(a.) Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior.
(n.) A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(2) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(3) In embryos examined 2 days after CP administration, fetal weight and brain weight were less than controls, but cephalic AChE was higher (p less than 0.001).
(4) The use of this approach is associated with a lower reoperation rate than the cephalic vein way.
(5) This is a case controlled study of 385 women with breech presentation and 357 with cephalic presentation.
(6) Sympathetic activity was altered by temporarily lowering cephalic perfusion pressure (CPP) from 90 to 20 mmHg while aortic pressure was held constant.
(7) Seven peripheral vein sites were successfully venipunctured in unanaesthetized chinchillas: the femoral, cephalic, auricular, saphenous, dorsalis penis, lateral abdominal and tail veins.
(8) "Half-way", Secalon-Seldy, soft venous catheters, 40 cm long, were inserted by basilic (n = 90) and cephalic (n = 31) veins at the fossa cubiti in 121 patients (71 men and 50 women) aged between 19 and 88 years whose heights varied from 152-197 cm.
(9) is a benign disease of the pancreas, limited to its cephalic portion, without demonstrated pathogenesis.
(10) Three patients with unstable fractures got cranial perforation of the cephalic screw after mobilisation.
(11) Conventional Roentgenographic Cephalometric Methods (RCM) have certain conceptual and geometric constraints that ensure that their descriptions of cephalic growth and comparisons of cephalic form are reference-frame-dependent; and it is impossible to determine which, if any, RCM reference frame provides a biologically more correct description or comparison.
(12) To better understand the mechanism of cerebral blood flow during CPR in humans, we determined the aortic-carotid artery pressure difference, the cephalic perfusion pressure (the carotid artery-jugular vein pressure difference), and thoracic inlet venous "valving" (the central venous-jugular vein pressure difference), while administering standard doses of epinephrine.
(13) For cephalic lesions, if excision surgery seems difficult, it may be conceivable, using modern techniques of investigation, to adopt a conservative attitude when there are no features suggestive of potential malignant change.
(14) We have compared IOP elevations induced by water-loading and by increased cephalic venous pressure in normal and denervated pigmented rabbits.
(15) A technique of cephalic perforation and fetal bone screw application is described in 9 cases of severe abruptio placentae complicated by intra-uterine fetal death and uterine inertia.
(16) A diagnosis of benign cephalic histiocytosis was made on the basis of these clinical, histological, and ultrastructural findings.
(17) The following clinical factors tend to be associated with an increased number of respirator brains: A. Cerebral trauma B. Subnormal body timperature C. Low systolic blood pressure D. Dilated pupils E. Pupils unresponsive to light F. Absence of cephalic reflexes G. Electrocerebral Silence (ECS) 6.
(18) On the contrary, the SEPs obtained with a cephalic reference on stimulating the posterior tibial nerves were of small amplitude and disorganized.
(19) The cephalic signal can be superseded by juvenile hormone, whose presence is necessary for each follicle to become vitellogenic.
(20) The cells contained spherical granules with variable densities and diameters ranging between 40 and 280 nm in the rostral (=cephalic) lobe, and between 60 and 260 nm in the caudal lobe.
Encephalic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1.--Craneo-encephalic traumatisms with loss of consciousness, Feeding with a combination of parenteral nutrition and modular enteral nutrition for 7 days.
(2) These results provide a framework for a further electron microscopic analysis of the GABAergic innervation of some encephalic areas involved in physiological regulations particular to this species especially the visual system.
(3) By comparing these findings with those observed in three other cases, in which biopsy of the pulp of the toe was also performed, the hypothesis can be advanced that these juvenile encephalic ischemic accidents are caused by atheroma, which can be detected, at an early stage, by studying the distal arteries in the finger or toe pulp.
(4) Liquor examination showed albumino-cytological dissociation with an increase in liquor IgG; encephalic CT and encephalo-medullary NMR were normal; a neurophysiological study (EMG, PEV, BAER) was indicative of the PNS problems.
(5) They discuss the accepted ideas of the merely morphological problems of this type of craniostenosis, about their clinical and X-ray findings of encephalic disorder.
(6) The present study examined the effects of maternal bilateral adrenalectomy and betamethasone treatment on fetal encephalic development, in terms of fetal body weight, brain weight, DNA, protein and lipid content and morphological development.
(7) In the encephalous there was edema, uncus herniation and hemorrhagic infarct of the brain stem.
(8) Descriptive analysis of some features in patients with cranio-encephalic traumatisms (CET) admitted to our hospital and collected in a data base, in order to establish the prognosis of the lesions and apply the most appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
(9) It is firstly recalled that, among Vertebrates, in peripheral sense-organs on the one hand, in encephalic relays and terminals on the other hand, not only the types but also the numbers of neurons, are determining factors for the kinds of relations that exist between organisms and environments.
(10) Auditive evoked potentials evidenced a prolongation of the interlatency III-V, suggesting pathologic involvement of the encephalic trunk.
(11) Five males and three females, at the encephalic stage of sleeping sickness, were submitted to trypanocide therapies.
(12) Mention is then made "from below upwards" of a number of common conditions in which pain is a frequent presenting symptom: firts peripheral: polyneuropathy (alcoholic and diabetic), polyradiculoneuropathy, mononeuropathy, root pain (sciatica, cruralgia), narrow lumbar canal; then central: spinal cord pain, thalamic pain, so-called projected encephalic pain.
(13) The encephalic structures are very complex, changeable, labile, therefor her variations can correspond with the "psychologics" variations.
(14) During a 40-month period 78 episodes of encephalic toxoplasmosis (ET) were diagnosed in 57 patients among 394 with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (based on CDC criteria) in the Hospital Clinic from Barcelona.
(15) Tuberculous encephalic infection is commonly reported as confined to Asians or Africans or people living in poor hygienic conditions; very often it follows meningitis in patients with lung TB infection.
(16) The second patient, aged 30, followed up for more than 10 years, presented the clinical aspects of Pierre Marie disease; stress is laid on encephalic CT examinations carried out at the age of 20 and 30.
(17) The volume of the encephalic ventricles was determined from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
(18) dogs ; 2) that the sympathetic reaction induced different effects in various vascular regions ; 3) that levomepromazine induced an impairement of the mechanisms involved in the regulation of the encephalic irrigation.
(19) Hence, it suggests that BYHWD had the evident effects in antagonizing the damage of blood brain barrier and encephalic cell caused by free radical in brain edema.
(20) Central cranio-encephalic formations follow the same spiral path.