What's the difference between arachnoid and araneose?
Arachnoid
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.
(a.) Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.
(a.) Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.
(n.) The arachnoid membrane.
(n.) One of the Arachnoidea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
(2) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
(3) Within the arachnoid mater the immunoreactivity was concentrated in the basal zone of the arachnoid membrane, thus appearing as a narrow fluorescent band near the border of the dura.
(4) True arachnoid cysts of the suprasellar region are uncommon and have rarely been diagnosed pre-operatively.
(5) Four mechanisms for the formation of ectopic meningioma have been suggested: (a) direct extension of an intracranial lesion; (b) distant metastasis from an intracranial meningioma; (c) origin from arachnoid cells within the sheaths of cranial nerves; and (d) origin from embryonic nests of arachnoid cells.
(6) A series is reported of 9 cases of supratentorial arachnoid cysts in children under the age of 14 years.
(7) The second patient had optic nerve involvement as well as two intracranial parenchymal lesions and granulomatous arachnoiditis.
(8) The association of an arachnoidal cyst in the middle cranial fossa with a subdural haematoma or intracystic bleeding is emphasised.
(9) In addition, it proposes a modification of the standard dural closure that may reduce the incidence of contributory adhesive arachnoiditis by the creation of a capacious cerebrospinal fluid space about the neural plaque.
(10) Subarachnoid alumina may be a good model for human arachnoiditis.
(11) The delayed appearance of syringomyelia after a severe single spinal trauma resulting in contusion of the spinal cord without the complication of arachnoiditis is a more recent issue, but is now well-known.
(12) Many thousands of arachnoid villi subtend all the membranes from the intrathecal space, and many of these end in the large epidural veins.
(13) SSFP MR images helped markedly in diagnosis of hemorrhagic, epidermoid, and arachnoid cysts.
(14) The main causes are Potts Disease, arachnoiditis, tropical spastic paraplegia, trauma, lathyrism and cord compression.
(15) The author evaluates the dynamics of immune reactivity of the body in patients with cerebral arachnoiditis with consideration of main clinical syndrome--hypertensive-hydrocephalic, epileptiform, autonomic-vascular dystonia syndromes in different variants of the course of the process.
(16) This observation relates a case of spinal arachnoiditis with paraplegia, for a 56 year old patient hospitalized for a S.A.H.
(17) These findings suggest alternative drainage pathways for CSF besides the arachnoid villi (Pacchionian bodies) including connections with lymphatics in the neck and along the olfactory nerve, and around the cribiform plate to the nasal submucosa, and with proptosis, perhaps also through the aqueous humor-canal of Schlemm and nasolacrimal duct.
(18) Gross morphological features of cystic larvae, complex arachnoid cysts, granulomatous abscesses, basal meningitis and mineralised nodules correlated closely with the images obtained, especially on MR, where resolution permitted visualisation of larval protoscolices.
(19) CT scan demonstrated an arachnoid cyst in the left Sylvian fissure.
(20) The authors report long-term results in 17 patients with surgically treated congenital intradural spinal arachnoid cysts.