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Geniohyoid
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten adult midsagittally sectioned cadaver heads were used to measure the distance between the apex of the central incisor or canine teeth and the attachment of the genioglossus or geniohyoid muscles.
(2) Tension applied to the genioglossus and geniohyoid tongue muscles had an effect opposite to that of airway suction, causing a more or less symmetrical dilation of the naso- and oropharynx.
(3) The geniohyoid and the sternohyoid muscles had a preponderance of fast glycolytic (FG) fibers (mean 48 and 55%, respectively), a smaller number of fast oxidative-glycolytic (FOG) fibers (mean 36 and 31%, respectively), and few slow oxidative (SO) fibers (mean 16 and 14%, respectively).
(4) The digastric and geniohyoid muscles of the rabbit both produce jaw-opening torque.
(5) This protraction was produced by contraction of the geniohyoid and anterior digastric muscles, and occurred during the intercuspal (minimum gape) and opening phases of the masticatory cycle.
(6) The treatment was the exstirpation from the outside of the throat because all cysts were located under the geniohyoid muscle.
(7) We recorded inspiratory supraglottic airway resistance, geniohyoid muscle electromyographic (EMGgh) activity, sleep staging, and ventilatory parameters in these subjects during supine nasal breathing.
(8) These results suggest that the relationship between hyoid muscle electrical activity and respiratory changes in length is very complex, so that the presence of hyoid muscle electrical activity does not necessarily indicate muscle shortening, and among the geniohyoid and sternohyoid muscles, the geniohyoid has a primary role as a hypopharyngeal dilator in the spontaneously breathing cat, with the sternohyoid muscle acting in an accessory capacity.
(9) 62: 582-590, 1987) have suggested that the geniohyoid and sternohyoid muscles may act as upper airway dilators in the cat.
(10) Geniohyoid and sternohyoid contraction was stimulated by direct muscle electrical stimulation with implanted wire electrodes.
(11) Using videofluoroscopy, we recorded concurrent submental electromyographic (EMG) activity from over the mylohyoid, geniohyoid and anterior digastric muscle complex (SM EMG) and from over the infrahyoid muscles, which consisted mainly of the thyrohyoids (IH EMG).
(12) During recordings of geniohyoid motor unit activity, average CV of other respiratory parameters were as follows: peak diaphragm EMG 5.8%, inspiratory time 3.5%, expiratory time 3.8%.
(13) The surgical treatment is individualized to the site or sites of obstruction and can include tracheostomy, septoplasty, UPPP, geniohyoid advancement and suspension of the hyoid.
(14) Mean inspiratory UAR was determined for spontaneous breaths under three conditions: 1) baseline (no muscle stimulation), 2) geniohyoid contraction alone, and 3) sternohyoid contraction alone.
(15) Geniohyoid was attached mainly to a basihyal raphe shared by the sternohyoid.
(16) In 29 normal persons with complete dental arches, the muscular activity of the temporalis, masseter, medical pterygoid, anterior belly of the digastric, mylohyoid and geniohyoid muscles was studied electromyographically with bipolar fine wire electrodes during various mandibular movements--both resisted and unresisted.
(17) A third set, having cell bodies in the two uppermost cervical ganglia, provided proprioceptive afferents to the tongue and geniohyoid.
(18) A septate geniohyoid may be a primitive feature of mammals because it also exists in the opossum and tree shrew.
(19) To determine where and how muscles affect pharyngeal stability, we assessed in heavily anesthetized, ventilated dogs, the negative pressure required to close the nasopharynx and the passage from the oral to the pharyngeal airway before and after electrical stimulation of six pairs of upper airway muscles: the sternohyoid, sternothyroid, ceratohyoid, thyrohyoid, genioglossus, and geniohyoid.
(20) The geniohyoid has been characterized as a parallel-fibred muscle extending from the mandibular symphysis to the hyoid body.
Medial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.
(n.) See 2d Media.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(2) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(3) CRF-ir cells were for the most part concentrated in the medial parvocellular component of PVN.
(4) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(5) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(6) The field of labeling formed a continuous band from rostro-laterally to caudo-medially.
(7) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
(8) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
(9) Injection of carbachol into the AV3V produced the expected natriuresis, which was accompanied within 20 min by a dramatic rise in the plasma ANP concentration and a rise in ANP content in the medial basal hypothalamus, the neurohypophysis, and particularly the anterior hypophysis but without alterations in the content of ANP in the lungs or the right or left atrium.
(10) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
(11) The results suggest that Ce projections to a variety of medullary sites arise from separate populations of neurons with partially overlapping distributions in the medial Ce.
(12) Recordings were made from secondary vestibular axons in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) of barbiturate-anesthetized squirrel monkeys.
(13) This study demonstrates the termination of ascending tract of Deiters' (ATD) axons on ipsilateral medial rectus (MR) motoneurons.
(14) The majority of the responsive neurons were located in regions surrounding the aqueduct and the medial part of PAG.
(15) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
(16) Lateral digits of forelimbs were slightly more affected than medial digits of hindlimbs (17.0% vs 14.8%).
(17) The operative approach is through an incision above the medial canthus.
(18) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(19) We have examined the distribution of galanin-like immunoreactive (LI) cell bodies in the medial septal nucleus (MS) and the nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca (nDBB) of young (3 months) and aged (25-30 months) rats, and assessed their respective contribution to the septohippocampal pathway.
(20) We interpret this dissociation between loss of catecholamines and the capacity for active avoidance responding to mean that medial 6-OHDA injections did not damage the same catecholaminergic terminal fields as lateral 6-OHDA injections and that the integrity of the terminal fields damaged by lateral 6-OHDA injections is necessary for active avoidance responding.