What's the difference between anterior and lingula?

Definition:

(a.) Before in time; antecedent.
(a.) Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior.

Example Sentences:

(1) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(2) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
(3) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(4) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(5) A topographic relationship was recognized between the MM and the anterior thalamic nuclei.
(6) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
(7) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(8) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(9) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(10) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(11) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(12) Anterior borderzone brachial paralysis (ABBP) is a hemodynamic ischemic syndrome of the watershed zone between the anterior and middle cerebral arteries.
(13) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
(14) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
(15) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(16) For this purpose the blood flow velocity in the internal carotid artery, basilar cerebral artery and the anterior cerebral artery was measured by pulsed Dopplersonography before and 5-10 min after i.v.
(17) The 2A8 clone, a normal diploid rat anterior pituitary cell strain, was investigated by immunocytochemistry to determine the cell types into which the clonal cells differentiated in vivo and in vitro.
(18) Accordingly, the present studies were conducted to determine whether acute OVX-induced FSH hypersecretion can be elicited in an animal model in which the anterior pituitary gland is isolated from diencephalic chemical signals, and if so, whether the hypersecretion could be abated by the FSH-suppressing protein, follistatin.
(19) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(20) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.

Lingula

Definition:

(n.) A tonguelike process or part.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix.

Example Sentences:

(1) Part of the fibers was mixed with the spheno-mandibular ligament and attaches on the lingula of the mandible.
(2) Using both a morphometric and a semiquantitative grading system (r = 0.80), we noted that both fibrosis and pulmonary vasculopathy were more evident in the lingula than in either of the 2 other lung segments (p less than 0.05 ANOVA, Newman-Keul test).
(3) These strongly suggest that the fibrous structure of organic matrix assists the orientation of apatite crystals in Lingula unguis shell.
(4) The regional distribution of [3H]etorphine binding sites in the rabbit cerebellum points toward concentrations higher in the neocerebellum (hemispheres) than in the archecerebellum (lingula and flocculonodular lobe).
(5) A previously unreported pattern of MAC-PD was observed: disease limited to the lingula or middle lobe occurred in 21% of the patients, all female.
(6) Collapse of the left lower lobe is sometimes accompanied by linear atelectasis in the lingula.
(7) The lavage was performed two months after radiotherapy, in the anterior part of the lingula (left side) or of the right middle lobe (right side), depending on which side had been exposed to radiation.
(8) The lingula was exposed sterilely through a left thoracotomy.
(9) The amino acid sequence of the beta chain of hemerythrin from Lingula unguis was determined.
(10) A well-circumscribed nodular mass was excised from the lingula of the left lung of a 40-year-old-female.
(11) Measurements were made to locate vertically the point of fusion of the buccal and lingual cortical plates relative to the lingula and to the depth of the sigmoid notch.
(12) The modified nucleoside, 7-(4,5-cis-dihydroxy-1-cyclopenten-3-yl-aminomethyl)-7-deazaguanosine, designated as Q, and its derivative, Q*, were found in tRNA's from various organisms, including several mammalian tissues, other animals such as starfish, lingula and hagfish, and wheat germ.
(13) This was not a function of vessel size, since the overall cumulative distribution curve of percent muscle divided by length of internal elastic lamina was also shifted between lingula and lower lobe.
(14) Meckel's cartilage appeared as a single, continuous fibrous structure lying between the mandibular lingula and the malleus of the middle ear in fetuses of 210 mm crown-rump length (22 weeks of age) and over.
(15) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
(16) Subsegmental bronchi of the left inferior lingula were seen in only 17%, but other subsegmental bronchi in greater than 75%.
(17) The middle lobe was the most common site of bronchiectatic involvement, followed by the lower lobes and the lingula.
(18) Even in a normal-sized mandibular ramus, a high lingula places the medial cut in a thin region where there is little or no cancellous bone.
(19) In 20 of the nonimmunocompromised patients, computed tomography was performed prior to biopsy, and demonstrated no particular tendency for greater involvement of the lingula or right middle lobe.
(20) An increase in the identification rate of the segmental bronchi of the middle lobe and lingula was achieved only after reducing the slice thickness from 8 mm to 4 mm, the yield being now 87% (512 image matrix) and 82% (256 image matrix), respectively, whereas the remaining segmental bronchi could be made to show up almost without exception.