What's the difference between dura and dural?

Dura


Definition:

  • (n.) Short form for Dura mater.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
  • (2) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
  • (3) Within the arachnoid mater the immunoreactivity was concentrated in the basal zone of the arachnoid membrane, thus appearing as a narrow fluorescent band near the border of the dura.
  • (4) Simultaneous opening of the dura mater on both sides with slow evacuation of the contents of the hematomas is an important stage of surgical intervention in BTSH.
  • (5) HRP labeled cells were located bilaterally, always more ipsilaterally, in DRG of C1, C2, C3, and SCG with application of HRP to all three regions of the dura.
  • (6) When administered at high concentrations (1 mg kg-1) methiothepin and metergoline decreased plasma protein extravasation in rat dura mater.
  • (7) Unilateral spreading cortical depression was elicited by applying potassium chloride solutions to the dura of conscious, freely moving rats.
  • (8) Some occipital types of headache, "venous headache" or "strain headache", may benefit of a cross section of the occipital dura mater.
  • (9) The ES value is determined by differences in rates of size increment of the vertebral canal and in rates of size increment of the spinal cord dura mater (SCDM).
  • (10) the sphenoid, ethmoid, and occipital bones) and to abnormal spatial relationships between the cribriform plate and the crista galli, resulting in a positional disarrangement of the points of basal attachment of the dura matter.
  • (11) Traumatic lesions of the anterior cranial fossa (ACF) with comminuted depressed fractures and with tears of dura require operative management.
  • (12) We now report that, compared to controls, rats with acute EAE exhibit fewer detectable mast cells in their dura mater and velum interpositum.
  • (13) At each target point, after opening the dura and using stereotactic coordinates and equipment, a microbiopsy forceps was used to place "micropatties" (each with a string tail) or small catheters with pledgets or catheter tips located at tumor edges.
  • (14) A middle-aged woman presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies, hemiparesis, and CSF pleocytosis had tuberculous infection of the cranial dura mater at autopsy.
  • (15) After ligation of BCCA, the 5-HT granules of the walls of the brain vessels and the CA fibers of dura mater vessels decreased, but CA fibers occurred in the walls of the brain arteries.
  • (16) The risk of hemorrhage, perforation of the dura, and nerve root irritation is increased in scoliotic or elderly patients with a narrow spinal canal.
  • (17) Quantitative and qualitative composition of catecholamines (noradrenaline and dophamine) and indolalkylamines (serotonin and tryptamine) and their localization have been studied in cells and neural fibers of the rat dura mater.
  • (18) However, mast cells did not degranulate following electrical trigeminal stimulation, or after injection of drugs (capsaicin or substance P) which promote plasma extravasation in the dura.
  • (19) MRI demonstrated hypertrophic dura mater in the posterior fossa and compressed cervical spinal cord.
  • (20) Microspheres were used to measure blood flow to the dura and brain in anesthetized dogs.

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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