(n.) An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.
(n.) Same as Aesthesiometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) An esthesiometer was used to measure the corneal sensitivity in unoperated-on corneas and fellow corneas after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.
(2) The five devices include the Semmes-Weinstein monofilament (touch); three-point esthesiometer (two-point discrimination); Pfizer thermal tester (temperature); biothesiometer (vibration); and Optacon tactile tester (vibration).
(3) Using the Cochet-Bonnet esthesiometer, we evaluated the corneal sensation of 11 patients with unilateral Adie's tonic pupil.
(4) In a randomized, prospective, parallel double-blind clinical trial with positive and negative placebo control, the corneal sensitivity of 30 subjects with normal eyes was measured using the Cochet & Bonnet esthesiometer prior to and 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, and 30 minutes after topical application of levobunolol 0.5% (Vistagan 0.5% Liquifilm, Pharm-Allergan Vertrieb GmbH, Karlsruhe; 20 eyes).
(5) Degraded tactile spatial resolution, as measured by step and gap detection with an esthesiometer, has been found, on the average, in stages 2 and 3 of the Taylor-Pelmear classification for vibration-induced white finger (VWF).
(6) By means of an electronic optical esthesiometer corneal sensitivity was examined in 91 volunteers of different age groups.
(7) Using the Cochet-Bonnet esthesiometer, a sensation was recorded in the center of the graft no earlier than 18 months.
(8) Oxybuprocain 0.4% causes corneal sensitivity to decrease below the measuring range of Cochet and Bonnet's esthesiometer (200 mg) for about 10 minutes.
(9) Eight different stimuli from the Semmes-Weinstein esthesiometer were used; forces ranged from 68 mg to 3.6 gm.
(10) For the measurements, a Cochet-Bonnet esthesiometer was utilized.
(11) The corneal sensations were measured serially with an esthesiometer.
(12) Proxymetacain 0.5% reduced corneal sensitivity to below the upper limit of the Cochet & Bonnet esthesiometer (200 mg) for up to 10 minutes.
(13) The purpose of our study was to determine, by use of the electronic Draeger esthesiometer in quantitative, reproductive measurements, the corneal sensitivity in 55 patients with medically treated idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia before and after surgical treatment of the trigeminal nerve and root.
(14) Dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials was the most sensitive of these tests, and reflected the duration of the lumbosacral radiculopathy better than the biothesiometer and the Semmes-Weinstein esthesiometer.
(15) This esthesiometer has a 6 cm long, adjustable nylon monofilament, which can be reduced in length by 0.5 cm at a time, the length of the filament determining the pressure exerted onto the corneal surface.
(16) The tongues of 34 infants between 31 and 40 weeks estimated gestational age were stimulated with filament esthesiometers.
(17) These measurements were made with the Draeger electronic-optical esthesiometer; the results were supplemented by an analysis of tumor diameters determined by computer tomography.
(18) The biothesiometer and Semmes-Weinstein esthesiometer reflected the clinical severity of sensory dysfunctions, the extent of numbness, and the immediate change in sensory function better than the dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials.
(19) Thus, a 47-year-old male with Fabry's disease was examined with Cochet-Bonnet's esthesiometer, photokeratometry, ultrasonography, electropupillography, electroretinography, electro-oculography and fluorescein fundus angiography.
(20) A quantitative evaluation of sensory disturbance of the foot was attempted in 94 cases of lumbosacral radiculopathy using the biothesiometer, the Semmes-Weinstein esthesiometer, light touch, tuning fork, and dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials.
Tactile
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(2) Study I findings did not provide support for synergistic mechanisms; nonorthogonal analysis of variance showed interaction effects (CRT x IT) restricted to tactile-perceptual speed.
(3) For tactile modalities, a lesion of the spinothalamic complex causes minimal or no defects and a lesion of the posterior columns causes only slight defects, whereas a lesion of both pathways gives rise to total loss of tactile and pressure sensibility in the part of the body served by both pathways.
(4) More importantly, motor and cardiovascular responses to startle may be separated through discrimination of afferent stimuli suggesting either differences in neural pathways for acoustic and tactile stimuli or a differential dependency of the various responses on stimulus characteristics.
(5) Animals were trained to perform an orientation match-to-sample task using either a visual or a tactile orientation sample.
(6) Simple screening tests for visual and tactile inattention were used to investigate the influence of perceptual deficits on predictions for the outcome of acute stroke.
(7) The position of the visual receptive field of these neurons did not change after saccadic eyes displacements, but remained in-register with the tactile receptive field.
(8) Complete transection of the thoracic spinal cord eliminated both thermally elicited responses and orienting responses to noxious and tactile mechanical stimulation of the hindlimbs.
(9) The similarity between type III cells and Merkel cells (cells of the tactile system) was surprising.
(10) The level of the DA metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) increases only in pups receiving both odor and tactile stimulation and peaks at about 200% of baseline.
(11) IR is considered to be caused by a group of neurons in the brain stem which inhibit spinal motoneurons, either directly or indirectly, when those inhibitory neurons are activated by a specific pattern of tactile and proprioceptive input.
(12) Although they may occur spontaneously, they are commonly precipitated by tactile stimulation or movement of the extremity.
(13) The oscillatory activity was not affected by anesthesia, but it was often reduced by tactile stimulation or self-initiated movements.
(14) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
(15) The usefulness of tactile devices as aids to lipreading has been established.
(16) Tactile stimuli were applied to the right index fingertip at intervals ranging from 63 to 1,000 msec after the completion of rapid thumb movement.
(17) We previously reported a modality-specific layering of leg sensory axons in the CNS of the flies Phormia regina and Drosophila melanogaster with tactile and gustatory axons projecting into a ventral layer and the proprioceptive hair plate axons into an intermediate layer.
(18) Profound inhibitions of the second phase were also produced by tactile segmental stimulation and noxious stimuli applied to widespread areas of the body (diffuse noxious inhibitory controls).
(19) The apparatus is easily constructed, easily operated, and markedly increases the control of variables in tactile form perception experiments.
(20) Double burst stimulation (DBS) is a new nerve stimulation pattern introduced to facilitate tactile evaluation of recovery from neuromuscular blockade.