What's the difference between ankylose and ankylosis?
Ankylose
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Same as Anchylose.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.
(2) Within our ankylosing spondylitis (AS) population (n = 1331), 85% (n = 1128) had primary AS (1 degree AS), 9% (n = 121) had psoriatic AS (PsAS) and 6% (n = 82) enteropathic AS (IBDAS).
(3) Eighteen total hip replacements were performed in 10 patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
(4) Doppler echocardiography is a useful technique in the assessment of cardiac disease in ankylosing spondylitis and may detect aortic valve disease at an early preclinical stage.
(5) The association of ankylosing spondylarthritis with the B locus and more specifically with the B 27 antigen, is the closet known for any illness.
(6) This group includes the typical ankylosing spondylitis as well as atypical spondylopathies such as those occurring in psoriasis, Reiter's disease and chronic inflammatory enteropathies, which attack mainly the spine and secondarily the peripheral joints.
(7) The ankylosed spine may be fractured following relatively mild trauma attributable to loss of flexibility and increased fragility from osteoporosis.
(8) A 50-year-old woman with a 27-year history of ankylosing spondylitis developed cricoarytenoid joint arthritis that was indicated by hoarseness, sore throat, and vocal cord fixation.
(9) The combination of acute uveitis and ankylosing spondylitis with the tissue antigen HLA-B27 indicates that not only the spondylitis, but also the uveitis is in many cases genetically determined.
(10) A comparative controlled study was carried out in 40 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis or ankylosing spondylitis to assess the efficacy of ketoprofen and ibuprofen.
(11) In this controlled study the short- and longterm effects of whole body hyperthermia in ankylosing spondylitis were investigated.
(12) Sulfasalazine may be a safe and useful therapeutic modality in patients with chronic reactive arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis.
(13) Fifty-nine patients with HLA-B27 positive ankylosing spondylitis were HLA genotyped to look for immunogenetic differences between patients with associated peripheral arthritis and those with disease limited to the axial skeleton.
(14) We examined samples of serum from Japanese patients with unclassified uveitis, iridocyclitis caused by herpes zoster virus, Behçet's disease, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, sarcoidosis, or other conditions (sympathetic ophthalmia, Posner-Schlossman syndrome and acute anterior uveitis with ankylosing spondylitis).
(15) Serum samples from 45 unrelated Caucasian patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) were tested for correlation of serum IgA and six acute phase proteins: C reactive protein (CRP), alpha 1-antitrypsin, alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, caeruloplasmin, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), and haptoglobin.
(16) The modified New York criteria for the diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis were evaluated and compared to the older criteria in 151 patients, referred to hospital because of low back pain and who had a positive clinical history screening test for ankylosing spondylitis and in 31 controls with non-inflammatory back pain.
(17) This suggests that autoimmune responses to cartilage proteoglycans are unlikely to play a significant part in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis.
(18) Twenty-nine patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) were studied in an attempt to evaluate the role of T lymphocytes in this disease and a possible influence of treatment.
(19) Ankylosing spondylitis is a systemic rheumatic disorder characterized by inflammation of the spine, sacroiliac, and large peripheral joints.
(20) A similar degree of increased staining for rheumatoid factor activity was seen after pepsin digestion in all cases of rheumatoid arthritis and three of the ankylosing spondylitic cases.
Ankylosis
Definition:
(n.) Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint.
(n.) The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.
(n.) Same as Anchylosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the treatment of the temporo-mandibular ankylosis, the maintainance of separation between the temporal and mandibular raw surfaces, after osteotomy of the bony fusion, constitutes the key to the prevention of recurrence; the great potential of bone to reform is acknowledged by all those who are experienced in this problem.
(2) In the remainder of the skeleton, hip dysplasia with premature osteoarthritis, knee joint bony ankylosis and thoracic and thoraco-lumbar scoliosis are other undescribed findings.
(3) The present thesis focuses on the etiology, diagnosis, progression and prevention of dentoalveolar ankylosis.
(4) Masticatory stimulation during the healing period will maximize the area of functional PDM and minimize dentoalveolar ankylosis.
(5) The teeth were removed in tissue blocks, histologically processed and evaluated for occurrence of complete pulp revascularization (CPR), presence of the micro-organisms in the pulpal lumen and ankylosis or inflammatory root resorption.
(6) This is the first reported case of the use of cobalt 60 radiation for the prevention of recurrent TMJ ankylosis after repeated surgical treatment had failed.
(7) Evidence of cervical root resorption and ankylosis was noted on several teeth.
(8) Labyrinthine trepanation was performed in the majority of 16 patients with minor agenesis of middle ear involving either stapedovestibular ankylosis or absence of fenestra vestibuli.
(9) There were no cases of facial paresis and no recurrence of ankylosis.
(10) Patients with severe ankylosing spondylitis of long duration often have spinal osteoporosis secondary to ankylosis and immobility.
(11) Their iliac bone changes were identical, except for the occurrence of bilateral changes in the adolescent, and ankylosis of the sacroiliac joint in the adult.
(12) Under the conditions of the study, pretreatment of the tooth roots with 2 per cent acidulated sodium fluoride did not reduce root resorption and ankylosis.
(13) Four cases of unilateral temporomandibular (TM) joint ankylosis were successfully treated by metatarsophalangeal to TM joint replacement by microvascular technique.
(14) Ankylosis of the joint was observed in 41 (58%) cases and occurred between 7 to 12 months post op.
(15) Adequate excision of limiting scar and any bony ankylosis, with immediate mucosal or skin coverage of any raw surfaces created, is the proper approach.
(16) From the results, it was concluded that (1) an intrapulpal infection promotes marginal epithelial down-growth on a denuded dentin surface irrespective of tooth developmental stage, and that (2) the periodontal healing potential after calcium hydroxide-treatment appears to be higher in teeth with open apices compared with teeth with closed apices, where ankylosis was promoted as opposed to teeth with open apices where significantly more reparative cementum was found.
(17) The following histologic parameters were registered for each tooth: surface resorption, inflammatory resorption, replacement resorption (ankylosis), downgrowth of pocket epithelium, and periapical inflammatory changes.
(18) Features in our patient, which were not noted in previous reports of the disease, include gingival hypertrophy, ankylosis of joints, skeletal hyperostosis, and lymphatic dilation of the ileal villi.
(19) A case of bilateral temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ) ankylosis with a bifid mandibular condyle is reported.
(20) Arthroplasty is indicated in cast of fibro-osseous ankylosis, incorrectly consolidated fractures with the joint injury congruence disturbance, rheumatoid polyarthritis.