(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.
Uvula
Definition:
(n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.
Example Sentences:
(1) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
(2) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(3) The morphology of the musculus uvulae was studied utilizing detailed gross anatomical dissection and histological sectioning of the soft palate in seven adult human cadavers.
(4) Therefore, 90 patients with documented obstructive sleep apnea were evaluated by cephalometric technique, with special attention paid to the size and position of the soft palate and uvula, volume and position of the tongue, mandibulo-maxillary relationship, hyoid position, and size of the pharyngeal airway space.
(5) The projection to the uvula is organized according to the pattern determined previously for pontine projections to other parts of the cerebellum.
(6) It has been determined that submucous cleft palate can occur even when a peroral examination shows an intact uvula.
(7) The responses of Purkinje cells and presumed mossy fibers to natural stimulation of the horizontal semicircular canals were recorded in the nodulus and uvula of rabbit vestibulocerebellum.
(8) Electrical stimulation of the flocculus or uvula evoked the early and late climbing fiber responses in the nodulus.
(9) With regard to musculus uvulae, small muscular bundles arise from the raphe to embrace the muscle near its crest.
(10) Operative damage to the sphincter apparatus below the uvula vesicae is the most serious complication of prostatic surgery.
(11) As to the climbing fiber projection, it is revealed that there are six longitudinal parasagittal zone extending throughout the dorsal and ventral uvula.
(12) Thus, the uvula is a highly sophisticated structure, capable of producing a large quantity of fluid saliva that can be excreted in a short time.
(13) From a distinctly separate region of the caudal medial accessory nucleus (as well as the principal nucleus), axons project to the uvula.
(14) During the same time the lesions of KS on the gingiva, uvula and the body as well as the face disappeared.
(15) In order to determine the frequency of association between bifid uvula and submucous clefting, a total ascertainment of children with bifid uvula from a suburban pediatric practice was examined nasopharyngoscopically.
(16) A study of velopharyngeal status after partial excision of musculus uvulae, as in total uvulectomy, has been carried out in 15 adults with normally formed soft palates.
(17) For example, in the medial nucleus the sites of origin of fibers to the flocculus and uvula are different.
(18) Carcinoma of the soft palate and uvula is a rare form of oropharyngeal neoplasm with incidence ranging from 5% to 12% of all oropharyngeal carcinomas.
(19) The proband, whose mother and brother had facial clefting, showed inconspicuous abnormalities of the lower lip and a bifid uvula.
(20) Most of the narrowings were located at the level of oropharynx, which was correspondent to the level of the soft palate and the uvula.