(n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The right occipital lobe is retracted laterally from the falx cerebri.
(2) A complex form of pluridistrectual dysmorphic disorder (hypertelorism, prognathism, frontal bossing, multiple cysts of the mandible, calcification in falx cerebri, etc) was also present, suggesting a limited form of Gorlin's syndrome (nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome).
(3) These findings led to an initial diagnosis of falx meningioma.
(4) Frequently, the wall of the posterior vein adheres to the falx cerebri, presenting ascendant trajet to the inferior wall of the sinus.
(5) Evaluation of falx images on CT scan was done in 964 normal or abnormal cases in relation to different CT slice level, age, sex, pineal body and habenula and choroid plexus.
(6) The autopsy confirmed the diagnosis of melorheostosis and revealed a meningioma of falx cerebri in close proximity to predominantly intraventricular calcified tissue.
(7) Calcification of the falx cerebri of the dura mater, as well as other areas of the brain, have been reported.
(8) It is suggested that other characteristics of the syndrome, such as jaw cysts, palmar and plantar pitting and calcification of the falx cerebri will develop as the patient grows older.
(9) The article analyses the late results of surgical treatment of 123 patients with parasagittal meningiomas of various localization along the superior sagittal sinus (SSS) and falx cerebri (FC).
(10) The tumour originated from the falx in the left fronto-parietal region near the paracentral lobule.
(11) The incidence of calcification in the choroid plexus and the falx cerebri was also considerably less than previously reported.
(12) The bright midline echo observed in fetal cranial sonography has been termed by many authors the "falx cerebri."
(13) The falx meningioma recurred locally and repeatedly, despite radiation therapy and chemoimmunotherapy.
(14) Computed tomography scan in a 43-year-old woman revealed a fusiform mass involving the falx.
(15) A case of a recurrent hemangiopericytoma of the falx which responded well to radiotherapy is reported.
(16) A report of an interhemispheric ependymoma with classical angiographic characteristics of falx meningioma illustrates that a neoplasm of intracerebral origin may present in a predomimantly extracerebral location.
(17) After the second operation, repeated recurrence of multiple tumors was seen, which were in the frontal, parietal and occipital convexities, parasagittal regions and falx.
(18) A postmortem specimen of densely "calcified" falx cerebri was examined that revealed cortical bone and a medullary cavity complete with bony trabeculae and marrow.
(19) The configuration of Model III is the same as Model II but more detailed anatomical features of the head interior were added, such as, cerebral spinal fluid (CSF); falx cerebri, dura, and tentorium.
(20) Thin wall was enhanced smoothly and the nodule attached to the falx was enhanced heterogeneously.
Partition
Definition:
(v.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
(v.) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions.
(v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
(v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
(v.) A score.
(v. t.) To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.
(v. t.) To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relative rates of reduction of several spin-labeled molecules that partition differently across the hy-drophobic-interface of inner membranes from rat liver mitochondria were investigated.
(2) Isoprenylated proteins were enriched in the detergent phase upon partition with the non-ionic detergent Triton X-114.
(3) This provides unequivocal evidence that partitioning is the dominant form of retention for small nonpolar solutes.
(4) Folch extraction and partition followed by silicic acid column chromatography revealed the antigens to be glycolipids.
(5) The volume changes of the respiratory system were partitioned using an inductance plethysmograph.
(6) Equilibrium-partitioning measurements indicate that the relative affinities of different probes for PC-rich vesicles, in competition with HODMA or DOTAP vesicles, increase with increasing hydrogen-bonding capacity of the probe headgroup in the order PC less than N,N-dimethyl PE less than N-methyl PE less than PE approximately phosphatidyl-2-amino-1-propanol.
(7) The partition ratio of 2.0 obtained for the reaction with L 658758 approaches that of an optimal inhibitor.
(8) In addition, our data suggest that part of the difference may reside in differential partitioning of lipid into lysosomes.
(9) Changing the partition of the load on the femoral surface and the permeability at the tibial surface changes the time-dependent response, but has little effect on the strain distributions at times of the order of 5 s considered in this study.
(10) This symmetry, with respect to the sign of the charge, indicates that discreteness-of-charge effects are not significant in determining the potential-sensitive phase partitioning of these probes in model membranes.
(11) At pH 7.0, acrylamide partitions between the bulk aqueous phase and the proteins, human serum albumin, monellin and ovalbumin.
(12) Two-phase systems consisting of water, dextran and poly(ethylene glycol) have been used for partition of membranes obtained from Torpedo marmorata electric organ.
(13) P61 is solubilized by Triton X-114 treatment of membranes and partitions into the detergent phase upon warming.
(14) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
(15) The history of the relationship of biological activity to partition coefficient and related properties is briefly reviewed.
(16) Triton X-114 solubilized material from both the virulent and attenuated strains, which partitioned into the hydrophobic, detergent phase, contained LLS and major proteins of 41 and 44 kDa, which were also immunoprecipitable from intact organisms.
(17) This may lead to large errors in pathological tissue because the partition coefficient changes significantly in brain tumors.
(18) Experimental data are presented for: (a) the flux of diflorasone diacetate through hairless mouse skin, (b) the percutaneous penetration profile of propylene glycol, (c) the effects of vehicle concentrations of polyoxypropylene 15 stearyl ether and propylene glycol on the percutaneous flux of diflorasone diacetate, (d) skin--vehicle partition coefficients of diflorasone diacetate, (e) the solubility profile of diflorasone diacetate as a function of solvent concentration, and (f) the alteration of the skin's resistance to the penetration of diflorasone diacetate due to propylene glycol.
(19) Our present results thus provide parameters for the separation of cells by partition in addition to or instead of membrane charge depending on the polymer and salt composition and concentration selected.
(20) A methanol-aqueous KCl extraction is used, followed by cleanup with clarifying agents and partition into chloroform.