What's the difference between falx and peritoneum?
Falx
Definition:
(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.
Peritoneum
Definition:
(n.) The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac.
Example Sentences:
(1) This implies that these proteins are quantitatively absorbed from the peritoneum without undergoing modifications.
(2) Immunohistochemical insulin proofs were positive in the peritoneum over a period of 3 months and in the liver up to one year after implantation.
(3) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
(4) Various parts of the peritoneum were equipotential with venous blood.
(5) In 25 rabbits, endometrium from the right uterine horn was transplanted onto the peritoneum (Experimental group = Group E).
(6) First, CAPD exposes essentially continuously the peritoneum to peritoneal dialysis solutions.
(7) Bacterial infections of the peritoneum may be primary (pneumococcal peritonitis of childhood).
(8) On day 5 of enalapril treatment, an osmotic minipump was implanted in the peritoneum that caused sustained release of ANG II (200 ng.kg-1.min-1) or vehicle (bovine serum albumin) for 3 or 7 days.
(9) This report is the first published demonstration of the existence of fenestrated capillaries in human parietal and rabbit diaphragmatic peritoneum.
(10) Also numerous small knots on the small intestine, peritoneum, and omentum, as well as a considerable amount of ascites were observed.
(11) In the authors' four cases the problems were solved anatomically and functionally by suturing only the mesenterium of the terminal ileum to the edge of the previously cut peritoneum.
(12) Polypropylene mesh is then passed down the laparoscope, placed into the defect to obliterate the space, and the edges of the peritoneum are then reapproximated.
(13) The injection in the peritoneum of Limulus amebocyte lysate at the same time of inoculation of lethal dose of E. coli LPS is able to protect the rats against endotoxin lethality.
(14) A hernial sac originating from the peritoneum near the oesophagogastric junction contained the midgut which had herniated through the oesophageal hiatus.
(15) Although no changes could be detected in the conventional B lymphocyte population, the peritoneum was replete with B cells characteristic of the Ly-1 lineage.
(16) They are then filled with 5.104 macrophages obtained from the peritoneum of normal mice suspended in 100 mul of medium 199 supplemented with bovine serum albumin.
(17) Endolymphatic administration of kanamycin provided an increase in its activity in the inflamed tissues of the peritoneum and omentum and markedly prolonged its halflife as compared to those after the routine intramuscular administration of the drug.
(18) A new culdocentesis system is presented, based on vacuum fixation of the posterior vaginal wall together with Douglas peritoneum in a small vacuum cup, enabling a controllable central perpendicular puncture with a special catheter-needle unit.
(19) The sites of ENM included lung and thoracic lymph nodes (2), pleura and peritoneum (2), and liver (1).
(20) The reservoir is placed outside the peritoneum, in a pre-peritoneal position, in order to allow its fixation by adhesions to the abdominal wall.