(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.
Example Sentences:
(1) This pressure will, at the edges of the superior and inferior end-plates, be counteracted by the tractional stresses of the fibers of the discal annulus fibrosus that are inserted at the vertebral margins.
(2) The method seems interesting for the study of discal and somatic spine diseases, and especially for the evaluation of tumor extension, the diagnosis of herniated disc, the diagnosis of spondylodiscitis, the exploration of the cervico-occipital joint.
(3) The complementary investigations (gaz myelography and spinal angiography) show the discal hernia in T11-T12 which was operated successfully.
(4) We developed some instruments to resolve these problems; i.e., scopes with a large diameter for high resolution, a triangulation instrument for multiple cannulations, a needle set-up jig for disk traction suture, a step cannulation system and a two-channel cannula for operating in the narrow lower joint space and a fixing jig for cannulas in the upper and lower joint space to observe the same portion of the discal tissue from both joint space during disk suturing.
(5) Of the three retinal regions studied, the alkalinizing response was present in the area centralis and in the adjoining near-discal region, but was absent in the superior temporal periphery.
(6) TMJ was found to be a well-vascularized organ with the most dense vascular distribution in the retro-discal region, but no blood vessels were observed in the articular disc.
(7) In the event of failure of medical treatment and if the patient is very handicapped, one most often resorts to decompressive surgery, however when narrowing is principally due to a discal projection, one may attempt discolysis with chymopapain.
(8) By using a type of double-blind study, a comparison has been made between 20 patients who were treated with chemonucleolysis and 20 who were treated with intra-discal hydrocortisone.
(9) Muscular tissue was stripped from the specimens, but all discal and ligamentous structures were preserved.
(10) Study of the literature and of the series of sciatica patients operated upon by the authors shows that although discal hernia is far from being the most frequent cause of common sciatica, arthrosic compression is a cause that cannot be ignored, especially in aged subjects.
(11) from the clinical, radiographical, and therapeutical aspects, we reviewed 23 cases selected from the 590 patients treated for discal herniation from 1984 to 1987.
(12) It can objectively assess the degree of narrowing and analyse the proportion due to the anterior discal or posterior articular component.
(13) Analysis of the data from 31 cases studies confirms that this technique has considerable applications in the assessment of corporeo-discal and pediculo-lamar lesions and, in particular in the determination of the degree of spinal canal stenosis and in the detection of actual potential neuroaggressive factors which are important for the choice of therapy.
(14) In case of sciatica, clinical picture rather consists of a narrow lateral recess than a discal protrusion.
(15) In the present case, the pain responded to intra-discal injection of long-acting corticosteroids.
(16) Four factors are implicated in articular function: the fracture position, bone displacement (condylar head in or out of the glenoid fossa), discal apparatus integrity (the lower layer of the retrodiscal tissue is involved in bone regeneration especially in infants), and the quality of occlusion.
(17) CT makes it possible to exclude most of the causes of non-discal CBN in the extradural spaces (e.g.
(18) 26 patients were submitted to a myelography confirming the discal origin of the syndrome: there were 3 cases of disc protrusion and 23 cases of cervical spondylosis.
(19) The discal apparatus is intact and function usually excellent, displaced-high undercondylar fractures with 90 degrees head luxation.
(20) The bone reduction and contention must be associated to discal apparatus control.
Distal
Definition:
(a.) Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle
(a.) Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(3) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(4) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
(5) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(6) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
(7) Investigations showed that compliance is reduced in a distal to proximal direction.
(8) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(9) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
(10) SPRs were elicited either by stimulating the reticular formation or the distal end of the median nerve.
(11) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(12) In conclusion, the ability of distal tubules to establish a significant pH gradient will contribute to the titration of non bicarbonate buffers, i.e., to titratable acid formation.
(13) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(14) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(15) There is approximately a 25% decrease in aggregation from regions of the rib distal to the metaphyseal-growth plate junction (69%) to the region proximal to it (50%).
(16) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(17) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(18) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
(19) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(20) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.