What's the difference between dual and dural?

Dual


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ratio of the cell yields under dual substrate conditions compared to heterotrophic conditions indicated the relative contributions of the autotrophic and heterotrophic systems to the growth of the organism.
  • (2) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (3) Changes of circulating blood volume during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia were investigated by the dual indicator dilution method in eighteen mongrel dogs.
  • (4) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
  • (5) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
  • (6) Mn2+ had dual effects, stimulating the ECP release in the absence of Mg2+ and Ca2+, and inhibiting the release in the presence of these cations.
  • (7) Thus, monocytes may play a dual role, not only as effector cells, but also as cells that collaborate with T cells after OKT3 MoAb stimulation so as to produce PCA.
  • (8) Dual antigen experiments indicated that the increased localization was not specific for the antigen which stimulated production of lymphoblasts used for in vitro labelling and reinfusion.
  • (9) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
  • (10) Cytochemical analysis of the monocytes showed positive for peroxidase and dual esterase staining.
  • (11) Actin also exhibited a clear dual wave pattern of transport that coincided well with that of tubulin, indicating that both actin and tubulin were the major components of both groups IV and V.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
  • (12) Quantitative measurements for 5-HT in lobster larvae were performed using high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) with dual electrochemical detection and for proctolin using radioimmunoassay.
  • (13) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
  • (14) The relative hypermagnesaemia had a similar dual origin.
  • (15) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
  • (16) This study validates the relevance of dual-wavelength fluorometry using a pH-dependent indicator to characterize in vivo normal and tumour tissues after glucose administration.
  • (17) Fourteen patients (60.9%) responded to dual-agent tocolysis by delaying delivery for 48 hours or more.
  • (18) Glutamate-induced changes in intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) were recorded in single rat hippocampal neurons grown in primary culture by employing the Ca2+ indicator indo-1 and a dual-emission microfluorimeter.
  • (19) Dual-positive CD4+CD8+ T cells (which were barely detectable in normal adults), CD4-CD8+ T cells and B cells transiently reached supranormal levels during recovery.
  • (20) The dual-line and polynomial regression techniques fit the data better (mean residual square deviation 0.024 and 0.031, respectively) than the single-regression line approach (0.110).

Dural


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • (2) In order to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption across the dural sinus wall, the effect of CSF pressure (recorded from the cisterna magna) on dural venous pressure (recorded from the transverse sinus) was investigated in groups of rats at 2, 10, 20, and 31 days after birth and in adulthood.
  • (3) Direct visualization of the intercavernous sinuses on contrast-enhanced MR images may serve as an ancillary sign for the diagnosis of carotid-cavernous or carotid-dural fistulas near the sella.
  • (4) They were 3 patients with Arnold-Chiari malformation with syringomyelia, 3 with syringomyelia and 2 with "narrowed dural tube".
  • (5) Moderate or marked brain and dural enhancement was noted in nearly every patient imaged within 3 months of surgery, but all brain enhancement was gone by 1 year.
  • (6) In addition, it proposes a modification of the standard dural closure that may reduce the incidence of contributory adhesive arachnoiditis by the creation of a capacious cerebrospinal fluid space about the neural plaque.
  • (7) Dural attachment is frequent, calcifications are not.
  • (8) Left angiography, performed in August, 1975, revealed a dural arteriovenous malformation, which was supplied by enlarged left middle meningeal artery, occipital artery, meningohypophyseal artery and superior cerebellar artery and was draining into the left sigmoid sinus.
  • (9) At this stage any attempt at definitive removal of diseased tissue would necessarily result in a larger dural defect at a time when local disease and systemic illness present unsuitable conditions for reparative procedures.
  • (10) The authors report a case of growing skull fracture in which watertight dural closure was difficult at the first operation because a dural defect extended deep into the middle fossa.
  • (11) The intraoperative dural damage did not require specific treatment, while the patients with discitis responded readily with antibiotics.
  • (12) The third cerebral angiography after right SDP (synangio-dural plasty), 49 months after the initial angiography, revealed, in the right angiography, newly formed anastomotic vessels perfusing the middle cerebral artery region via the extracerebral arteries and in the left cerebral angiography, and an increased obstruction of the ICA terminal portion, transdural anastomosis via the extracerebral arterial system, and a decrease of moyamoya vessels in the basal area.
  • (13) In meningiomas, a flat, contrast-enhancing, probably dural structure adjacent to the tumor can occasionally be observed on Gadolinium-DTPA enhanced MR images.
  • (14) In an experimental model using the New Zealand White Rabbit the materials were implanted into dural defects of dimensions 1.7 cm by 1 cm.
  • (15) The authors present a patient who developed an acute hemorrhage around a Silastic dural substitute 13 weeks after excision of a meningioma and implantation of the graft.
  • (16) The classic concept that DAVMs arise in direct relationship with the dural sinuses is limited.
  • (17) The frequent concurrent venous abnormalities are easily understood as (a) retention of fetal anatomical features and (b) frequent occlusions of the dural sinuses of the posterior fossa, especially the sigmoid sinuses.
  • (18) Thirteen (72%) of the 18 meningiomas exhibited the finding adjacent to the dural attachments.
  • (19) No post-dural puncture headache was observed in the CSA group.
  • (20) The clinical picture of dural arteriovenous malformations cannot be explained on the basis of degree of arteriovenous shunting in many cases.

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