What's the difference between dolichocephalic and mesocephalic?

Dolichocephalic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Dolichocephalous

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A comparison and evaluation of a range of basic anatomic relationships underlying facial form in Angle Class I and Class II dolichocephalic, brachycephalic, mesocephalic, and dinaric types of headform.
  • (2) These four skulls were paired as regards their shape (2 annular and dolichocephalic and 2 tabular and brachycephalic) and as regards their age (2 skulls of children and 2 of adults).
  • (3) Analogous to the facial structures is an expression of some somatotopic features that give rise to a higher and more shallow pharyngeal dimension in the dolichocephalic growth pattern.
  • (4) The mean values for the CI were found to be lower for breech presenting fetuses in complicated pregnancies, indicating a trend for these fetuses to have a more dolichocephalic head shape.
  • (5) They are dolichocephalic with narrow faces and rather large noses.
  • (6) The section depth varies from 6.0 to 6.5 cm in brachycephalic and from 7.0 to 7.5 cm in dolichocephalic individuals.
  • (7) There was no significant difference in the axial globe length of right and left eyes in mesocephalic or dolichocephalic dogs.
  • (8) The literature indicates that upper-airway compromise produces chronic mouth breathing, especially in the dolichocephalic (narrow-faced) child.
  • (9) (1987): dolichocephalic persons have otitis media less often than do brachycephalic persons.
  • (10) With use of a brachicephalic young (corresponding to age 7) and a dolichocephalic adult human dried mandible, lateral roentgenocephalograms taken under different conditions with angles and distances varied, simulating clinical lateral roentgenocephalometry at the open mouth position, were compared and studied.
  • (11) The axial globe length of male and female dogs was not significantly different in mesocephalic or dolichocephalic dogs.
  • (12) Premature closure of lambdoid sutures and posterior part of sagittal suture causes a posteriorly narrow, dolichocephalic skull with small, flat or bulging occiput and protuberance of the forehead; disturbance of the growth of basal skull structures leads to craniofacial dysostosis and (secondary) anomalies of the face.
  • (13) Good tubal function coincided with mesoor brachycephalic skeletons, poor tubal function with dolichocephalic morphologic patterns.
  • (14) 92 dolichocephalic skull (44 male, 48 female) from mongrel dogs were used.
  • (15) Among them were 22 brachycephalics, 8 mesocephalics, and 10 dolichocephalics.
  • (16) There are differences in the craniofacial skeleton, dental arch, and tooth dimensions between brachycephalics and dolichocephalics.
  • (17) The normal B-scan ultrasonographic anatomic features of the eye and orbit of mesocephalic and dolichocephalic dogs were described.
  • (18) dolichocephalic, mesocephalic and brachycephalic, and were examined for the presence of sutural bones in each form.
  • (19) We report on an 8-month-old child with a dolichocephalic head due to prominent forehead and occiput.
  • (20) A dolichocephalic canine skull was utilized to develop a teaching and study model for coronal access cavity preparation of the dentition.

Mesocephalic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the middle of the head; as, the mesocephalic flexure.
  • (a.) Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic.
  • (a.) Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A comparison and evaluation of a range of basic anatomic relationships underlying facial form in Angle Class I and Class II dolichocephalic, brachycephalic, mesocephalic, and dinaric types of headform.
  • (2) There was no significant difference in the axial globe length of right and left eyes in mesocephalic or dolichocephalic dogs.
  • (3) The axial globe length of male and female dogs was not significantly different in mesocephalic or dolichocephalic dogs.
  • (4) Among them were 22 brachycephalics, 8 mesocephalics, and 10 dolichocephalics.
  • (5) The normal B-scan ultrasonographic anatomic features of the eye and orbit of mesocephalic and dolichocephalic dogs were described.
  • (6) dolichocephalic, mesocephalic and brachycephalic, and were examined for the presence of sutural bones in each form.
  • (7) The axial globe length of dolichocephalic dogs was significantly longer than that of mesocephalic dogs.
  • (8) The variations of the cephalic index are in close connection with those of the angle of division of the nerve (brachycephalic: average angle 95 degrees; mesocephalic: 107 degrees; dolichocephalic: 125 degrees).
  • (9) The eyes of mesocephalic and dolichocephalic dogs were measured by use of ultrasonographic methods; those measurements were compared with direct measurements of the specimens.

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