(1) The Michigan splint is an occlusal appliance for patients with functional disturbances of the gnathic system.
(2) Such osteonecrosis occurred mainly in gnathic bone.
(3) The present study furthermore points to the importance of medical bionics and its methods for solving some other problems of the gnathic system.
(4) In spite of this, ecobotanical data indicate that we can probably reject the hypothesis that these hominids were year-round gnathic nut-cracking specialists.
(5) The progress of 23 adult patients during treatment for gnathic dysfunctions was monitored by gnathosonic techniques and graphs of the fluctuations in occlusal sound duration were studied.
(6) A one-stage surgical correction of gnathic deformities involving both jaws is described.
(7) A normal adult becomes a normal old man when going through a whole process of physiologic involution called natural ageing, which does not spare the stomato-gnathic system.
(8) Preliminary estimates of adult male gnathic nut-cracking capabilities suggest that A. boisei could have orally cracked a significant portion of the woodland nuts.
(9) Some Miocene hominoids may have been extremely sexually dimorphic for body size, inferred from the apparent dimorphism of dental and gnathic remains.
(10) The gnathic bones were commonly affected, yet there was no associated mortality.
(11) During growth and development of the gnathic bone in infants, it is not possible to observe the processes of resorption of the bone and deciduous tooth root, bone formation and calcification of the permanent teeth separately.
(12) The classification was found useful for identifying patients prone to gnathic dysfunctions as a significantly higher proportion of these patients were in Class C than in Class A.
(13) The dentitions of 146 children with cerebral palsy showed a high incidence of gnathic anomalies.
(14) In the gnathic bone of infants where a normal balance exists between formation of new tissue and resorption, the formative bone tissue is closely related to the cells which give rise to the deciduous and the permanent teeth.
(15) Phase II is the compensatory phase of the occlusion consisting of occlusal equilibration, occlusal restorations, orthodontic treatment and gnathic surgery if needed.
(16) The authors pay complex attention to the research of the gnathic system, focused first of all to the mechanical interactions towards solid formations of the gnathic system.
(17) Report is made about the combined therapy with cytostatics (methotrexate - bleomycin) and irradiation in patients with extended tumors in the gnathic region.
(18) The hypothetical hyperrobust australopithecine gnathic nutcracker adaptation is reexamined in light of ecobotanical information on edible wild nuts provided by the flora of tropical and subtropical Africa.
Jaw
Definition:
(n.) One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
(n.) Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering.
(n.) In the plural, the mouth.
(n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.
(n.) A notch or opening.
(n.) A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard.
(n.) One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.
(n.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
(n.) Impudent or abusive talk.
(v. i.) To scold; to clamor.
(v. t.) To assail or abuse by scolding.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(2) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
(3) Based on the findings of our recent longitudinal study on the abnormalities of the dentition in cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD), a hypothesis has been proposed, which makes it possible to predict time of onset of formation of supernumerary teeth and their location in the jaws.
(4) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(5) In 12 patients with lower macrognathia we have applied a technique allowing to prevent the postsurgical recidives of the jaw deformation.
(6) At the end of treatment the sagittal jaw relationship was significantly improved.
(7) In one horse, the superior aspect of the right ascending ramus of the lower jaw below the coronoid process revealed a gunshot wound; the other skeletons showed no evidence of trauma.
(8) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
(9) The observers assessed the panoramic and periapical radiographs of the teeth, which were evenly distributed throughout the jaws with a 50% probability that either an osteolytic or sclerotic lesion was present.
(10) The jaw deviated to the right when he opened his mouth fully.
(11) As an initial feasibility study of computer-controlled radiation therapy, its application to produce wedge-shaped dose distributions by moving the collimator jaws has been evaluated.
(12) It is important that the dentist knows about disturbances of blood coagulation during and after hemo-dialysis, so that he avoids administration of platelet-inhibiting medication like aspirin and that he recognizes radiologically visible signs of insufficient dialysis in the jaws.
(13) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
(14) Incisal occlusion was shown to have an important part to play in the amount and direction of jaw movement.
(15) Hemimasticatory spasm is a rare disorder of the trigeminal nerve that produces involuntary jaw closure due to paroxysmal unilateral contraction of jaw-closing muscles.
(16) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
(17) It is also possible for patients with underlying psychosis to present first to the dental surgeon for jaw correction.
(18) A hypothesis is presented as to how certain occlusal relationships and habitual patterns of jaw use may predispose an individual to TMJ internal derangements.
(19) Lastly, the CVA indicated major differences across the genus to be located in the teeth and jaws, suggesting diet might be an important distinguishing feature in Colobus.
(20) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.