What's the difference between anterior and protraction?

Anterior


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.

Protraction


Definition:

  • (n.) A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.
  • (n.) The act or process of making a plot on paper.
  • (n.) A plot on paper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AL-ST works with another dose distribution in time than the conventional brachytherapy, so a higher fractionation of high-dose-rate afterloading is substituted for the classical protraction of low-dose-rate brachytherapy.
  • (2) Whereas a protracted inhibitory activity is observed in haemophiliacs after replacement therapy (isoantibodies) as well as in acquired haemophilia (autoantibodies), immediate inhibition is characteristic of antibodies directed against phospholipids.
  • (3) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
  • (4) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
  • (5) A high responsiveness to SCW antigens was seen more frequently in sarcoidosis patients with protracted clinical course.
  • (6) A downward protraction force produced relatively uniform stress distributions, indicating the importance of the force direction in determining the stress distributions from various orthopedic forces.
  • (7) Reports in the literature suggest a poor prognosis in the presence of this complication, because of protracted renal damage and chronic renal failure.
  • (8) However, in the majority (53%) of patients, late recurrence was local and survival subsequent to treatment of these metastases was often protracted, emphasizing the importance of long-term follow-up in all patients with cutaneous melanoma.
  • (9) According to data in the literature the hormetic effect comprises stimulation of the immune system, a general increase of the resistance of the organism, a reduced risk of cancer and in model organisms a protraction of the median life span was observed.
  • (10) Human cancers undergo protracted complex development from benign to malignant states, as most thoroughly documented in the mole-to-melanoma sequence.
  • (11) Pouch young are born prior to retinal innervation of the primary visual centers and spend a protracted period of development in the pouch, making them ideal for visual, developmental studies.
  • (12) They say an increasing number of “protracted refugees” living in centres in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will attempt the treacherous journey to Europe because they cannot offer their families a life or a future in the camps.
  • (13) The duration of the pre-ejection period of the systole, the Q-Kd interval and Achilles tendon reflex was protracted.
  • (14) Initial clinical trials utilized a daily schedule of administration, which led to severe and protracted myelosuppression and inadequate evaluation of the antitumor spectrum of mitomycin-C.
  • (15) Immature granulocytes would not exit through a restrictive barrier even after protracted periods and were not responsive to chemoattractants.
  • (16) The predominant clinical characteristic of this complication was protracted pancytopenia, which required 2 to 5 months recovery time after treatment and did not resolve in one patient.
  • (17) RBE values increased as dose was protracted, largely due to the reduced effectiveness of protracted gamma irradiation; however, about 28% of the increase can be attributed to the increase in neutron-induced injury caused by dose protraction.
  • (18) I have not known any time in my half century in this business in which we have had this many simultaneous, complex and protracted crises, of no solution right now.
  • (19) Within each layer deriving from the cortical plate (layers VIa to II-III), GABA-immunoreactivity showed a protracted maturation in which the first GABA-positive cells were detected a few days after cell birth but substantial numbers of neurons began to express GABA considerably later.
  • (20) Dose response curves for acute and protracted exposures have been obtained for cells derived from patients with cancer-prone syndromes including ataxia telangiectasia (AT) and Bloom's syndrome.