(1) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(2) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
(3) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(4) Six patients, two of whom developed sciatic neuropathy, demonstrated complete flattening of the SSEP.
(5) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(6) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(7) In an effort to decrease the treatment time for this technique, the flattening filter has been removed from an AECL Therac-6 linear accelerator and the characteristics of the resulting beam have been measured.
(8) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(9) The flattening of neutrophils occurred soon after settling, and was not followed by extension.
(10) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(11) The EWRGP group showed a mean flattening in corneal curvature of 0.11 and 0.15 mm in the flattest and steepest corneal meridians, respectively.
(12) The lining epithelium was a single layer of flattened or cuboidal endocervical cells.
(13) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
(14) In older children, there were a low vertebral signal and disappearance of the disc-vertebra borders on T1-weighted images and a high vertebral signal with a decreased and flattened disc signal on T2-weighted images.
(15) Poorly-differentiated tissue produced a more haphazard out-growth of pleomorphic cells with few processes and flattened pseudopodia.
(16) In the past, ovarian cancer was more common in higher social classes, but sociocultural differences seem to have flattened off over recent decades.
(17) In the SEM three corresponding types were identified, a relatively smooth spherical type, a highly ruffled type and a fairly smooth flattened type.
(18) This change in shape varied from a slight flattening of the LV and IVS during diastole to total reversal of the normal direction of septal curvature such that the IVS became concave toward the RV and convex toward the LV.
(19) By phase-contrast microscopy of living cells and in more detail by scanning electron microscopy, the megakaryocytes showed a nonreversible adherence, an extensive formation of filopodia around the periphery like the rays of the sun, and a tendency toward flattening.
(20) The nerve bundles, encircled by basal lamina, were enclosed by a thin connective tissue layer and by flattened fibroblast-like cells.
Scaphocephaly
Definition:
(n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report a 2-year-old Moslem Arab boy with 28 of the 32 originally described features of this syndrome and in addition with hyperelastic joints, hypospadias and scaphocephaly which were not previously described in association with the Kabuki make-up syndrome.
(2) The other congenital deformities included scaphocephaly, somewhat low-set ears, accessory tragi, a high arched palate, and funnel chest.
(3) Coronal craniostenosis seems to be a dominant autosomal character, when scaphocephaly is more often sporadic; for both, an autosomal dominant inheritance is not excluded for some pedigrees.
(4) Eight infants had scaphocephaly with prominent occipital shelving.
(5) Two children from a small Amerindian community presented with profound retardation, initial hypotonia progressing to hypertonia, scaphocephaly, a prominent occiput, poor postnatal head growth, and additional minor anomalies.
(6) Premature fusion of the sagittal and lambdoid suture led to scaphocephaly.
(7) Four illustrative cases of scaphocephaly, all treated with midline linear craniectomy, with uneventful postoperative follow-up periods of more than 4 years, are reported.
(8) We describe two female siblings with similar clinical features consisting of hydrocephalus, scaphocephaly, hypotonia, mongoloid eye slant, blepharophimosis, micrognathia, supernumerary mouth frenula and mental retardation.
(9) Finally, the authors certify the frequency and the seriousness of ocular repercussion, even in so called benign types of cranio-stenoses, such as plagiocephaly, trigonocephaly, and scaphocephaly.
(10) The authors report, concerning 115 cas of scaphocephaly, the clinical (spheno., lepto., bathmo., clino., the kinds without dolichocephaly) radiological characteristics (temporal curve without dolichocephaly), orbito-sphenoidal obliquity regressing after treatment).
(11) Besides, two patients with scaphocephaly and one with plagiocephaly showed low perfusion area in unilateral cerebral hemisphere.
(12) Postoperatively, only 14.5% had minor clinical signs, which were mostly not in relation to the former scaphocephaly.
(13) A series of 50 consecutive patients with scaphocephaly treated by a new operation are reported, and the results are reviewed in detail.
(14) We report the clinical features and neurosurgical management of a 9-month-old girl with cranioectodermal dysplasia and scaphocephaly.
(15) The clinical manifestations of MPS are frequently dwarfism, scaphocephaly, grotesque facial features with snub nose, hypertelorism, macroglossia and dental anomalies.
(16) In addition to the effect on the neurocranium, the extended craniectomies add to normalization of the base of the skull (in contrast to the natural history of scaphocephaly).
(17) A technique for the correction of scaphocephaly is described.
(18) On the cranial deformities, 7 cases of scaphocephaly, 4 cases of oxycephaly and 3 cases of acrocephaly were diagnosed.
(19) To the median sagittal craniectomy, one can add retrocoronal, pre lambdoid or metopic craniectomies according to the type of scaphocephaly.
(20) This article reports a retrospective quantitative (cephalic index) evaluation of the effect that two different operations for treatment of scaphocephaly secondary to sagittal synostosis have on cranial shape.