What's the difference between frontal and nasofrontal?
Frontal
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the front part; being in front
(a.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.
(n.) Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet
(n.) An ornamental band for the hair.
(n.) The metal face guard of a soldier.
(n.) A little pediment over a door or window.
(n.) A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.
(n.) A medicament or application for the forehead.
(n.) The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
(2) 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.
(3) Results showed a clear relationship between subjects' baseline frontal EMG levels and the effect of the training methods.
(4) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
(5) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
(6) Five daily injections of TGF beta-1 or -2 were administered subcutaneously over the frontal and parietal bones of seven-week-old mice.
(7) Four had partial simple seizures with secondary generalisation and 3 had cortical excisions (2 frontal, 1 occipital lobe) surgery.
(8) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
(9) The alterations in DS frontal cortex included decreases in (n-6) and increases in (n-3) groups in choline and ethanolamine phosphoglycerides (CPG and EPG), as had previously been found in EPG and serine phosphoglyceride (SPG) of the DS fetal brain.
(10) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(11) Results are interpreted in terms of a hypothesized selective effect of alcohol on frontal cortical inhibitory functions.
(12) For both early and late P300 peaks, ERC patterns following feedback about inaccurate performance involved more frontal sites than did those following feedback about accurate performance.
(13) The hippocampus plays an essential role in the laying down of cognitive memories, the pathway to the frontal lobe being via the MD thalamus.
(14) The authors report a case of total bladder duplication by frontal septum.
(15) Increased intensity of stereotypy was observed reaching a maximum 14 days after frontal lobe damage.
(16) There were no differences in brain metabolic rates in lateral cortical areas (frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes).
(17) Dorsomedial frontal cortex (DMFC) was studied in monkeys trained to make visually guided eye or arm movements.
(18) The effects on skull growth of plating the coronal suture and frontal bone were studied in New Zealand White rabbits.
(19) Bilateral temporal epilepsies involving the limbic system on the one hand, bilateral frontal epilepsies on the other one, and P.M. status which may be paralleled, make these patients more susceptible to acute mental confusions, to acute thymic disorders, to delirious attacks.
(20) In 2 patients the frontally recorded SEP component P20 was lost; in one of them the activity of mainly the tangential dipole was reduced.
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.