(n.) The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fractures to the midface in the pediatric age group are rare because the mandible and cranium provide protection and absorb most of the traumatic impact.
(2) By fitting the gradient of computer simulated fields to those measured outside the cranium, the accuracy of source localization was substantially improved.
(3) MRI revealed cranium bifida and agenesis of anterior medullar velum.
(4) The type specimen of Turkanapithecus kalakolensis recently recovered from northern Kenya preserves a partial cranium and mandible.
(5) Forty-two ASA physical status I and II patients without history of cardiac or pulmonary disease undergoing surgery not involving the cranium or thorax.
(6) Vascular reconstruction, free vascularized pedicle grafts, transfacial exposure combined with classic neurosurgical exposure have provided a new era for successful surgery of the frontal fossa of the cranium.
(7) A method is described whereby three-dimensional co-ordinates of points on a cranium can be recorded in terms of azimuth, elevation and radial distance from a selected point.
(8) Radiograms of the cranium show a "pumice-stone" appearance of the dome and deformation of the sella turcica.
(9) At the time of initial ultrasonographic assessment, the mother was identified to have a markedly small cranium, consistent with maternal microcephaly.
(10) Spread to the most distal parts of the cranium was only accomplished after the intervening sychondroses had fused.
(11) All patients experiencing infection underwent simultaneous reconstruction of the frontal cranium and nose and three- or four-wall reconstruction of the orbit, where the frontal sinus had previously been eliminated and where a previous bone infection had been present.
(12) Non-metrical variants of the human cranium have been studied in 186 London crania of known age, sex and date of birth.
(13) Exencephaly should be regarded as the most severe form of cranium bifidum, as myeloschisis is in spina bifida.
(14) Cancers and tumours of the ethmoid bone are characterized by the possibility of extension towards the lamina cribrosa and within the cranium.
(15) A method of neurovegetative blockade with and without cranio-cerebral cooling has been worked out to deal with patients with traumas of the cranium and brain of varying severity.
(16) At autopsy, each had a small brain, hydrocephalus, and bony anomaly of the cranium, the one of the posterior fossa and the other of the foramen magnum; in addition, one had absence of the corpus callosum.
(17) A clinical course and the results of treatment of infections in 53 neonates with visceral cranium defects are discussed.
(18) In contrast, although the cortical architecture is often distorted, neuronal maturation in cases of cranium bifidum cysticum is primarily complete, demonstrating normal cerebral cortical layers and NSE positive neural elements.
(19) The prosector's diagnosis of brain atrophy is not supported by the brain weight of 1,336 g, which is near the average brain weight for men of the corresponding age, nor by the volume of the cranium.
(20) Scan microscopic studies were conducted on the periosteal surface and the fracture surfaces of ribs, tibia and vault of the cranium.
Hemicrania
Definition:
(n.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical characteristics of headaches were those described in chronic paroxysmal hemicrania.
(2) 21 patients showed certain changes in the clinical picture and course of hemicrania itself: enhancement of paroxysms or transformation of one form of hemicrania to the other one, more severe (e.g.
(3) The results obtained with this method on 28 different patients, six of with were normal subjects, while the remaining 22 were suffering: six from cerebro vascular disease, four from epilepsy, three from TIA, six from dementia, two from depressive syndrome and one from hemicrania are reported.
(4) Five patients had hemicranias, and all were homolateral to the endarterectomy.
(5) This variety of headache, not previously reported, was quite similar to the "hemicrania continua" except for its localization.
(6) Cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania are assumed to be so closely related that they from a classification point of view have been grouped together under the superstructure: cluster headache syndrome.
(7) Both episodic and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania respond well to treatment with indomethacin.
(8) The finding of a female preponderance, like that in chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, is a new observation.
(9) Paroxysmal headaches often occur in benign headache disorders such as episodic cluster headache, chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH) and episodic paroxysmal hemicrania.
(10) Episodic paroxysmal hemicrania (EPH) is a rare disorder characterized by discrete bouts of hemicranial headache separated by headache-free remissions.
(11) It seems unlikely that a time pattern that has remained unchanged for 17 years will become continuous, as in HC, in the future, and thus it is possible that our patient represents a case of a new type of headache that we propose to name "Hemicrania Episodica."
(12) The autonomic involvement from a clinical point of view, was clearly less pronounced than that of other unilateral headaches, such as cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania.
(13) Problems related to the need of certification of ability to work for those affected by cervical hemicrania have been analysed.
(14) Hemicrania continua (HC) is a headache entity completely responsive to indomethacin.
(15) Superimposition of essential hypertension or atherosclerosis was also coupled with changes in the course of hemicrania, in particular by an increase of the period of cephalgia and appearance of constant headaches.
(16) The pre-continuous phase of hemicrania continua may thus masquerade as episodic cluster headache by reason of its intermittency and "clustering".
(17) This conclusion has precluded the possibility of paroxysmal hemicrania having an episodic counterpart.
(18) Facial temperature was measured thermographically and pupillary diameter recorded photographically during and between episodes of headache and during spontaneous remission of headache in a patient with chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH).
(19) The remitting form of HC must be distinguished from other cyclical headache disorders such as episodic paroxysmal hemicrania and episodic cluster headache.
(20) Four cases clinically compatible with "Hemicrania Continua" are described.