(n.) The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Example Sentences:
(1) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(2) CT scanner findings suggest the association of a massive demyelination of centrum semiovale, with cerebral oedema.
(3) Centrum semiovale (CSO) CT attenuation numbers decreased with increasing age for both white and grey matter.
(4) The densest and most oriented bone was found in the superior and inferior sections of the posterior-lateral centrum, whereas least dense and least oriented bone was found in the central third of the anterior centrum.
(5) On the contrary, after electroacupuncture we have not found methionine-enkephalin-like fibres in the thalamic nuclei centrum medianum, parascicularis and subparafascicularis, in which in the animals no pretreated with electroacupuncture, immunoreactive fibres were observed.
(6) The most prominent magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities were the presence of radially oriented cystic areas in the centrum semiovale, peritrigonal white matter, corpus callosum, and pericallosal region.
(7) Bone formation in the vertebral centra commences within the centrum and is in this respect analogous to the secondary ossification which occurs in the epiphysis of a long bone.
(8) In the caudal diencephalon, the ascending fibers entered the centrum medianum-parafascicular complex where they diverged into two fascicles: a dorsal fascicle which terminated in the intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus, and a ventral fascicle which gave off fibers to the ventrobasal complex and reticular nucleus of the thalamus while continuing centrolaterally into the lateral hypothalamus medial to the internal capsule.
(9) IAPP mRNA was present in the antrum, centrum and pylorus and, like gastrin, the highest amounts were in the pylorus.
(10) In addition, two infants showed delayed myelination in the central occipital white matter and one in the centrum semiovale.
(11) The site of the inhibition is still unknown, nevertheless, the demonstration that PCPS was able to inhibit both evoked potentials in Centrum Medianum and JOR support the hypothesis that the analgesic effects may be due to descending inhibition blocking transmission of nociceptive information through the spinal cord.
(12) Two major systems of cholinergic projection neurons are found within the centrum of the mammalian brain: the basal nuclear complex, projecting predominantly to the cerebral cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus, and the pontomesencephalotegmental network, innervating primarily the thalamus.
(13) Nevertheless, the size of the lesion seen in NMR is not relevant, as observed in one case of an extensive plaque within the centrum semiovale.
(14) The authors studied 5 rhesus monkeys for the effects of annulotomy, with or without the addition of a bacterially-derived collagenase into the nuclear-evacuated centrum of lumbar intervertebral discs.
(15) Computed tomographic scan of the head showed low attenuation of the periventricular white matter and centrum semiovale.
(16) The average distance between lumbar centrums increased nearly linearly throughout the second and third trimesters (r2 = 0.98).
(17) This focus becomes the source of a chronic vasogenic edema, which in turn is most likely to be responsible for the partial demyelination of the adjacent centrum semiovale.
(18) Against this was there were no cell-kinetic changes between centrum and borders of the xenograft tumors.
(19) Thirty eight centrum tendineum of camel from both sexes and of different ages, and fifteen diaphragms of camel fetuses of different CR length were used for the description of the morphological and micromorphological features of the centrum tendineum.
(20) One is located in the immediate periventricular region; the other, in the deep subcortical white matter (centrum semiovale).
Vertebra
Definition:
(n.) One of the serial segments of the spinal column.
(n.) One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(3) The various changes were accompanied by a marked reduction in the overall wet weight of the vertebrae.
(4) The BMD of the 2nd to 4th lumbar vertebrae was measured and the mean density presented as g cm-2.
(5) All the vertebrae were agenetic below the thoracic segments in the other rat fetus.
(6) Neusticosaurus species are easiest separated by their number of presacral vertebrae.
(7) This was followed by a gradual density increase such that by 1 year postoperatively, in 60% of the subjects, the density of these vertebrae was higher than the preoperative level.
(8) The characteristic injuries were compression wedge-shaped fractures, multiple fractures of the vertebrae, comminuted and traumatic spondylolistheses and dislocation fractures.
(9) They make it possible to dissect, by spending minimal time and making less efforts, the vertebral canal both within several vertebrae and its nearly full length, providing a wide view of the spinal cord, rootlets, and intervertebral ganglia.
(10) The Authors describe the moniliform structure of dorsal aorta of the Cyprinus carpio L., which has successive swellings and constrictions, strictly corresponding to each vertebra.
(11) He also had multiple follicular and papillary thyroid carcinomas with a metastatic lesion in the lumbar vertebrae.
(12) In older children, there were a low vertebral signal and disappearance of the disc-vertebra borders on T1-weighted images and a high vertebral signal with a decreased and flattened disc signal on T2-weighted images.
(13) Hyperthermia was applied in the region of the vertebral column between the cervical vertebrae 5 and thoracic 2, using a ring-shaped applicator operating at a microwave frequency of 434 MHz.
(14) The authors report on their experience with 23 patients with destructive disease of the vertebrae.
(15) In 20 patients, vertebral deformities were limited to 1 or 2 mid-thoracic vertebrae, and the mean CaBI values for these 20 patients was 0.81 (0.15), equal to that for patients without any vertebral deformity.
(16) Both conditions are inherited and characterised by malformed thoracic and lumbar vertebrae.
(17) The injured vertebra is grafted through the pedicle, giving security against late collapse after device removal.
(18) The authors describe two types of pelvic obliquity--total pelvic obliquity in which the sacrum is the lowest vertebra of the lumbar curve and subtotal pelvic obliquity in which there is some compensation between L5 and the sacrum.
(19) Although anterior and posterior traumatic displacement of cervical vertebrae are commonly noted, and the devastating neurological deficits associated with these injuries have been amply defined, lateral displacement with fractures has been rarely recognized, and the clinical significance of this injury has been overlooked.
(20) The T-1 nerve root obstructs posterolateral access to the T-1 vertebra, necessitating an inferolateral approach underneath the T-1 nerve root axilla.