(n.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.
(pl. ) of Glabellum
Example Sentences:
(1) The case of a 70-year-old man with squamous cell carcinoma on the glabella which markedly responded to intralesional injections of oil bleomycin (to a total dose of 115 mg) is reported.
(2) In addition to the macroglossia, the typical facial signs of this syndrome such as capillary haemangioma of the glabella, soft tissue folds under the eyes and linear indentations of the ear lobes are demonstrable.
(3) The characteristic appearance and spread of the eruption to the glabella and eyelids are described.
(4) The other sections of the osseous middle and lateral parts of the face, of the glabella and of the root of the nose have sufficient strength for bony segments to be anchored using plates.
(5) Acquisition rates for the CR were somewhat, but not significantly, slower than rates for cats trained with glabella tap US.
(6) Reflex modification was tested using a controlled eyeblink-eliciting tap to the glabella presented either alone or with a 90-dB SPL tone.
(7) An anteroposterior projection with a 20 degrees cephalo-caudad angulation centered at the glabella adequately demonstrates the posterior and lateral orbital floor and the posterolateral margin of the orbital floor in all patients.
(8) Subperiosteal dissection via a coronal incision is not only useful to lift the facial mask; it is also useful for remodelling the orbital margins and to obtain bone grafts from the parietal area in order to reinforce the glabella, check bones and nasogenial folds.
(9) Based on a comparison of this with seven other patients in the literature, the most characteristic clinical symptoms of partial trisomy 2p are concluded to be the following: abundant lanugo at birth, glabella prominence, anteverted nares, dermatoglyphic anomalies, and malformations of the eyes.
(10) All extrapyramidal symptoms except "glabella tap" occurred significantly less frequently in the remoxipride group as compared to the haloperidol group.
(11) The patient was able to perform voluntary contractions of the left corrugator glabellae muscle and of the left corner of the orbicular oral muscle; these contractions were recorded electromyographically.
(12) Therefore, we suggest using a rotation flap from the glabella combined with a trap-door flap from the nose or the septum.
(13) In 30 patients with Parkinson's disease, 55 patients with other neurological disorders and 25 normal subjects, both upper eyelid movements and orbicularis oculi reflexes to repetitive glabella taps were simultaneously recorded using a newly devised apparatus for the measurement of eyelid movement.
(14) A review of Endo's experimental and theoretical procedures and data indicates that the magnitude of the principal strains in the glabella region of both humans and gorillas are low as compared to other parts of the face.
(15) Unusual facial manifestations included enophthalmos, long philtrum, micrognathia, narrow forehead, prominent glabella, and depressed nasal bridge.
(16) This is particularly true for those studies that have emphasized the existence of powerful bending stress in the glabella region during incisor biting in both humans and non-human primates.
(17) Conditioned eyeblink responses were obtained in cats by pairing click (CS) with glabella tap (US) and electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus (HS).
(18) All patients received botulinum toxin in the upper eyelids, above the eyebrows, across the glabella, and near the lateral canthus.
(19) Dysmorphic features included high bulging forehead with frontal upsweep of hair, flat, wide glabella and nasal bridge, maxillary hypoplasia, ptosis, dacryostenosis, dolichostenomelia, hyperextensible fingers with subluxation in proximal interphalangeal joints, hypoplastic external genitalia, and overconstriction of the shafts of all long bones.
(20) The contemporary presence of snout reflex, glabella tap, and palmomental reflex was consistently associated with dementia.
Protuberance
Definition:
(n.) That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The protuberances arose after an exposure of early-exponential phase cells to digestive enzymes from hepatopancreas of Helix pomatia.
(2) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(3) The active zones were distinguishable as regions with an increased density of large particles and vesicle attachment sites represented by P face depressions and E face protuberances.
(4) Rotary-replication of quick-frozen, etched postsynaptic membranes enhanced the visibility of these surface protuberances and illustrated that they often occur in dimers, tetramers, and ordered rows.
(5) Comparison of this patient with thirteen previously published cases of this trisomy reveals a pattern of common features including: peculiar craniofacial dysmorphism--facial asymmetry, antimongoloid slant, narrow or short palpebral fissures, prominent nose, long upper lip, micro or retrognathia, high arched palate, low set ears, malformed ears, protuberant occiput--, abnormal fingers and toes, short neck, mental and growth retardation, cardiopathy, respiratory distress etc..
(6) A 51-year-old Caucasian man presented with a yellowish lesion containing multiple protuberances over his right cheek.
(7) Other features which conform to previous reports are a peculiar face with a long philtrum, protuberant lower lip, relative micrognathia, large dysplastic ears, excessive loose skin folds around the scalp, neck and trunk, large hands with camptodactyly, varus deformities of the feet and a hoarse, low-pitched voice.
(8) Characteristic protuberant structures were observed on cells of all cellulolytic strains.
(9) In osteo-onychodysostosis, characteristic osseous horns arise from the posterior iliac wings, whereas in Type IX Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, similar protuberances extend inferiorly from the occiput.
(10) The indentations and protuberances of the cranial bones in the region of the middle cranial fossa were regarded as reflecting prominent indentations of the gyri and were attributed no pathological significance.
(11) Some ciliated cells were also seen to exhibit protuberant mucus protrusion.
(12) An artifactual protuberance at the surface of the liver in connection with an incomplete acoustic shadow is described.
(13) Patients develop a thoracic kyphosis, a lumbar lordosis, and a protuberant abdomen with prominent horizontal skinfold creases.
(14) Upon further incubation at 37 degrees C, Con A was internalized over the entire cell periphery of the rounded, untreated cells but on collagenase-treated PMNs was rapidly gathered into a cap overlying the uropod or protuberant region of cytoplasm where it was subsequently internalized.
(15) Oxystomatous crabs of the subfamily Calappinae, particularly the genus Calappa, possess a large tooth on the dactyl and a pair of protuberances on the propodus of the right cheliped.
(16) The first case was a six-year-old girl with tumor in the right nostril and epipharynx, the second was a 66-year-old male patient with protuberances in the hypopharynx.
(17) The protuberant form of the papilla developed much earlier than the calyceal muscle which was observed in the late stage of intrauterine life.
(18) In the margin of non cornified squamous cell carcinomas there are as well bud-like cytoplasmic protuberances like microvilli as microplicae.
(19) The young cyst is enclosed by a cyst wall containing numerous small protuberances.
(20) When this fundamental plane was projected to the lateral view on CT scan, it appeared to be almost identical to the line connecting the tip of posterior clinoid process to the internal occipital protuberance (the fundamental line).