What's the difference between costal and costalgia?
Costal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.
(a.) Relating to a costa, or rib.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cholecystogram was confirmed as the best overall discriminator, but right costal margin pain by itself was as efficient as any triplet.
(2) These results demonstrate that a difference in myosin heavy chain isoforms and oxidative capacity exists between the costal and crural regions of the rat diaphragm.
(3) Devitalized homologous costal cartilage is widely employed as an implant in the management of the saddle nose.
(4) Tidal shortening will increase the force output of costal while decreasing that of the crural diaphragm.
(5) Bipolar stainless steel wire electrodes were placed unilaterally into the costal and crural portions of the diaphragm and into the parasternal intercostal muscle in the second or third intercostal space.
(6) The partitioning of costal and abdomino-diaphragmatic breathing is considered of great significance to the outcome of this competition.
(7) Sagittal images were produced with the transducer's face directed craniad, placed parallel to the left lateral abdominal wall, and pushed under the costal arch.
(8) The results of mass prophylactic screening of the population for tuberculosis in the south of the Aral sea costal region have been generalized with consideration of its geographic and sanitary--epidemiologic conditions.
(9) This replacement, done with a double Merselene mesh, should extend up to the costal margin and should be of the same width as the fascia taken with the muscle pedicle.
(10) EMG electrodes were also inserted into the costal portion of the diaphragm.
(11) A two-month-old female presented with hepatomegaly 5 cm below the right costal margin.
(12) Medical radiophotography can be used as a method in detecting congenital costal defects.
(13) Radiographic findings that were tabulated included joint space narrowing, sternal or costal osteophytes, articular calcification, vacuum phenomena, and the degree of ossification of the costal cartilages.
(14) We studied the in vitro contractile and fatigue properties of the rat external abdominal oblique (EAO) and costal diaphragm (DIA) muscles during postnatal development.
(15) A biopsy was performed, followed by a partial hemimandibulectomy and a costal graft.
(16) One hundred forty-nine operations consisting of 75 laryngotracheoplasties and 74 laryngotracheal reconstructions with costal cartilage grafting were performed.
(17) The histochemical and ultrastructural characteristics of the adult rat and rabbit costal diaphragm were investigated.
(18) In rabbits with adjuvant induced pleuritis, the visceral pleura, but not the costal pleura, showed mushroom-like projections on the pleural surface which were composed of a fibrin mass mixed with phagocytotic macrophages and covered by proliferative mesothelial cells.
(19) Mosaic analyses show that the duplications arise nonautonomously in the larval stages but that the costal-2 gene is not required after early embryogenesis.
(20) A similar pattern of response was observed for increases in tail length and uptake of 35SO42- into costal cartilage in vivo.