What's the difference between cacuminal and retroflexed?
Cacuminal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.
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Retroflexed
Definition:
(a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.
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(1) Bony anomalies encountered in the 'no neck' form of Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) are a wide, short, fused, bifid, retroflexed spinal canal; craniolacunia, cranium bifidum, and acrania.
(2) 8 of the 50 had a retroflexed uterus and 2 of those were displacement cases, suggesting that anomaly of position could be a predisposition for ectopia.
(3) Each subject, by means of computerized stabilometric platform, has been submitted to the sensitized test with head retroflexed.
(4) Most perforations occur at the time of insertion; insertion during the early postpartum period or during the period of lactational amenorrhoea, or in the case of an undiagnosed pregnant uterus or an acutely anteflexed or retroflexed uterus can be the cause.
(5) The head is not retroflexed, and the tongue is not supported by an endoscope as in direct laryngoscopy.
(6) During a period of 18 months with a history of chronic pelvic pain symptomatology (severe dysmenorrhea, severe dyspareunia, extramenstrual pain) retroverted or retroflexed uterus, and infertility were subjected to laparoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes as well.
(7) Prior ultrasound of this area was significantly limited by bowel loops anterior to the retroflexed uterine body and cervix, which were displaced cephalad out of the pelvic inlet and were not seen.
(8) This tracing technique labeled, in a Golgi-like manner, the neurons which initiate the fasciculi retroflexes and revealed details of their morphological pattern.
(9) This case report presents a full-term pregnancy in a retroflexed uterus.
(10) An insufficiently full bladder, a retroflex uterus, echoes caused by the intestine, and obesity made the ultrasonic scanning more difficult.
(11) The features of interest are sonorant, syllabic, consonantal, high, back, front, and retroflex.
(12) We describe a fetus with hydrocephalus and the cranial and cervical findings of iniencephaly (enlarged foramen magnum, fusion of the upper cervical vertebrae, and a retroflexed, webbed neck) who had an unusual palatal abnormality ("palatal anteversion").
(13) Finally, the retroflexed uterine position does not appear to increase the risk of abnormal outcomes.
(14) Two cases of retroflexed holoprosencephaly are presented.
(15) A tortuous retroflexed innominate artery can simulate a right apical mass.
(16) Secondary dysmenorrhea means pathological organic alterations of the genital tract: uterus myomatosus, endometrial polyps, endometriosis, and retroflexed uterus.
(17) The fetus remained fixed in the same position with the head retroflexed during each consecutive exam.
(18) Examination revealed a retroflexed uterus with the cervical opening pointing toward the anterior abdominal wall.
(19) The GIF-P2-prototype with four-way tip control and ability to retroflex 180 degree up, 60 degree down, and 100 degree right and left was superior to GIF-P1 and CF-P-prototype for visualization of the entire esophagus, stomach, duodenal bulb, and postbulbar area in patients less than 10 years old.
(20) The common phenotypic features of this syndrome include growth failure and mental or developmental retardation, hypotonia, persistent lanugo, distorted head, congenital glaucoma, short and upturned nose, prominent maxilla, micrognathia, short, webbed neck, short limbs, retroflexed third and fourth toes, cutaneous syndactyly of the second, third and fourth toes, and elevated galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase activity in the red blood cells.