(1) The effects of blinding and anosmia were effectively reversed by pinealectomy.
(2) A performance average on the two tests yields a composite score on a scale from 0 (anosmia) to 7 (normosmia).
(3) Melatonin produced no effects in intact animals whereas in rats with either peripheral anosmia or bulbectomy it reduced the weight of body, accessory sexual glands, and prostates.
(4) The Kallmann's syndrome is a rare nosological phenomenon characterized by hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia.
(5) The results suggest that the inhibition of the Bruce effect in LOT-transected females is not due to anosmia induced by the operation procedure, but due to interruption of the primary olfactory bulb projections to the posterior parts of the olfactory cortex.
(6) Except for some vague symptoms and reports of anosmia, no significant abnormalities were found in the clinical examinations.
(7) and 22.6% cases of T. Total anosmia was present in 5(6.61%) cases of L.L.
(8) Four individuals with anosmia alone were found in this family, but no further cases of hypogonadism.
(9) Of the 39 patients who had anosmia preoperatively, 46% reported the restoration of their sense of smell.
(10) Furthermore, in both sexes, anosmia does not impair the response to direct interaction with the sexual partner.
(11) Rarely these neoplasms will demonstrate a more aggressive behavior with extracranial extension and symptoms of upper airway obstruction or anosmia.
(12) The effects of bilateral olfactory bulbectomy, sham-operation and inducement of peripheral anosmia were studied on locomotor activity, passive avoidance acquisition and irritability.
(13) In seven cases (two patients after septoplasties and five after septorhinoplasties) the author found permanent anosmia (in one case he found the steroid dependent anosmia).
(14) This disorder is characterized by coexisting hypothalamic hypogonadism and hyposmia or anosmia due to hypothalamic and olfactory center hypoplasia.
(15) All males continued to display typical cycles of copulation with their partners after the anosmia procedures, with the shortest latencies to ejaculation occurring during the periovulatory phase of the partner's ovulatory cycle.
(16) Noradrenaline depletion of the olfactory bulbs induces cannibalism at parturition in primiparous mice, without producing anosmia or impairment of maternal behaviour.
(17) It may be a truly isolated disorder but can also be the predominant element of a more diffuse neuropathy provoking, more particularly, ageusia and anosmia.
(18) Findings included anosmia, hyposmia, mirror movements, ocular motor abnormalities, cerebellar dysfunction, and pes cavus foot deformity.
(19) After testing olfactory function by means of a simple odor identification test, anosmia was confirmed in only one patient, since the other two patients were able to distinguish between several odorants.
(20) A conditioned smell aversion procedure was used to assess the occurence and duration of anosmia after the topical application of zinc sulfate to the olfactory mucosa.
Deafness
Definition:
(n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
(n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.
Example Sentences:
(1) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.
(2) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
(3) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
(4) There is no reason to describe deafness and deafmutism in an area with severe endemic goitre as a separate entity.
(5) The next implanted device will have: a. constant current; b. programming of a particular current value for each electrode; and c. stimulation of the cochlear nerve through an extra cochlear electrode bearer, allowing deep implantation without deafness.
(6) Bangkok Centre serves the Asian countries on the Global Programme on Prevention of Hearing Impairment and Deafness.
(7) We performed light and electron microscopic studies on the temporal bones of a patient with genetic aplastic deafness, in which the right ear had a Mondini-type defect and the left ear a Michel-type anomaly.
(8) Prenatal causes of sensorineural hearing loss in children may be genetic or nongenetic, the deafness occurs alone or with other abnormalities.
(9) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
(10) Progressive unilateral sensorineural deafness and tinnitus developed in a 59-year-old woman over a 1-year period.
(11) Older hearing controls (14-16 years) matched the deaf group in span and tended to recall most accurately written syllables which are not easily lipread.
(12) Results from 12 diagnostic subtests obtained by Van Uden's sample of profoundly deaf children and a Manchester sample with wider ranges of age and hearing loss were analysed by the Q-technique of factor analysis.
(13) This group is analysed and it is suggested that some may be diagnosed as suffering from central deafness.
(14) Two patients, presenting with signs and symptoms of cerebellar dysfunction, later developed evidence of brain-stem disease with dysarthria, nystagmus, deafness, and internuclear ophthalmoplegia.
(15) On the other hand, if past experience is anything to go by, this government isn’t shy of a U-turn ; and, if Whittingdale and his advisers aren’t completely deaf, they may at least detect that he would do well to keep the relish out of his voice as he announces the steps he intends to take.
(16) Vestibular destruction was associated with deafness in only 3 of the patients.
(17) Chronic serous otitis media was a frequent finding but deafness was rarely profound.
(18) Especially the erectile tissue of the submandibular and parotic glands and recidiving sudden deafness are discussed.
(19) We discuss these findings in relation to pathologic observations in other reported cases of congenital deafness.
(20) These supplementary criteria should make identification simple, allow an abnormal response to be recognized and indications for treatment of the temporary deafness to be better defined.