(a.) Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
(2) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
(3) In the present study, the expression of type IV collagen associated with the basal membrane (BM) was studied histochemically (indirect immunoperoxidase-antiperoxidase) in cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (diagnosed using in situ DNA hybridization) of different grades.
(4) The guanethidine treatment resulted in an 86% absolute reduction in cell number in the superior cervical ganglia of 15 day old rats.
(5) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(6) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.
(7) We reviewed the results of intraoperative monitoring of short-latency cortical evoked potentials in 81 patients who underwent surgical procedures of the cervical spine.
(8) To develop a new immunobead binding test (IBT) procedure that will detect sperm antibody in cervical mucus (CM), especially in very small samples of mucus.
(9) Unrecognized flexion injuries of the cervical spine may lead to late instability and neurologic damage.
(10) C trachomatis is a well known cause of cervicitis and salpingitis and is consequently a major factor in infertility.
(11) The flow cytometric measured DNA content (i.e., DNA index), S-fractions, and histopathologic malignancy grades were studied for ninety uterine cervical squamous cell carcinomas using tissue biopsies taken prior to radiotherapy.
(12) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(13) The treatment led to decreased spinnbarkeit, arborization and sperum penetration in the cervical mucus.
(14) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(15) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
(16) A comparative evaluation of these data suggest that hormone independent cells are present in the cervical crypts of late menopause women and that a cyclic change of hormone dependent cells may occur in fertile women, analogous to the cyclic changes of endometrial mucosa.
(17) In retrospect, this parotid disease has similarity to the sonographic finding of Sjögren's syndrome, except for the finding of cervical adenopathy, an observation not previously appreciated.
(18) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
(19) Sixty-one patients with Stage IB cervical carcinoma treated initially by Type III radical hysterectomy underwent water cystometry 6 or more months after surgery.
(20) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
Cervix
Definition:
(n.) The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hexokinase, phoshofructokinase, and aldolase appear to be rate-limiting in normal cervix epithelium; however, since the increase in activity of the first two in cancers was least of all the glycolytic enzymes, redundant enzyme synthesis probably occurs in the malignant cell for the enzymes catalysing reversible reactions.
(2) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(3) Our preliminary data from this study suggest that 85% trichloroacetic acid is effective treatment of human papillomavirus infection of the cervix without dysplasia.
(4) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(5) The normal tissues included the ovary, fallopian tube, uterine endometrium, uterine cervix, and vagina.
(6) Comparison with other neoplasms of the uterine cervix indicates that the lesion should be classified separately.
(7) The results of natural PGs and their analogues by systemic and intrauterine administration for the purposes of postcoital contraception, menstrual regulation, first and second trimester abortion, preoperative dilatation of the cervix, and delivery of patients with death in utero are presented.
(8) Prolonged survivals were revealed in the radiation therapy of patients with carcinoma of lung and uterine cervix concomitant use of PS-K. And the condition necessary for long-term survival with BRMs were thought to be that the tumor was almost disappeared by irradiation.
(9) Tuberculosis of the cervix of the uterus is a rare form of genital tuberculosis.
(10) Between 1970 and 1976 a total of 8254 gravidae were screened by smears of the cervix for carcinoma.
(11) A series of 38 patients 65 years of age or older who underwent Wertheim hysterectomy for primary treatment of stages IB and IIA (FIGO) carcinoma of the cervix is reported.
(12) The same evaluation in 76 nonrandom contemporary controls matched for risk factors, maternal age, and parity has shown that more than 50% had a cervix dilated more than 2 cm, 38% had a cervix shorter than 0.5 cm, and 24% had rupture of the fetal membranes.
(13) The c-myc oncoprotein nuclear content does not appear to be a prognostic indicator in carcinoma of the cervix from the results of these studies but there is clearly diagnostic potential, particularly for automated analysis of cervical screening.
(14) Complex clinico-endoscopic and morphological study of the uterine cervix pathology is performed in more than 20 000 women since 1962 up to now.
(15) In more than 60%, dilatation or effacement of the cervix occurred with minimal side effects.
(16) Argyrophil small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix (ASCC) containing human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) DNA has been successfully transplanted in nude mice for the first time, and we have designated the resultant cell line as YIK-1.
(17) Two cases of uterine injury complicating midtrimester abortion induced by hypertonic saline are described, one with an extensive laceration of the cervix and the other with a rupture of the lower uterine segment extending into the vault of the vagina.
(18) The guiding topic of this report was "the value and importance of intracavitary therapy in uterine cervix carcinoma".
(19) Pelvic nerve: vagina, cervix, and perineal skin; hypogastric nerve: cervix and proximal three fifths of the uterus; pudendal nerve: skin of perineum, inner thigh, and clitoral sheath.
(20) Sterile coitus on the other hand, stimulates the uterine cervix in the rat and induces a physiological state of pseudopregnancy which interrupts the normal pattern of the oestrous cycle and establishes a persistent dioestrous state.