(n.) A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.
Example Sentences:
(1) The median time to intubation with the gum elastic bougie while simulating an 'epiglottis only' view was only 10 s longer than the time taken during conventional intubation with an optimum view.
(2) Matrix vesicles in the elastic cartilage of epiglottis were negative for acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, and ATPase.
(3) The incidence of airway obstruction secondary to downfolding of the epiglottis, which was corrected by reinsertion, was 16%.
(4) CR-ir was also observed in nerve fibers surrounding neuronal cell bodies in autonomic ganglia, and in nerve endings in the lip, tongue, incisal papilla, soft palate, pharynx and epiglottis.
(5) About 60 patients were described in the literature, and the epiglottis was primarily involved in only three.
(6) The administration of these drugs was followed within 2-3 minutes by oedema of the eyelids and epiglottis, reduced peripheral circulation and central cyanosis.
(7) None of 57 people without cancer (including 10 with current and 18 with recurrent HSV 1 or HSV 2 infections), none of 81 patients with 20 other varieties of advanced cancer (gum, tongue, tonsil, salivary gland, accessory sinus, epiglottis, lung-bronchus, stomach, colon, breast, corpus uteri, ovary, testis, liver, thyroid, Wilms' embryonal kidney, melanoma, Hodgkin's disease, acute lymphocytic leukemia, and acute myelocytic leukemia), and none of four women with early malignant changes in the cervix uteri gave positive results.
(8) A fiberoptic laryngoscope which allows direct visualization of the deep pharynx and epiglottis has been developed for transoral tracheal intubation of small laboratory mammals.
(9) We suggest that specializations of the soft palate and epiglottis in dogs for thermal panting appear to restrict the formation of an adequate oropharyngeal seal during feeding.
(10) We conclude that: 1) Snoring is characterized by high frequency oscillations of the soft palate, pharyngeal walls, epiglottis and tongue.
(11) Involvement of the muscles of the soft palate, epiglottis causes saliva and pharyngeal secret flowing into the bronchi which leads to asphyxia.
(12) The commonly found supraglottic laryngitis on the laryngeal aspect of the epiglottis was seen in combination with histologically proven infections in the upper and lower respiratory tract.
(13) In two patients, clinical manifestations were similar to abscess formation of acute epiglottitis and in one patient productive inflammation of the epiglottis and its ulceration resembled epiglottis carcinoma.
(14) Multiple sections are cut from the caudal larynx toward the epiglottis, unstained sections examined microscopically for orientation, and sections from target areas selected for staining and histopathologic examination.
(15) Plain and contrast radiography were used to demonstrate a soft palate remnant and to identify structures rostral to the epiglottis.
(16) A patient's epiglottis became trapped between the pliable grates in the mask portion of the laryngeal mask and partially obstructed his airway.
(17) This site is located at the base of the epiglottis, cranial to the ventral laryngeal diverticulum (ventral pouch).
(18) Concurrent burst suppression and alpha pattern coma developed in the EEG of a 2-year-old child who suffered a cardiac arrest secondary to hypoxemia from Haemophilus influenza epiglottis.
(19) We report the first documented case of a chondrosarcoma of the epiglottis.
(20) The A2B blood group was significantly more frequent in patients with epiglottis cancer and in those with laryngeal cancer.
Glottis
Definition:
(n.) The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, an association of tiapride-corticoids was effective in treating post-anaesthetic spasm of the glottis.
(2) The values of dysphonic patients with incomplete closure of the glottis are significantly different from the other two groups.
(3) This reinforces our initial findings that it is indeed feasible to pace vocal cord abduction in bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis with resultant return of physiologic normality to the glottis.
(4) Subglottic stenosis is a disorder characterized by narrowing of the airway below the glottis or apposing edges of the true vocal cords.
(5) It was concluded that incomplete glottal closure of the posterior parts of glottis should be regarded as normal primarily in women and that loudness should be taken into consideration when studying glottal closure and breathiness.
(6) With this procedure, the new glottis is pressed strongly to the tongue base during swallowing and aspiration is avoided.
(7) Nervous outflow to the muscles of the glottis, diaphragm, abdominal wall, tail and rear legs changed as would be expected from both the postural changes and the increases in intratracheal and intra-abdominal pressure.
(8) In the last five years of the period, the 5-year local control rate for stage I and II carcinoma of the glottis, excluding verrucous-like carcinoma, reached 90% with 10 MV X-rays combined with 60Co gamma-rays.
(9) The posterior glottis is an area of the larynx previously referred to by the terms 'posterior commissure' and 'interarytenoid'; these are poorly defined and a new definition of this unique area of the larynx is provided.
(10) The smallest laser bronchoscope is usually too large to pass through the glottis.
(11) The results indicate a firm and relatively long closure of the glottis during overtone phonation.
(12) Larynx resistance changes have been studied in the dog by means of in situ isolated glottis technique.
(13) One hundred ninety patients with T2 and 70 patients with T3 carcinoma of the glottis were treated by definitive radiation therapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1952 to 1978; the results were analyzed.
(14) This article examines benign lesions of the glottis and adjacent structures commonly encountered in clinical practice.
(15) To determine the role a competent glottis played in improving gas exchange, we anesthetized seven rabbits and inserted central venous and carotid artery catheters.
(16) The reflex effect elicited by mechanical stimulation of the glottis has been studied in dogs.
(17) The glottis was closely observed and photographed from above and below in three conditions: neutral, adduction, and abduction.
(18) The posterior glottis acts as a "weir" between the pharynx and larynx and so is intimately involved with diseases as they affect one area to the other.
(19) The cancer spread may superiorly involve the epilarynx, the vallecula, the base of the tongue, and the pyriform fossa; however, inferiorly, the invasion of the glottis is quite exceptional (1 percent of cases); therefore, supraglottic laryngectomy is the operation of choice.
(20) 2) This difference was presumed to be due to (1) vocal cord phase differences in horizontal and vertical components, (2) the location of the light source and that of photosensor from the glottis, and (3) ULG beam width in relation to vertical movements of the vocal cords.