(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.
Venus
Definition:
(n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
(n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
(n.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(2) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(3) But Venus has been seen supporting Serena from the stands.
(4) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
(5) I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite."
(6) An African woman sold into slavery, Baartman was brought to London in 1810 as the "Hottentot Venus" and exhibited as a freak of nature in London and France.
(7) Polanski's film is an adaptation of the successful play by David Ives about a theatre director (played by Mathieu Amalric) who is looking for an actress to play the lead role in a stage version of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's notorious 1870 novella Venus in Furs.
(8) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
(9) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(10) He began by offering three level 2 apprenticeships, which involved spending about 20 hours a week on site in the residential home, and 10 hours a week offsite with training provider Venus.
(11) The fundamental problem when intellectuals and MPs get together is always the same: politicians are from Mars; thinkers are from Venus.
(12) Venus and Serena Williams crash out in first round as Czechs post huge upset .
(13) It could be a melancholic experience, reflecting the state of the left in general – clipping off the mastheads at the end of the week of all the unsold copies of Weekly Worker , International Communist Current and Lalkar , making odd smelling vegan drinks for the older members of the co-op, ringing up a number left by someone who'd ordered Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus to tell them their book had arrived and finding that it had been ordered by a person now deceased.
(14) The five-times champion Serena Williams suffered a distressing exit from Wimbledon on Monday as she was forced to retire after three games of a doubles match with her sister Venus, suffering from a viral illness that left her groggy, disoriented and barely able to hit the ball.
(15) His two recent theatre adaptations, Carnage and, now, Venus in Fur revive these techniques, turning the limitations of theatre to his advantage.
(16) Robson almost stole the thunder of Venus Williams, who beat her sister Serena in straight sets in a high quality contest in windy conditions in yesterday's final to take her fifth Wimbledon singles title and seventh Grand Slam in all.
(17) One clue is provided as to why Hitler might have owned Cupid Complaining to Venus: in 1939 a British journalist, Ward Price, noted that Hitler had a Cranach in the Munich flat, and that it had recently been given to him as a 50th birthday present by the regional commander of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.
(18) Nights are a chillier story with frost likely by midweek, and clear skies in which the apparent cosying-up of Jupiter and Venus is currently a striking sight.
(19) From Earth, you can observe a small black disc – Venus – slowly wandering over the sun over the course of several hours.
(20) Simultaneously, other sources of error affecting test reliability, such as presence of dimples of Venus, relationship of skin distraction to movement of underlying structures, and upper level of Schöber skin landmarks were also considered.