(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.
Shallow
Definition:
(superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
(superl.) Not deep in tone.
(superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
(n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
(n.) The rudd.
(v. t.) To make shallow.
(v. i.) To become shallow, as water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
(2) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(3) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
(4) In comparison gradients of transcript levels are more shallow in either lytically or persistently infected cultured cells, where the transcripts of the fifth MV gene are only about five times less abundant than those of the first.
(5) With commonly used experimental procedures, it is difficult to know whether a shallow psychometric function slope is a true reflection of the sensory process, or is a result of "averaging" a highly variable underlying function.
(6) The lesions varied in length from 0.5 to 2 cm and were very shallow, generally 1 mm deep.
(7) Further purification of the fraction by equilibrium centrifugation on shallow sucrose gradients reduces further the contaminating activities and results in a PA distribution that closely parallels the distribution of the membrane enzyme, 5'-nucleotidase.
(8) A case of acute angle-closure glaucoma precipitated by oculomotor nerve palsy in a patient with shallow anterior chambers is reported.
(9) From the shallow pool of talent to the lack of a definable playing style and questions over whether they can handle the step up from qualification to tournament football, this is now England.
(10) In Experiment 1, it was found that deviations of observed recognition failure from predictions of the Tulving-Wiseman function (Tulving & Wiseman, 1975) were produced by shallow, nonsemantic encoding.
(11) Recordings from single neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex of the monkey during force regulation between the fingers showed following characteristics: the existence of classes of discharge patterns similar to those in motor cortex, but with differences in their distribution, a late onset of activity changes in relation to force increase and a linear relation to force, but with shallow mean rate-force slope.
(12) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(13) Angiotensin II induced a weak secretion of both adrenaline and noradrenaline, with a threshold of 10-100 pM and a shallow concentration-dependence up to 10 microM.
(14) The threshold of instantaneous change of stage 2 to shallower stages due to the sound of a passing truck was at the peak level at less than 55 dB (A), and that of stage REM to other stages at 55 to 60 dB (A).
(15) Maybe this is symptomatic of how the possibilities of social media have just made our friendships shallower, an economy of “likes” and thoughtless “adds”.
(16) In addition, it was a shallow event with a source that was only 11km below ground.
(17) Some of the stomata overlie a deep pit; others overlie a shallower pit in which the surface of another cell can be seen beneath the opening.
(18) Initially each primordium forms a shallow depression in the ectodermal surface.
(19) Under the scanning electron microscope, the clear dentine tubules in the resorption lacuna, the shallow, unclear resorption lacuna with deposition of the hard tissue and the various steps between them were observed.
(20) We found shallow serpiginous, longitudinal ulcerations in the descending colon at the first examination of a 17-year-old female patient with Crohn's disease.