What's the difference between cavity and foramen?

Cavity


Definition:

  • (n.) Hollowness.
  • (n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
  • (2) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (3) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
  • (4) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (5) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (7) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
  • (8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (9) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (10) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
  • (13) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
  • (14) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
  • (15) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
  • (17) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
  • (18) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
  • (19) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
  • (20) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.

Foramen


Definition:

  • (n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The complete facetectomy (36 observations) exposes the foramen well but has a little risk of destabilisation.
  • (2) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
  • (3) Progressive narrowing of the bulboventricular foramen is documented in four patients with single ventricle.
  • (4) CT brain scans showed an enlarged foramen magnum in the mother and daughter but magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed no brainstem abnormality in either.
  • (5) Since fractures of the foramen triosseum are usually not surgically repairable, they can be stabilized with coaptation splints.
  • (6) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
  • (7) The septum primum, as the valve of the foramen ovale, has been previously described as a mobile, echogenic line or dot in the left atrium.
  • (8) The authors described a fluoroscopic method of guiding percutaneous needle penetration of the foramen ovale.
  • (9) The average thickness of the corpus callosum at the level of the foramen of Monro was 6 mm in normal subjects and was reduced below 6 mm in 16 of the hydrocephalus patients.
  • (10) Hydrocephalus and valvular impaction of the cerebellum in the foramen magnum were demonstrated.
  • (11) With systole there is downward (caudal) flow of CSF in the aqueduct of Sylvius, the foramen of Magendie, the basal cisterns and the dorsal and ventral subarachnoid spaces while during diastole, upward (cranial) flow of CSF in these same structures is seen.
  • (12) The cecal foramen pointer was invented for a Sistrunk median cervical cyst operation.
  • (13) Enlargement in an adjacent conjugating foramen forms a tumour which may narrow the spinal canal (1 case diagnosed by CAT) or erode the vertebral body, so compromising the spinal support.
  • (14) The earliest perfect ring-shaped formation of the foramen ovale is observed in the 7th fetal month and the latest in 3 years after birth.
  • (15) Arterial oxygen tension was lower in patients with a patent foramen ovale (mean 55 [SD 14] vs 62 [16] mm Hg, p = 0.038).
  • (16) Body weight was not correlated with foramen magnum area in 25 specimens of savannah sparrow, Ammodramus sandwichensis.
  • (17) The common tumors originating in the jugular foramen are chemodectoma and schwannoma.
  • (18) They are determined primarily by (a) the pulpal response of an immature tooth to trauma, and (b) the mechanical difficulties encountered when attempts are made to obturate the root canal of a tooth with a widely patent apical foramen.
  • (19) Successful penetration of the foramen was achieved in 39 of 46 injections on cadavers and in six injections on five patients.
  • (20) A patient with symptomatic oscillopsia without downbeat nystagmus, who was diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging to have displaced cerebellar tonsils below the foramen magnum, is presented here.