What's the difference between aphasia and ectasia?
Aphasia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Aphasy
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(2) Patients with severe aphasia or cognitive impairment who could not communicate well enough for the administration of depression rating scales were excluded.
(3) Among these associated neurological features, only aphasia and apraxia were present in mildly demented cases with sufficient frequency to suggest utility as diagnostic signs early in the course of the disease.
(4) Moreover, on the basis of the results of accumulated lesions on 127 cases with various types of aphasia, the highly involved sites were determined as Broca's area, Wernicke's area and conduction area, and the sizes of the lesions in each area were also determined.
(5) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
(6) Hemiplegia and aphasia, when present, usually regressed within a few months.
(7) For fluency (from the Western Aphasia Battery), subcortical structural damage had direct and indirect (through frontal lobe) effects on the behavior.
(8) In eleven cases the aphasia was due to cerebrovascular disease and in the remaining four cases to traumatic injury to the brain.
(9) Of the four primarily cortical deficits assessed, three (visual field abnormalities, neglect, and aphasia) showed a highly significant graded relationship to the cardiac risk groups.
(10) In reviewing the literature, it was found that these patients were similar to those reported with progressive aphasia.
(11) During the technical and clinical work with the PicBox program we have had the reason and possibility to reflect on the relation between aphasia, language and thinking.
(12) The meaning of the emotional reaction shown by left brain-damaged patients seems easy to understand, if we consider that these subjects are affected by aphasia and by a paresis of the right hand.
(13) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(14) We have made a detailed neurolinguistic study of a patient with motor aphasia.
(15) The extent and severity of his global aphasia were unchanged.
(16) The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare form of acquired childhood aphasia associated with convulsive disorder.
(17) Attention is drawn to the existence of this rare form of aphasia and to the lack of appropriate educational facilities for aphasic children in general.
(18) The patient had an episode of aphasia 15 years ago, but recovered within 6 months.
(19) Clinical manifestations may include transient aphasia and weakness of the limbs with pyramidal signs.
(20) We report here the result of neuropsychological evaluation in a case of associative visual agnosia evolving to optic aphasia.
Ectasia
Definition:
(n.) A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.
Example Sentences:
(1) All patients with coronary ectasia were males, except one female with FH.
(2) Quadrantectomy centered around the discharging duct, is the procedure of choice in this disease, at the interface between diagnostic and treatment, in fact, if benign tumors (papillomas) or non tumoral diseases (fibrocystic mastopathy and duct ectasia) predominate, invasive or in-situ malignant lesions represent 13 p. cent of these 46 discharges, justifying the significance of this clinical sign.
(3) At necroscopy these angiographic findings were histologically proven as necrosis of the arterial wall with destruction of the elastic lamina, causing local vascular ectasia.
(4) Venous ectasias and varices which can be encountered, associated with DVA constitute an acquired feature in relation to a venous outlet obstacle.
(5) Of these only five had "pure" or isolated ectasia, whilst 18 had ectatic disease combined with coronary artery stenoses.
(6) Of 249 patients with nipple discharge, breast nodularity and duct ectasia was the cause in 75 percent.
(7) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
(8) The clinical presentation is variable: excluding annulo-aortic ectasia, the other features of dystrophic aortic regurgitation are less well known.
(9) Despite the clinical similarities, the ultrastructural aspects of these lesions are different, showing: (1) ectasia of arteriolar type, (2) budding of capillaries, and (3) ectasia of venular type.
(10) All the three conditions are associated with duct ectasia.
(11) A case of ectasia of the descending thoracic aorta in a patient with Takayasu's disease is presented.
(12) Strong and weak sulfate baths produce certain increase in amount and in area of the lymphoid noduli with the germinative center, in the deep cortex and a decrease in the relative area of the medullary substance, while iodobromine baths facilitate to an outgrowth of the medullary cords and to ectasia of sinus lumens.
(13) They may appear in the form of vascular ectasia or neoformations of vessels, the most characteristic aspect of which is the formation of vascular glomerules.
(14) Epicardial artery disease, as suggested by the marked coronary artery ectasia, may be linked to the slow dye progression and predispose to coronary artery thrombosis.
(15) Six patients with annuloaortic ectasia and one with type 1 aortic dissection underwent the operation.
(16) Aortic annulo-ectasia should be investigated in patients with aortic valve endocarditis and early surgery would be advised to prevent aortic dissection.
(17) Because the arterial ectasia decreased in size after the extracranial to intracranial bypass surgery, this operation might be useful for space-occupying lesions due to arterial ectasia.
(18) We conclude that the patient with annuloaortic ectasia must be observed for a long-term after operation.
(19) Hepatic lesions were observed in mice killed between 8 and 40 hr after dosing and included diffuse sinusoidal congestion with mild sinusoidal ectasia, leucostasis, multifocal cytoplasmic vacuolation and necrosis of individual hepatocytes.
(20) These experiments establish the role of hydrocortisone in the induction of aortic rupture in a mouse with genetic susceptibility and the induction of aneurysms and ectasia in normal mice.