What's the difference between basioccipital and occipital?
Basioccipital
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young.
(n.) The basioccipital bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Marked cupping at the basioccipital-exoccipital synchondrosis was observed in three.
(2) An additional variant is added to the subgroup of nasopharyngeal cephaloceles, the basioccipital nasopharyngeal cephalocele, which only recently has become recognized.
(3) In contrast to some authorities, the authors believe the occipital condyle to originate from the basioccipital and the exoccipital of the occipital bone.
(4) These areas include the anterior neurocranium and basicranium, the basioccipital, and the anterior palate.
(5) The tissue persists in the adult on the three elements on which it previously developed, i.e., infrapharyngobranchial III-IV, parasphenoid, and basioccipital bones.
(6) The anterior half of the female basioccipital portion is wider and smoother than in the male skull.
(7) After ossification, the place where the notochord enters the basioccipital is marked by a cavity.
(8) Double-stained preparations of bone and cartilage showed cranio-facial anomalies and axial skeletal anomalies: a- or hypogenesis of palatine or maxillary bones, tympanic ring, squamosal temporal bone or otic ossicles in cartilage, and fusion of basioccipital to basisphenoid and maxilla, zygomatic and mandibular bones; a- or hypogenesis of caudal vertebrae and supernumerary thoracic and lumbar vertebrae.
(9) This paper presents light-microscopical details of the late development of skeletal tissues at the joint between upper pharyngeal jaws (UPJs) and neurocranial base (parasphenoid and basioccipital bones) in the acellular-boned teleost Astatotilapia elegans.
(10) The percentage reduction in the basisphenoid was twice that in the basioccipital bone and of the same magnitude as that previously observed in the long bones of the limbs.
(11) It is also argued that the hyaline-cell cartilage attached to the perichondral bone of the basioccipital (a cartilage bone), could also be viewed as secondary.
(12) Associated cranial abnormalities observed in various numbers of fetuses included ventriculomegaly, the "lemon" sign, a flat basioccipital, "beaked" tectum, and bone defect.
(13) The vertebral and condyloid arteries form a plexus on basioccipital bone (plexus basioccipitalis).
(14) In a subsequent detailed analysis of severely affected animals, malformations of the basioccipital bone, the atlas, and the axis were observed.
(15) An extremely rare case of a basioccipital meningocele causing obstruction of the upper airway in a neonate is described.
(16) At necropsy, there was gross and histologic evidence of congenital fusion of the basioccipital bone to the malformed atlas.
(17) Sexual differences in the basioccipital portion of the skull of dogs have been described and an index is presented which reliably predicts the sex of the skull.
(18) With minimal surgical invasion, we used either the opening of the craniopharyngeal duct to access the chiasmatic cistern or the suture between the basisphenoid and basioccipital bones to access the interpeduncular cistern.
(19) Two cases of rare basioccipital clefting are reported.
(20) Marked sclerosis and deposition of osteopetrotic bone was noted along the anterior (but not posterior) occipitomastoid suture (n = 8), at the basioccipital-exoccipital synchondrosis (n = 9), and along the sphenooccipital synchondrosis (n = 8).
Occipital
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone.
(n.) The occipital bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pons, on the other hand, has a bioelectrical activity of its own during PS, i.e., the ponto-geniculo-occipital spikes (PGO).
(2) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(3) It was concluded that the spheno-occipital complex has a close relationship to the skeletal facial pattern and contributes to the facial formation.
(4) Beta 1 activity increased during the first 10 min of KB in occipital and to a lesser degree in parietal regions.
(5) Four had partial simple seizures with secondary generalisation and 3 had cortical excisions (2 frontal, 1 occipital lobe) surgery.
(6) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
(7) Imagining faces was also the only condition that led to an increase of activity in the left inferior occipital region which has been suggested by previous studies as being a crucial area for visual imagery.
(8) There were no differences in brain metabolic rates in lateral cortical areas (frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes).
(9) And the maxima of the alpha-power and of the alpha-peak-power are mostly located parietal instead of occipital.
(10) 5-Hydroxyindolacetic acid levels were particularly high in the occipital area and decreased along the caudorostral axis.
(11) Selective angiography revealed a scalp AVM fed by bilateral superficial temporal and right occipital arteries.
(12) Fewer labeled cells appeared after parietal, temporal or occipital cortex injections.
(13) Familial occipitalization of the atlas with atlantalization of the axis was defined as a single congenital disease in Arabian horses following a clinical, radiologic, and morphologic study of 16 horses with congenital malformations of the occiput, atlas, and axis, and from a study of three reported cases.
(14) Neutral aminopeptidase activity showed a significant decrease in the thalamus and cerebellum with marked (not significant) changes in the hypothalamus, hippocampus, medulla, and occipital cortex.
(15) In AD, a significant twofold increase was observed in total APP mRNA in nucleus basalis and locus ceruleus neurons but not in hippocampal subicular neurons, neurons of the basis pontis, or occipital cortical neurons.
(16) From the survey of another 21 patients having bony abnormalities at the craniovertebral junction, the first type of arterial anomaly described above was seen in 4 patients and associated with failure of segmentation of the embryonic sclerotome such as occipitalization of the atlas or Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(17) Task relevance increased the within-subject and condition variability of this occipital positive component and this effect was greater for boys without than with RD, particularly over the left hemisphere.
(18) The shapes of scapulae and basi-occipital bones from three genetically distinct achondroplastic mutants and one osteopetrotic mutant in the mouse (achondroplasia, brachymorphic, stumpy and grey lethal), and appropriate controls, have been compared using Fourier analysis and multivariate statistical techniques.
(19) Encephalocele is the most common cause of occipital midline extracranial mass associated with hydrocephalus.
(20) In this study the morphology of the lateral geniculate nucleus and occipital cortex in rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM Ac)-induced micrencephaly was examined.