(a.) Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
(2) The authors describe a case of ante partum fetal death due to a true funicular knot combined with relative shortness of the cord as a results of a double nuchal coil.
(3) No detectable responses can be evoked from these neurons when stimulation is applied to sites rostral to the lateral cervical nucleus and the dorsal column nuclei, suggesting that the dorsal and dorsolateral funicular branches of these neuron's axons terminate in the lateral cervical nucleus and the dorsal column nuclei, respectively.
(4) In order to determine the funicular courses of the axons contributing to the spinothalamic pathway, thalamic injections of horseradish peroxidase were combined with ipsilateral ventral or dorsolateral thoracic spinal cord lesions.
(5) The spinal cord was transected at the level of calamus scriptorius either completely (spinal preparation) or partially (funicular preparation).
(6) The possibilities of diagnosing funicular complications are discussed but these are not apt to avoid the rare cases of sudden fetal death as a result of vascular occlusion in the ante partum period.
(7) The importance of funicular hernias as the most serious umbilical cord complication is discussed with reference to this case and the literature.
(8) The shunt is a molded Silastic tube with wire coils at each end to prevent collapse, and its funicular collar and rim obviate sudden expulsion.
(9) The dorsal nucleus of Clarke, the lateral cervical nucleus (cat), the intermediolateral cell columns of the thoracic and upper lumbar levels, and selected groups of ventral horn neurons formed moderate to darkly reactive cell clusters, whereas fusiform and multipolar cells of Waldeyer in the marginal layer, small fusiform neurons in the ventral gray, funicular cells in the white matter, and ventral horn neurons of varying sizes tended to stand out against the neuropil as singly reactive neurons.
(10) The contribution of midline medullary bulbospinal neurons to descending inhibition from the locus coeruleus (LC) and the funicular trajectories of coeruleo- and raphe-spinal fibers mediating inhibition of spinal nociceptive transmission were examined in different experiments.
(11) In this puppy, as opposed to six studied previously, thoracolumbar myelomalacia also occurred symmetrically in the dorsal horns and adjoining funicular white matter.
(12) In order to enhance visualization of the pelvic, lumbar and kidney-hilar nodes, a combined lymphangiography should be done through both bipedal and funicular routes.
(13) Of the 58 neurons tested for response to isolated dorsal column and dorsolateral funicular stimulation, 24% were activated from both tracts.
(14) Finally, I reached the symbol of Rio itself, the Cristo , where I was joined by the crowds who'd taken the funicular or minibus.
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine the funicular location of descending catecholamine (CA) fibers innervating the lumbar spinal cord from the dorsolateral pons (DLP).
(16) Partial cystectomy with excision of the funicular urachal ligament was performed.
(17) The funicular pathways that elicit forelimb stepping were investigated with stimulation and lesion of the cervical white matter in decerebrate cats with the lower thoracic cord transected.
(18) The descending tract terminates largely in the medial funicular nucleus and the commissural nucleus of Cajal in the region of the obex.
(19) In adult cats the successive degeneration technique has been used to demonstrate the existence and distribution pattern of lateral funicular fibers to the dorsal column nuclei (DCN) originating from the brachial and thoracic cord.
(20) Fiber degeneration in the DCN consequent to this second operation is not contaminated by damage to dorsal roots or by interruption of lateral funicular afferents from lumbo-sacro-coccygeal segments.
Pulley
Definition:
(v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain.
(b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
Example Sentences:
(1) The model consists of electrically stimulating the lower leg muscles to contract against a weighted pulley bar.
(2) The traumatic agent is the sudden extension while the finger is holding an object and the flexor digitorum profundus is strongly contracted: the tendon retracts and the stump can be found either at the distal pulley, at the bifurcation of the superficialis tendon, or in the palm of the hand.
(3) Nine tendons were repaired with each of four suture patterns: single-locking loop, double-locking loop, triple-locking loop, or three-loop pulley.
(4) There was no evidence of a synovial cell layer on the surface of the A1 pulleys in either normal or trigger digits.
(5) The "pulley effect" of the skin and soft tissue as a supplement to the fibro-osseous pulleys in reducing tendon bow-stringing was also noted.
(6) Therefore, a method was developed to reconstruct the fibro-osseous pulleys with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane.
(7) The pulleys were studied in specific configurations to determine their effectiveness in transforming tendon excursion into finger flexion.
(8) Pulley advancement increased the tendon excursion required to flex this joint and thus the mechanical advantage at this joint, but only when the joint was partly flexed.
(9) It is not yet known whether it has sufficient breaking strength to meet the functional demands of human pulleys.
(10) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
(11) Pulley positions are relatively constant throughout postnatal development, with the gross anatomic characteristics correlating closely to those of the adult hand.
(12) Some rigged up pulley systems to hoist shopping to their windows, where the glass was cracked and fixed with tape.
(13) The whole flexor apparatus was resected and a single digital pulley (A 2) was reconstructed, using segments of the animals own deep flexor tendon.
(14) Suggested minimum requirements for the breaking strength of artificial implant pulleys may be made based on these studies.
(15) Flexor pulley restoration and the importance of maintaining strong pulley support are discussed and surgical techniques including those for flexor tendon grafting and reconstruction are described.
(16) The transverse fibers of the palmar aponeurosis are attached by vertical septa to the underlying transverse metacarpal ligament and thus form a pulley over the flexor tendons.
(17) The synthetic Nitex pulley appears to have the potential to function as an effective fibro-osseous pulley replacement.
(18) The triple-locking loop and three-loop pulley patterns were close in strength and only the triple-locking loop was stronger than the double-locking loop.
(19) The long-term results of the key grip procedure (tenodesis of the flexor pollicis longus tendon to the radius, release of the A1 pulley, and percutaneous pin fixation of the interphalangeal joint of the thumb) were evaluated in 10 tetraplegic patients.
(20) Satisfactory grip functions were restored for all patients after the secondary pulley reconstruction.