(a.) Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(2) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
(3) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(4) Most of these patients had undergone hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy.
(5) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(6) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(7) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(8) The H reflex response was found in the anterior tibialis muscle, at least unilaterally if not bilaterally, in eight of nine subjects with Huntington disease and in five of eight persons at risk.
(9) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
(10) These findings suggest that conditioned circling is mediated by a bilateral involvement of the mesotelencephalic dopaminergic systems.
(11) The effect of Y-516 on the hyperactivity induced by dopamine injected bilaterally into the nucleus accumbens was compared with those of clocapramine (CCP), haloperidol (HPD) and chlorpromazine (CPZ).
(12) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(13) The same dose of clonidine evoked a much larger drop in blood pressure in another group of rats in which an equialent increase in blood pressure was produced by bilateral section of the vagosympathetic trunks and occlusion of both carotid arteries.
(14) Radio-iron utilization was nearly normal in these patients, only bilateral nephrectomized patients showed a reduced radio-iron utilization.
(15) Most of the bilateral lung lesions were removed through a median sternotomy so as to avoid staged bilateral thoracotomy.
(16) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
(17) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
(18) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
(19) Before this report of 2 cases there were 22 cases of asynchronous bilateral renal cell carcinoma in Japanese literature.
(20) A high index of suspicion of bilateral tumors and a thorough work-up resulted in the early diagnosis of small tumors.
Radial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zool.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(2) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(3) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(4) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(5) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
(6) Yet in 4 patients in whom no aortic late systolic pressure wave was apparent (group II), nitroprusside did not alter the difference between aortic and radial systolic pressures.
(7) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
(8) The assay systems include : viral infectivity, complement fixing activity, particle counts, radial diffusion titre and single radial haemolysis titre.
(9) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(10) Peak pressures measured with the RP probe decreased to congruent with50 mm Hg and radial pressure asymmetry vanished.
(11) We report the case of a man with atypical pain and X-rays modifications of the radial tubercle.
(12) The Fel d I RIA was compared with a radial immunodiffusion technique for the determination of allergen levels in several cat extracts and a good quantitative correlation was found.
(13) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
(14) In a third experiment, animals were trained 16 days in the same maze configuration and at day 17 they were exposed to the mirror image of the radial maze.
(15) IgE levels in nude mice were estimated by the one-step single radial radiodiffusion method antisera prepared by immunization of guinea pigs with an IgE-rich fraction obtained from sera of normal mice infected with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and immunized with DNP-ovalbumin in alum gel.
(16) To investigate the topography of the clear zone, we performed four- and eight-incision radial keratotomy in eight cadaver eyes.
(17) The mean values of radial and ulnar components for each pair of homologous fingers separately are also compared.
(18) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
(19) In 20 out of 32 infants (63%), complete occlusion of the radial artery occurred.
(20) The kininogen level in human serum was estimated by single radial immunodiffusion.