What's the difference between calix and calyx?

Calix


Definition:

  • (n.) A cup. See Calyx.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under fluoroscopic control a lower polar calix was punctured with 18 G sheathed needle; a guide wire was introduced through the sheet.
  • (2) Intravenous urography reveals the presence of a persistent lacuna in a calix or of the pelvis, radiologic evidence of the abnormal papilla.
  • (3) The indications for percutaneous removal of calculi in caliceal diverticula depend on two aspects: it should be possible to puncture the caliceal diverticula via by a short parenchymal route coaxial to the axis of the calix and, if the intercostal approach is used, a pleural lesion must be excluded.
  • (4) These anatomical data confirm that the dorsal calix is the route of choice in the percutaneous approach to the kidney.
  • (5) In their number parenchyma-avoiding fistulization of the kidney through the renal pelvis, erroneous choice of a calix to be punctured which resulted in the acute angle position of the canal axis to the calculus thus making its removal impossible or inconvenient; supermedial access to the kidney and transparent puncturing of the calices increasing surgery-related traumatism and the risk for hemorrhages.
  • (6) Especially, calix showed a clearer contrast than those obtained with Urografin.
  • (7) With this method in 24 cases we have dislocated 9 pelvic-stones, 13 calix-stones and 3 upper ureteral stones which could not remove themselves.
  • (8) Extreme lipophilicity of the receptor molecules is therefore required: calix crown ethers and calixspherands meet these requirements.
  • (9) The obstruction developed following removal of the nephrostomy tube at the infundibular outlet to the calix where the tube had resided.
  • (10) Percutaneous electroresection of the tumor was performed after puncture of an inferior (3 patients) or middle (1) calix and dilation of the nephrostomy tract up to 30F.
  • (11) Calix afferent fibers generate depolarizing DC (direct current) and superimposed AC (alternating current) potentials in response to a vibrating stimulation of the hair bundle in an isolated preparation of a chicken semicircular canal ampulla.
  • (12) The renal pelvis is the most common site, but the lesion can be localized, even if rarely, in a calix or in the ureter.
  • (13) The stone-free rate was dependent on the site of the stone, with the majority of residual fragments lying in a lower pole calix.
  • (14) The diagnosis of tuberculosis was confirmed by epididymal biopsy, by intravenous urography which revealed a cavity in a left superior calix and above all by the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at bacteriological urine examination.
  • (15) Stenting failed in 4 patients and in 1 patient caused rupture of a calix.
  • (16) A new application with the rigid ureteropyeloscope was used to remove a ureteral stone that had migrated into a lower renal calix.
  • (17) The axis of the dorsal calix follows the avascular line and passes to the lateral border of the paravertebral muscles, avoiding the left and right colon.
  • (18) Of 170 patients who underwent percutaneous nephrostolithotomy, 61 had stones located in a calix.
  • (19) The radiological study is the basis of the diagnosis, when the diverticular cavity is refilled late, when the contrast of the same is drained slowly and when there is a communication with the pelvis or calix, hence the importance of the late plates.
  • (20) The lower calix is responsible for a significant number of kidneys with residual stone fragments after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL*).

Calyx


Definition:

  • (n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.
  • (n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results, together with information from the amino acid sequences, infer that the native carotenoid, astaxanthin, is bound to each apoprotein within an internal hydrophobic pocket, or calyx.
  • (2) The involved calyx is punctured directly and dilatation performed to the stone without negotiating a wire into the renal pelvis.
  • (3) The host cannot encapsulate the parasitoid egg owing to the suppressive effect of the polydnavirus-laden calyx fluid injected by the female parasitoid during oviposition.
  • (4) A small population of nonadrenergic, VIPI nerves innervates the renal calyx.
  • (5) Flexible ureterorenoscopy is valuable for diagnosis of filling defects in the lower calyx and for treatment of stones in the upper and middle ureter.
  • (6) A sparse plexus of VIPI nerves innervates the rat renal calyx.
  • (7) Two antimicrobial fractions were obtained from the sponge Calyx podatypa from the Bahamas.
  • (8) The optimum photographing time was 15 minutes in the upper urinary tract (nephrogram, calyx, pelvis, upper ureter) and 20 minutes in the lower urinary tract (lower ureter, urinary bladder).
  • (9) It could be shown that nucleus and calyx may have a monomineral as well as a polymineral structure.
  • (10) A dense plexus of SPI nerves innervates the rat renal calyx.
  • (11) For example, in the cerebellum it recognizes myelinated axons and the calyx formed by basket cell axon collaterals.
  • (12) The smooth muscle and myofibroblast-like cells presumably assist expression of urine from the papilla and calyx, and possibly participate as pacemakers for the urinary tract.
  • (13) From September 1988 to April 1989, 400 patients with stones in the calyx (40%), in the renal pelvis (45%), in the ureter (15%) and with staghorn calculi (5%) underwent shock wave treatment.
  • (14) The rhabdom of isolated small photoreceptors is surrounded by a calyx originating from the soma, so that it appears to be located internally.
  • (15) The vestibular sensory epithelia contain two main types of hair cell innervation; bouton-innervated hair cells and calyceal hair cells characterized by a surrounding nerve calyx.
  • (16) The importance of selective arteriography and the interpretation of the "naked calyx" sign in the diagnosis of supernumerary renal arteries has been emphasized.
  • (17) If a fine deformity of calyx is shown on intravenous pyelogram, magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates renal scarring.
  • (18) Proper placement of the percutaneous nephrostomy tract through a posterior middle calyx and of a guidewire across the ureteropelvic junction is necessary in order to gain access to the narrowed area with a rigid cutting instrument.
  • (19) Subsequent to the elaboration of the activation calyx, the contents of cortical granules are released (cortical reaction) into the perivitelline space.
  • (20) Surrounding baculovirus occlusion bodies is an electron-dense layer reported to be composed of carbohydrate which we term calyx.

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