(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.
Lambda
Definition:
(n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.
(n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(2) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(3) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(4) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
(5) Three distinct G-proteins have been found in mammalian heart sarcolemma: Gi (alpha i = 40 kDa, beta = 36 kDa, and lambda less than 14 kDa), Gp (alpha p = 23 kDa, beta = 36 kDa, and lambda less than 14 kDa), and Gs (alpha s = 42 kDa).
(6) We isolated and characterized 22 strains with lambda placMu insertions in Lrp-regulated genes.
(7) By contrast, the concentrations of IgA1 kappa and IgA1 lambda in PBMC culture supernatants, both spontaneous and PWM-stimulated, were identical in patients and controls.
(8) Substitution of DnaK protein with that of the mutant DnaK756 protein blocks lambda P release.
(9) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
(10) Because the contour length of these loops was proportionate to the DNA content of the superinfecting lambda phage, it was concluded that the fibers contained DNA condensed 6.5-fold in blocks of about 250 base pairs.
(11) In these lines a new V gene (V-lambda-X), exhibiting less than 60% homology to any known lambda or kappa V gene, is rearranged to J-lambda-2.
(12) The chiral intercalators, at micromolar concentrations, inhibit the reaction of EcoRI, but for each enantiomeric pair it is the lambda enantiomer, which binds only poorly to a B-DNA helix, that inhibits EcoRI preferentially.
(13) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
(14) Rolling-circle replicating structures which represent late stage lambda DNA replication can be detected among intracellular phage lambda DNA molecules under recombination deficient conditions as well as in wild-type infections.
(15) Nuclease protection experiments show that Xis protein of bacteriophage lambda specifically binds attachment (att) site DNA.
(16) Insertion sites were strongly clustered within the target lambda repressor gene: however no sequence specificity determinants could be identified.
(17) The defective hybrid genome thus harbors two origins for SV40 DNA replication in addition to the leftward operator and the N gene of lambda.
(18) An argon dye laser system with lambda em=630 nm (400 mW cm-2) was used for PDT with a total light dose of 400 J cm-2.
(19) Therefore, it was suggested that deletion of a gene in the region of the chromosome from the position of the insertion of the lambda prophage through the thyA gene caused loss of an essential and diffusible function.
(20) Complementation of int function of prophages lambda and pi81 was demonstrated in the formation of stable lysogenics.