What's the difference between forehead and nasofrontal?
Forehead
Definition:
(n.) The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
(n.) The aspect or countenance; assurance.
(n.) The front or fore part of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) Average exposure during angiocardiography to the forehead was 3.2 mrem., to the hand 4.2 mrem.
(2) Is there not enough material available, can neck-, breast-or forehead flaps cover the defect, although they do not fulfill the demands for a satisfactory restoration of specific function.
(3) After all those years imagining what he would look like; first his hair, then his forehead and then those blue, blue eyes gradually revealed themselves.
(4) Report on a 79 years old female patient with a giant basalioma terebrans which has been growing for 15 years at the forehead.
(5) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(6) Traumatic endothelial rings were observed in the cornea obtained from a 4-year-old boy after a fatal gunshot wound to the forehead.
(7) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(8) These changes comprised macrocephaly, prominent forehead, micrognathia, large fontanelle, flat nasal bridge, low-set ears, facial capillary naevi, cardiac defect and small size for gestational age.
(9) For the treatment of defects of the lateral nasal wall, in addition to the insular flap operation from the nasolabial region and the forehead, the medial frontal flap technique as described by Kazanjian is particularly recommended.
(10) When she returned she had a large bruise on her forehead.
(11) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(12) (Has anyone come across a couple who have tried this successfully, without one smashing the bottle of wine across the other's forehead?
(13) Common signs and symptoms include forehead laceration and deformity, and fracture of the frontal sinus.
(14) Large defects after Mohs' surgery for these lesions may involve the nose, cheek, forehead, and other parts of the face as well as the eyelids, medial canthus, and lacrimal drainage system.
(15) The P100 latency was measured at Oz with a forehead reference (Pz, O1 and O2 channels were also recorded).
(16) forehead for 0-3 days, chest for 4-5 days, sternum for 6 days and later).
(17) Its utility thus rivals the more commonly used medially based deltopectoral flap and forehead flap.
(18) An aneurysm of the superficial temporal artery is a rare lesion, which should be suspected after blunt trauma to the forehead that is followed by the appearance of a pulsatile cystic lesion in the region of the superficial temporal artery.
(19) Procedures included forehead and orbital repositioning, frontofacial advancement, Le Fort III and particularly Le Fort I osteotomies, as well as mandibular osteotomies and fracture repair.
(20) The detergent scrub technique was used for harvesting corneocytes from three body regions (forehead, palm, and sole) of normal persons (n = 20) under casual conditions and after thorough defattening of the skin with 70% isopropyl alcohol or petrol.
Nasofrontal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of 2-month-old boy with nasofrontal encephalomeningocele was presented, which was excellently treated via intradural approach, followed by removal of herniated sac.
(2) Major clinical findings include: asymmetric bilateral cryptophthalmos, unilateral orbital cyst of the nasofrontal area, bilateral anophthalmos, right choanal atresia, right microtia, right auditory canal atresia, hypodontia, ankyloglossia, cartilaginous synchondroses of the cervical vertebrae, and bilateral acetabular dysplasia.
(3) For this patient's treatment, all three consultants advise against the Lynch-type frontoethmoidectomy procedure, with or without mucoperiosteal flap reconstruction of the nasofrontal duct.
(4) Successively: correction of the dorsum (resection of the bony hump) with incorrect nasofrontal angle, residual hump, "saddle nose"; lateral osteotomy and bony step; transversal and paramedian osteotomy with possibility of "open roof" so as residual deviation.
(5) The following indications for surgical removal of these osteomas are suggested: osteomas extending beyond the boundaries of the frontal sinus, if enlarging, if localized in the region adjacent to the nasofrontal duct, if signs of chronic sinusitis are present, osteomas of the ethmoid sinuses, irrespective of their size and if patients with osteomas complain of headache and other causes of headache have been excluded.
(6) Mucoceles form if the nasofrontal duct is obstructed, if mucosa is inadequately removed during obliteration and, in some instances, where islands of mucosa are isolated by mucosal laceration.
(7) Nasofrontal duct reconstruction offers more direct access to the ethmoid cell system than osteoplastic flap obliteration.
(8) We have presented a graduated anatomic algorithm for treatment of frontal sinus fractures based on the degree of fracture displacement and nasofrontal duct involvement and presence of CSF leak.
(9) There was no instance of failure in patients with a history of trauma to the nasofrontal duct and only two recurrences in patients with mucocele or pyocele.
(10) This allows direct visualization of the anterior and posterior sinus walls and both nasofrontal ducts, subsequently facilitating reduction of fractures, debridement, and obliteration or ablation, if necessary, without creating another bone flap.
(11) In primary injuries of the frontal sinus in which the nasofrontal duct is badly damaged but the posterior sinus wall intact and in late mucoceles or mucopyoceles, all sinus mucosa is stripped and the sinus is packed with cancellous bone.
(12) Nasofrontal, orbital, zygomatic, maxillary, and mandibular fractures are described and illustrated.
(13) The anterior ethmoidal cells and the nasofrontal duct remain untouched, avoiding late mucocele formation.
(14) First, CT was performed on cadavers to study the anatomic relationship of the nasofrontal duct to midface anatomy.
(15) Techniques that advance, retrodisplace, and inferiorly or superiorly displace the nasofrontal angle are discussed, calling attention to this part of the profile.
(16) The otolaryngologist must examine all roentgenograms personally, with particular attention paid to the nasofrontal duct region and to the magnitude of depression of fracture fragments.
(17) In light of these results, fat obliteration with closure of the nasofrontal duct is probably more reliable than obliteration by osteoneogenesis.
(18) The nasofrontal duct is critical in the natural history of these injuries.
(19) Appropriate deepening of the nasofrontal junction remains one of the most difficult parts of rhinoplasty.
(20) We report a metallic foreign body that entered through the anterior table of the frontal sinus, and rolled down to lodge in the nasofrontal duct.