(n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 38 control fetuses had normal-appearing posterior fossae.
(2) These cases show that an examination of the whole neuraxis is as important in patients with midline posterior fossa cysts as it is in patients with developmental syringomyelia or Chiari I malformation.
(3) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(4) In 5 of the 7 patients with an initially abnormal pituitary fossa, serial radiological studies revealed remodelling in 3.
(5) (b) abnormal morphologic of the glenoid fossa, mandibulars condyle and the neck of mandibula were seen.
(6) The blood flow velocity waveform recorded noninvasively from the brachial artery in the antecubital fossa was used as basis for quantitatively estimating a stroke flow index.
(7) This can be combined with a middle fossa approach in patients with a positive Schirmer's test.
(8) Because of the inherent limitations of computed tomography in the visualization of posterior fossa structures, MR imaging should be considered the initial screening procedure in the assessment of patients with trigeminal neuralgia.
(9) To identify the origin of scalp-recorded far-field negativity of short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials to median nerve stimulation (designated N18), direct records were made from the thalamus and ventricular system during 4 stereotaxic and 3 posterior fossa operations.
(10) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
(11) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
(12) A comparative cephalometric and tomographic study prior to the treatment and after completion of the treatment revealed the following results: an improvement in the occlusal relationships due to both skeletal (an anterior mandibular displacement and an increase in the mandibular length) and dentoalveolar changes; it was possible to produce a growth stimulation of the mandibular condyle associated with a translation of the glenoid fossa by using an elastic activator; there was a direct correlation between the effects of the treatment and the age period of the patients (mixed dentition).
(13) Epistaxis was common in tumors of the ethmoid sinus and nasal fossae, while pain was related to lesions of the maxillary sinus.
(14) Eleven of 15 patients had middle cranial fossa involvement; cavernous sinus extension was observed in six patients.
(15) Stab wounds to the temporal fossa appear as a characteristic clinical entity.
(16) Our impression is that preoperative carotid artery occlusion and a middle fossa approach for tumor resection can be performed in a young patient with acceptable morbidity and at least short-term benefit.
(17) The other structures or regions that were involved, in decreasing order of frequency, were the sphenoid sinus (26.7%), nasal fossa (21.8%), and ethmoid sinus (18.3%).
(18) The association of an arachnoidal cyst in the middle cranial fossa with a subdural haematoma or intracystic bleeding is emphasised.
(19) At the same time the data are obtained on variations in topography of the chorda tympani at various form of the intratemporal fossa.
(20) A patent cochlear aqueduct indicated on computed tomography scan was found and repaired through a posterior cranial fossa approach.
Ossa
Definition:
(pl. ) of Os
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the topical antimicrobial agents tested only bacitracin, mupirocin, and nitrofurantoin were active against all OSSA and ORSA strains tested.
(2) The pelvis consists of the sacrum, the ossa coxae, and additionally the ligaments between these bones.
(3) Imipenem and the cephalosporins, with the exception of cefixime, ceftazidime, and E-1040, possessed good activity against OSSA.
(4) These bacteria included 32 strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae, 25 strains of Enterococcus faecium, 20 strains of oxacillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (OSSA), 96 strains of oxacillin-resistant S. aureus (ORSA), and 35 strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci.
(5) In studies in hamsters specific immunity to protozoan (T. gondii and B. jellisoni) and viral (equine Herpesvirus type 1 and Oriboca virus) infections was compared with nonspecific protection conferred by prior infections with several heterospecific agents: T. gondii; B. jellison; equine Herpesvirus type 1; Oriboca, Ossa, vesicular stomatitis, yellow fever, and Newcastle disease viruses; L. monocytogenes; and the bacillus Calmette-Guerin strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
(6) Compared to other species, relatively high levels of proline, glycine, isoleucine and histidine together with lowered amounts of half cystine, phenylalanine and arginine were observed in OsSA.
(7) The ossa suspensoria are developed from the lateral and ventromesial processes from the basiventrals and form a kind of arch over the dorsal aorta.
(8) Likewise, the aminoglycosides, amikacin and gentamicin, exhibited good activity against OSSA strains but no activity against ORSA strains.
(9) While the arthrosis in the saddle joint of the thumb demonstrates the usual radiological symptoms of arthrosis, the sclerosing of the joint surfaces between the os naviculare and the ossa multangula is the most pronounced.
(10) The column conception of the carpus is supported by cinematic studies as well as by analyses of the subchondral bone density and the spongy structure of the ossa carpi.
(11) In males, over 50% of the variance of nasal height and nasal length were accounted for by the height of the bony nose and the prominence of the ossa nasalia, and in females it was about 40%.
(12) There was, however, no indication that the ossa suprasternalia of primates develop from the suprasternal Anlagen: In Tupaia these Anlagen do not form the cranial part of the manubrium.
(13) The mechanical properties, circulation, and mineralization rate of intact femora, tibiae, ossa ilia, and of an osteotomized tibia of athymic Lewis rats were compared with those of normal Lewis rats.
(14) These results do not suppor the contention that AORSA infections should be managed differently from OSSA infections.
(15) Animals were sacrificed at 6 weeks of age and Ossa tarsalia articular cartilage specimens, as well as the proximal end of tarsometatarsus were dissected from the tibial metatarsal joint, a major weight-bearing site.
(16) The arterial supply of the ossa sesamoidea hallucis was studied in 13 subjects of both sexes by gross anatomical dissection.
(17) The actual number of sesamoid arteries proved to correspond to the dimensions and compactness (robusticity) of the ossa sesamoidea hallucis as well as to several other parameters, such as anthropometric dimensions, sex and footedness of the individuals.
(18) On the basis of the arterial vascularization of the ossa coxae of the Göttingen minipig which has been demonstrated, the cranioventral region of the os ilium is especially suitable as transplant.
(19) Ostrich serum albumin (OsSA) was purified by a combination of heat fractionation and polyethylene glycol precipitation.
(20) Paired ossa metacarpalia II-IV of 39 horses (n = 39) between 2 and 7 years old were tested in palmarodorsal 3-point bending.