(n.) A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.
(n.) A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear.
(n.) A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish
(n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morphometric investigations of capillaries in the muscle fibers have been carried out in the atrial walls, in the right and left auriculae.
(2) Most frequently in these patients a prolapse of the mitral valve is found, a foramen ovale patents, an aneurysm of the atrial septum, sometimes thrombi in the left auricula atrialis of an otherwise quite normal heart.
(3) The occipital belly is also active during smiling and yawning, and can be active during the movements of the auricula.
(4) We studied carefully and first of all systematically size, form and condition of the auricula.
(5) Follow-up of 103 patients with squamous cell carcinomas of the auricula showed that 20 of them developed regional lymph node metastases.
(6) Asymptomatic papular lesions had appeared on the dorsum of both of his feet 30 years earlier, then extended gradually and symmetrically to his hands, arms, legs, trunk, and auriculae.
(7) Concave autogenous cartilage from the upper part of the concha auriculae trimmed in three pieces to protect attic, mastoid, and middle ear for graft retraction has been successfully used in 106 surgical procedures.
(8) Rhinoplasty cases require use of a cartilaginous graft from the concha auriculae.
(9) In the rat hearts with healed infarctions the amount of polyploid nuclei was increased both in the myocytes of the auricle and of the auricula atrii.
(10) The magnesium concentration in skeletal muscle was found to correlate with that in right auricula (r = 0.46, p less than 0.01) and right atrium (r = 0.43, p less than 0.01), whereas values in serum and lymphocytes showed no correlation with the heart's magnesium content.
(11) Particular otologic findings were a non-progressive inner ear hearing loss bordering on deafness, a fungus-covered cell detritus in the cartilaginous part of the external ear canal, and hyperkeratosis of the auricula.
(12) For the investigation the skin area 2 X 2 sm large has been chosen on the internal surface of the right concha auriculae 6 sm below the upper edge of the ear.
(13) On the third postoperative day the myocytes of the myocardium of senescent rats weighing 300-430 g proliferated in the left auricular appendage (mitotic index--from 1 to 5.1%) and in the right auricula appendage (in one of 8 cases, mitotic index 4.2%).
(14) Muscle specimens were obtained from right auricula of patients undergoing open-heart surgery.
(15) The pathogenesis of bluetongue infection was studied by the titration of the virus in tissue samples taken from sheep inoculated subcutaneously in the auricula of the ear with 76 TC ID50 of the plaque-purified type 10 bluetongue virus.
(16) In the myocytes of the auricula atril the amount of the labeled nuclei peaked on the 5th day, and that of mitoses--on the 7th day.
(17) The uptake in vitro of 3H-noradrenaline in irides and heart auriculae, as well as the noradrenaline terminal density in the dilator plate and surrounding blood vessels in the iris, were unaffected by repeated capsaicin treatment to developing rats.
(18) By means of the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HP) method sensitive innervation of the rabbit concha auriculae skin has been studied.
(19) These terminals constitute the afferent link of the pathway that accounts for the analgesia obtained after electrical stimulation of the concha auriculae.
(20) The noradrenaline level in the iris was significantly increased (+42%), while no significant changes in noradrenaline level were observed in heart auricula or superior cervical ganglion.
Valva
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Experimental and clinical data suggest that the valva ileocaecalis under neurogenic and hormonal influences, modulates antegrade and retrograde flow of succus entericus.
(2) The hypothesis to be tested was, can anatomical and functional integrity of the valva ileocaecalis be preserved during the performance of a right hemicolectomy with reestablishment of intestinal continuity via a cecocolostomy?
(3) Radiographic analysis of the heterotopic valva ileocaecalis revealed intermittent antegrade and no retrograde flow of contrast material, which suggested functional integrity.
(4) Function of the heterotopic valva ileocaecalis was assessed 6-12 weeks post-operatively employing radiographic criteria (fluoroscopic analysis after intraluminal instillation of barium sulfate).
(5) The cardiac embolism etiology subgroups are associated with the presence of personal history of stroke, just as the mitral valva prolapse (MVP) patients group.
(6) The indication of surgical valva replacement also at older age (greater than 60 years) with chronically rheumatic valvular diseases requires both the assessment of the pre-operative constellation of findings and perioperative complications.