(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.
Intercostal
Definition:
(a.) Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
(2) The existence of two functionally different types of intercostal gamma neurones has been confirmed.
(3) In the COPD patients the metabolic activities of HK, CS and HAD were higher in both intercostals than in LD.
(4) 2) Gastrocnemius muscle group I afferent fibers evoke some of the same units as intercostal afferents but do not alter respiratory activity.
(5) The freezing time for each intercostal nerve in this group was reduced to one 30 second exposure instead of the two 30 second exposures previously used.
(6) 2) For the convenience of description of the nerve supply to the intercostalis interni et intimi, each intercostal nerve is divided into three parts from proximal to distal: part 1, the outside of the intercostalis intimus; part 2, between the intercostalis intimus and intercostalis internus; and part 3, inside the intercostalis internus.
(7) One bleeding of 200 ml from a wounded intercostal vessel ligated with a clip was the sole operative hitch.
(8) Both types of stimuli caused inhibition of phrenic activity and facilitation of internal intercostal nerve activity, indicating expiratory effort.
(9) The attacks were detected by audible wheeze, augmentation of diaphragm, external intercostal and sternomastoid activity, associated with distinctive changes in thoracoabdominal motion.
(10) The catheters were inserted near the intercostal nerves, above and beneath the incision, just before the wound was closed and 0.25% bupivacaine hydrochloride solution was infused periodically through the catheters.
(11) Platelet accumulation was significantly higher at arterial branching points, 70% higher at intercostal artery bifurcations, and 150% higher at coronary artery bifurcations than in unbranched aortic intima.
(12) 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.
(13) A double-blind randomised study was performed to investigate the effect of pH adjustment of bupivacaine, with adrenaline 1:200,000, on the duration of block and pain relief after intercostal nerve blockade following thoracotomy.
(14) The surgeons were able to aspirate the accumulated pus quite easily in 8 of the 9 patients with AIDS who underwent only intercostal drainage.
(15) On high-resolution CT scans in the normal subjects, a 1-2-mm-thick line of soft-tissue attenuation at the point of contact between lung and chest wall represents the visceral and parietal pleura, pleural contents, endothoracic fascia, and innermost intercostal muscle.
(16) Six to 9 weeks after proximal nerve section in 10-d-old and adult rats, 0.1 microliter injections of wheat germ agglutinin (WGA)-HRP were made in the distal part of the reinnervated internal intercostal muscle.
(17) Those with the internal intercostal and phrenic nerves were interpreted as evidence for shared or oligosynaptic excitation, those with the external intercostal nerve as shared excitation and inhibition.
(18) While blood of the wall of the canal is supposed to be supplied initially from internal mammary and intercostal arteries, the muscle flap over the canal may subsequently provide more blood to the skin canal.
(19) The inaccuracy in the detector placement at the fourth intercostal space gives rise to only a small error in the direction of the detected magnetic heart vector.
(20) The sector scanner through the supraclavicular approach adequately visualized the external profile and the internal texture of the lesions in all 11 patients, which is a significant improvement (p less than 0.05) over what can be accomplished with linear-array scanner through the intercostal approach.