(n.) The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.
(n.) A kind of bandage for the head.
(n.) Headache extending all over the head.
(n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.
(n.) The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes a method of providing pedicled soft tissue coverage and support for the contents of the anterior cranial fossa using a temporalis muscle-galea rotation flap.
(2) Deep to the galea, the subaponeurotic connective tissue was bilaminar.
(3) However, the use of onlay grafts coupled with soft-tissue shifts of galea and muscle enable the craniofacial surgeon to achieve superior results over those of surgeons primarily concerned with jaw- or tooth-related movements that do not utilize primary bone grafting as a method of augmentation.
(4) In addition, the use of vascularized tissue such as the galea, temporalis fascia, temporalis muscle, or free vascularized tissue transfer has prevented the complication of infection so frequently seen as a cause for morbidity and mortality in the past.
(5) The flap was raised one month before transposition, and a split thickness skin graft was applied to the inner surface of the galea of the flap.
(6) With regard to seasonal variations in adult galea, the limits of the barrier were similar to those described in other mammals: spermatogonia, preleptotene, and leptotene spermatocytes were surrounded by the tracer in the basal compartment.
(7) We feel that vascularized outer-table calvarial flaps can safely be pedicled using only the temporal aponeurosis, innominate fascia, and periosteum without including the galea or temporal muscle.
(8) These children, aged 2 to 9 years, underwent 31 general anesthesias and complex reconstructive procedures, including latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous pedunculated and free flaps, cranial flaps with galea, cranial bone and skin grafts, and retroauricular temporal skin flaps.
(9) The concept is to remove, in serial stages, segments of skin that measure about 3 cm by 7 to 10 cm from the bald area of an alopecic scalp, and to raise the remaining hairy portion into the previously bald area.The technique consists of undermining the skin in the normal plane of cleavage between the galea and the sub-aponeurotic loose connective tissue after each removal of bald skin and "lifting" of hairy skin into the operative defects as they are obliterated by primary closure.
(10) The inflammatory process caused extensive necrotizing fibrosis (up to 2.5 cm thick) of the entire undersurface of the scalp and involved both the galea aponeurotica and the periosteum.
(11) Special attention was directed to the layer of "loose connective tissue" that lies beneath the entire galea and above the cranial periosteum centrally, and the temporalis fascia laterally.
(12) Rib or iliac crest grafts, acrylic implants, and temporalis muscle-galea flaps are useful in correcting the deformity and restoring appropriate function.
(13) In a retrospective review of 246 skin lipomas from our own files, we found 20 lipomas of the forehead (8 per cent), and among these 12 were located beneath the galea, between the frontal muscle and the periosteum.
(14) The surgical technic was accomplished according to the procedure devised by Dietz and consisted of plastics of the anterior floor of the skull accompanied by galea-periosteal junction taken out from the scalp.
(15) We feel the correct treatment is excision deep to galea, with a one to two cm margin of normal scalp.
(16) Such flaps include the gliding tissue between latissimus dorsi and serratus anterior based on the thoracodorsal artery, the galea flap on the superficial temporal and the forearm septo-fascial flap on the radial.
(17) After studying the integrality of the walls of the orbits with CT, the presence and position of the intraorbital implant must be controlled and the enophthalmos treated by compensating for the residual volume loss of the orbital content (bone or biomaterials) and, sometimes, filling up the upper palpebral space (dermal graft, galea flaps or biomaterials).
(18) It had reached the occiput and led to destruction of the bone surrounding its distal end, so that air could be found directly under the galea.
(19) The cranial base was reconstructed with madreporic coral grafts; then a large extra-dural pediculated galea flap was placed onto the anterior base to line the sub-frontal dura.
(20) In these procedures, one or several burr holes are made in the frontal skull, the dura mater is incised, and either the frontal branch of the STA or the pedicled galea aponeurotica stump is placed on the surface of the frontal cortex.
Headache
Definition:
(n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
(2) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
(3) In contrast, in those subjects with chronic non-migrainous headache, the administration of piribedil had no effect.
(4) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
(5) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
(6) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(7) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
(8) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.
(9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(10) Both the use of analgesics and the frequency of headache showed a significant increase for patients with post-traumatic headache when compared with a "control group" of 41 patients with unchanged headache and when compared with all patients with headache before the trauma.
(11) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
(12) These data suggest that the mechanism leading to a migraine attack can be operative 8-48 h before the headache begins and is possibly dopaminergically mediated.
(13) We found that, compared with younger patients, older headache patients had more tension headache and less migraine headache.
(14) The levels of E-type prostaglandins were measured in patients with facial and headaches.
(15) A 26-year-old man addicted to alcohol was admitted to hospital with headache and rhinorrhoea.
(16) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
(17) Childhood headache attacks resulted to be less frequent, less severe and with a shorter duration than in adult patients.
(18) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(19) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.
(20) Furthermore, 97.6%, 95.7% and 94.8% of the subjects reported that depression, headache and sleep disturbances, respectively, had disappeared during therapy.