had a tendency to bleed intracerebrally and typically presented with hemiplegia, hemianesthesia, and hemianopsia.
(8) Both established the "persistent frank organic hemianesthesia" (sensory-sensitive for Charcot, pure sensitive for Dejerine), namely that a sensory deficit, still severe after regression of the early hemiplegia, could be due to focal brain damage.
(9) In three right-brain damaged patients with contralesional neglect vestibular stimulation induced a temporary remission of left hemianesthesia, in addition to the well-known transient recovery of extrapersonal and personal neglect.
(10) The description by Meynert in 1871 of a transcapsular direct "sensory bundle" and the cases reported by Türck in 1859 of a sensory-sensitive hemianesthesia after a posterior capsular lesion (in fact, thalamo-capsulostriate) led Charcot to develop his theory after 1873.
(11) Twenty patients had hemiparesis, and 14 had hemianesthesia.
(12) All patients had contralateral homonymous hemianopia or hemianesthesia.
(13) We report a patient with an ischemic stroke in the vascular territory of the right middle cerebral artery who had left spatial neglect and left hemianesthesia.
(14) The clinical manifestations of thalamic hemorrhage frequently comprise hemiparesis, hemianesthesia, and oculomotor abnormalities.
(15) Hemianesthesia may be severe at onset but is usually transient.
(16) In 30 patients with a thalamic vascular lesion and clinical somatosensory disturbances in the opposite hemibody without hemiplegia, four nosological groups were identified: group 1 had no central pain but complete hemianesthesia and loss of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) on the affected side (analgic thalamic syndrome).
(17) This indicates that there was processing of undetected stimuli without the patient's awareness, and suggests that the hemianesthesia was due, at least in part, to somesthetic hemi-inattention.
(18) In patients with spatial hemineglect, hemianopia and hemianesthesia may be manifestations of the neglect syndrome (visual and somatosensory hemi-inattention), rather than representing primary sensory deficit.