What's the difference between dolichocephalism and dolichocephaly?
Dolichocephalism
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
Example Sentences:
(1) During examination of 200 WPWS patients, asthenic constitution, dolichocephalism and arachnodactyly were revealed in most of them.
(2) The head is generally dolichocephal, with broad upper face and medium jugo-mandibular index in both the communities.
Dolichocephaly
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Dolichocephalism
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenotype differs somewhat from most cases recognized elsewhere, in that dolichocephaly is a less constant feature, the facial skin lesion is less prominent, and life-threatening infections are less common.
(2) Dolichocephaly should be considered when cephalometry alone suggests a diagnosis of placental insufficiency.
(3) Preschool children were found to have dolichocephaly, while hand and foot measurements, stature and sitting height were within normal range, although foot size was smaller than hand size in females when compared with PWS males.
(4) The syndrome is characterized by dissolution of terminal phalanges of the hands and feet, dolichocephaly, open cranial sutures, multiple wormian bones, absence of frontal sinuses, wide open sella turcica, progressive basilar invagination, early loss of teeth, short stature and characteristic facies.
(5) A 3-month-old female had many characteristics of chromosome 13q-syndrome, including dolichocephaly, epicanthus, ptosis, depressed nasal bridge, micrognathia, short webbed neck, and short fifth fingers with clinodactyly and single crease.
(6) The authors report, concerning 115 cas of scaphocephaly, the clinical (spheno., lepto., bathmo., clino., the kinds without dolichocephaly) radiological characteristics (temporal curve without dolichocephaly), orbito-sphenoidal obliquity regressing after treatment).
(7) A Brother and sister are presented with the following abnormalities: dolichocephaly with tendency toward premature closure of the sagittal suture; antimongoloid slant of the eyes with epicanthal folds, full cheeks, everted lip, multiple oral frenula, mildly high-arched palate, and microdontia with possible enamel defect; posteriorly rotated low-set pinnae with deficient cartilage; a small short thorax with pectus excavatum; unusual dermatoglyphics, and abnormal hair growth and stucture; disproportionate shortening of the fibulae and the middle and distal phalanges of the toes and fingers; and somewhat flattened epiphyses.
(8) Two unrelated patients with a strikingly similar phenotype (low birth weight and poor thriving; mental retardation; dolichocephaly; beaked nose; deeply set eyes; prominent maxilla and receding small chin; long fingers with a peculiar clench) were partially trisomic for two different segments of 9q.
(9) Physical features included macrocrania, dolichocephaly, frontal bossing, hypertelorism, high-arched palate, large hands and feet.
(10) The most important diagnostic features of this syndrome are dolichocephaly, prominent forehead, wide open sutures and fontanelles, broad root of the nose, cleft lip and palate, clubfoot, and cystic changes in kidneys.
(11) The early Teutons were characterised by great and strong stature, tendence to dolichocephalie and were of spectacular vigour.
(12) Displacement from 5 mm to 30 mm perpendicular to the central X-ray caused unfixed changes, presumed to be human errors in measuring, in the following ranges; brachicephaly: 0-1.4%, dolichocephaly: 0-0.9%.
(13) Other useful clinical findings included arachnodactyly, dolichocephaly, a characteristic facies, a high-arched palate, micrognathia, hyperextensible joints, pes planus, anterior chest deformity, iridodenesis, megalocornea, and dislocated lenses.
(14) A patient with distal 15q trisomy resulting from malsegregation of a maternal t(13;15)(q33;q21.2) showed the following symptoms: micro-dolichocephaly, palpebral fissures slightly oriented downwards and outwards, a large nose, pronounced micrognathia, prominent authelices, ligamental abnormalities, osseous malformations evocative of diastrophic dwarfism, severe congenital heart defect, and profound encephalopathy.
(15) The main of them are: prenatal hypoplasia, dolichocephaly, microgenia, concha auriculae drawn in the horizontal plane, flexor position of bones, shortness and thickness of the great toe and protruding heel, thickness and distortion of convolution of the dorsal lip of the olivary nucleus, hypoplasia of the cerebellum, heterotopia of the piriform Purkinje cells into the white matter of the cerebellum and foci of nondifferentiated cells in the white matter of the great hemispheres; complex cardiac defects--Meckel's diverticulum, fused kidneys (horseshoe- or L-shaped) with small cysts in the renal cortex; and the presence of 10 or more arches on fingers and toes in combination with proximal or intermediate localization of axial triradius.
(16) Guided by the literature historical, racial, genetical and diagnostical aspects, likewise associated syndromes and malformations of dolichocephaly and premature sagittal synostosis are represented, also own clinical, roentgenological, pneum- and electroencephalographic findings of 57 patients.
(17) She suffers from psychomotor retardation, dolichocephaly, malformed ears, "a false air of trisomy 21", malformation of the legs, obesity.
(18) The most common abnormalities found were mental retardation, short stature, dolichocephaly, prominent nasal bridge, prognathism, seizures, hypotonia, ear abnormalities, increased ulnar loops on the fingertips, and cryptorchidism in affected males.
(19) The data support suggestions that dolichocephaly be considered an early diagnostic feature of PLWS.
(20) The respective newborn infants were normally grown and had dolichocephaly with a normal head circumference.