What's the difference between foramen and lingula?
Foramen
Definition:
(n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete facetectomy (36 observations) exposes the foramen well but has a little risk of destabilisation.
(2) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(3) Progressive narrowing of the bulboventricular foramen is documented in four patients with single ventricle.
(4) CT brain scans showed an enlarged foramen magnum in the mother and daughter but magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed no brainstem abnormality in either.
(5) Since fractures of the foramen triosseum are usually not surgically repairable, they can be stabilized with coaptation splints.
(6) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
(7) The septum primum, as the valve of the foramen ovale, has been previously described as a mobile, echogenic line or dot in the left atrium.
(8) The authors described a fluoroscopic method of guiding percutaneous needle penetration of the foramen ovale.
(9) The average thickness of the corpus callosum at the level of the foramen of Monro was 6 mm in normal subjects and was reduced below 6 mm in 16 of the hydrocephalus patients.
(10) Hydrocephalus and valvular impaction of the cerebellum in the foramen magnum were demonstrated.
(11) With systole there is downward (caudal) flow of CSF in the aqueduct of Sylvius, the foramen of Magendie, the basal cisterns and the dorsal and ventral subarachnoid spaces while during diastole, upward (cranial) flow of CSF in these same structures is seen.
(12) The cecal foramen pointer was invented for a Sistrunk median cervical cyst operation.
(13) Enlargement in an adjacent conjugating foramen forms a tumour which may narrow the spinal canal (1 case diagnosed by CAT) or erode the vertebral body, so compromising the spinal support.
(14) The earliest perfect ring-shaped formation of the foramen ovale is observed in the 7th fetal month and the latest in 3 years after birth.
(15) Arterial oxygen tension was lower in patients with a patent foramen ovale (mean 55 [SD 14] vs 62 [16] mm Hg, p = 0.038).
(16) Body weight was not correlated with foramen magnum area in 25 specimens of savannah sparrow, Ammodramus sandwichensis.
(17) The common tumors originating in the jugular foramen are chemodectoma and schwannoma.
(18) They are determined primarily by (a) the pulpal response of an immature tooth to trauma, and (b) the mechanical difficulties encountered when attempts are made to obturate the root canal of a tooth with a widely patent apical foramen.
(19) Successful penetration of the foramen was achieved in 39 of 46 injections on cadavers and in six injections on five patients.
(20) A patient with symptomatic oscillopsia without downbeat nystagmus, who was diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging to have displaced cerebellar tonsils below the foramen magnum, is presented here.
Lingula
Definition:
(n.) A tonguelike process or part.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Part of the fibers was mixed with the spheno-mandibular ligament and attaches on the lingula of the mandible.
(2) Using both a morphometric and a semiquantitative grading system (r = 0.80), we noted that both fibrosis and pulmonary vasculopathy were more evident in the lingula than in either of the 2 other lung segments (p less than 0.05 ANOVA, Newman-Keul test).
(3) These strongly suggest that the fibrous structure of organic matrix assists the orientation of apatite crystals in Lingula unguis shell.
(4) The regional distribution of [3H]etorphine binding sites in the rabbit cerebellum points toward concentrations higher in the neocerebellum (hemispheres) than in the archecerebellum (lingula and flocculonodular lobe).
(5) A previously unreported pattern of MAC-PD was observed: disease limited to the lingula or middle lobe occurred in 21% of the patients, all female.
(6) Collapse of the left lower lobe is sometimes accompanied by linear atelectasis in the lingula.
(7) The lavage was performed two months after radiotherapy, in the anterior part of the lingula (left side) or of the right middle lobe (right side), depending on which side had been exposed to radiation.
(8) The lingula was exposed sterilely through a left thoracotomy.
(9) The amino acid sequence of the beta chain of hemerythrin from Lingula unguis was determined.
(10) A well-circumscribed nodular mass was excised from the lingula of the left lung of a 40-year-old-female.
(11) Measurements were made to locate vertically the point of fusion of the buccal and lingual cortical plates relative to the lingula and to the depth of the sigmoid notch.
(12) The modified nucleoside, 7-(4,5-cis-dihydroxy-1-cyclopenten-3-yl-aminomethyl)-7-deazaguanosine, designated as Q, and its derivative, Q*, were found in tRNA's from various organisms, including several mammalian tissues, other animals such as starfish, lingula and hagfish, and wheat germ.
(13) This was not a function of vessel size, since the overall cumulative distribution curve of percent muscle divided by length of internal elastic lamina was also shifted between lingula and lower lobe.
(14) Meckel's cartilage appeared as a single, continuous fibrous structure lying between the mandibular lingula and the malleus of the middle ear in fetuses of 210 mm crown-rump length (22 weeks of age) and over.
(15) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
(16) Subsegmental bronchi of the left inferior lingula were seen in only 17%, but other subsegmental bronchi in greater than 75%.
(17) The middle lobe was the most common site of bronchiectatic involvement, followed by the lower lobes and the lingula.
(18) Even in a normal-sized mandibular ramus, a high lingula places the medial cut in a thin region where there is little or no cancellous bone.
(19) In 20 of the nonimmunocompromised patients, computed tomography was performed prior to biopsy, and demonstrated no particular tendency for greater involvement of the lingula or right middle lobe.
(20) An increase in the identification rate of the segmental bronchi of the middle lobe and lingula was achieved only after reducing the slice thickness from 8 mm to 4 mm, the yield being now 87% (512 image matrix) and 82% (256 image matrix), respectively, whereas the remaining segmental bronchi could be made to show up almost without exception.