What's the difference between hydrocephalous and swollen?

Hydrocephalous


Definition:

  • (a.) Having hydrocephalus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
  • (2) Moreover, they suggest that the substitution of controlled for automatic processes may help high-functioning hydrocephalics compensate for abnormalities in cerebral structure.
  • (3) Brain uptake of inulin and methotrexate was significantly increased in the dogs made hydrocephalic 4 weeks prior to perfusion, but was less so in the 8-week hydrocephalics.
  • (4) Each hydrocephalic infant presented with signs of increased intracranial pressure and required placement of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
  • (5) The author evaluates the dynamics of immune reactivity of the body in patients with cerebral arachnoiditis with consideration of main clinical syndrome--hypertensive-hydrocephalic, epileptiform, autonomic-vascular dystonia syndromes in different variants of the course of the process.
  • (6) Slopes of the regression lines relating volume flow and serum osmolality for both normal and hydrocephalic cats are the same.
  • (7) The methods used were as follows: (1) silicone oil injection into the cisterna magna and the neighboring basal cisterns in rabbits by the method of Wisniewski; (2) kaolin administration into the cisterna magna in rabbits and dogs (Dixon); (3) ballooning method with Foley's catheter into the 4th ventricle in rabbits (Milho-rat); (4) plug formation with small pieces of laminalia into the cisterna magna in rabbits by our method; (5) Hy-3 hereditary hydrocephalic mouse bred by Gruenberg; (6) ligation of the placental vessels of the pregnant rat at 13 days of gestation by our method, and (7) transplacental intraperitoneal administration of ethylnitrosourea in a pregnant rat at 9.5 days of gestation.
  • (8) In hydrocephalic mice the resting pressure was not significantly different from normal in the 1st week after birth, but by 14 days the pressure was significantly higher in hydrocephalic mice.
  • (9) Cerebral blood flow patterns of hydrocephalic fetuses seem to differ individually from case to case, presenting no uniform waveform type in late pregnancy.
  • (10) The infants presented with the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome whereas the elder children with vegetovascular dystonia, biliary and gastrointestinal diseases.
  • (11) Expanding, adult-length catheters to accommodate continuing somatic growth have been implanted in the course of shunts, either to the heart or peritoneum, in 12 hydrocephalic infants and young children.
  • (12) We made studies about the changes of muscarinic cholinergic receptors in experimental hydrocephalic rat brains using binding assay, macroautoradiography, and microautoradiography with 3H-quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB), which has a high and specific affinity for muscarinic receptors.
  • (13) This suggests that CSF drainage does not take place by this route in hydrocephalic rats and that alternative drainage routes must be operating.
  • (14) In hydrocephalic HTX-rats, the fluorescence intensity increased nearly in parallel with that in non-hydrocephalic HTX-rats up to the 21st postnatal day.
  • (15) The prevalence in hydrocephalic children is 10.6%; in children with mental retardation, 44.6%; in children with eye lesions, 44.6%; and in children with signs of systemic diseases, 9.5%.
  • (16) In hydrocephalic children the behavior of the cerebral blood flow velocity and the pulsatility index will warn of an increase of the ventricular fluid pressure or a shunt insufficiency.
  • (17) This resulted from an enhanced volume storage capacity in the hydrocephalic infants.
  • (18) One hundred and twenty four skulls (65 males and 59 females) were employed, classified as: deformed , deformed-hydrocephalic, sham-operated and controls.
  • (19) A third purpose was to reexamine the claim that despite their semantic-pragmatic deficiencies, the syntax of hydrocephalic children is age appropriate.
  • (20) Necropsy studies disclosed increased basal subarachnoid fibrosis and extensive ependymal and subependymal damage in the lateral ventricular walls of the hydrocephalic dogs.

Swollen


Definition:

  • () of Swell
  • () p. p. of Swell.
  • (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
  • (2) Mild fibrosis, swollen mitochondria, and hyper-contracted and overdistended sarcomeres were typical ultrastructural alterations.
  • (3) The fungicidal activity of six rabbit neutrophil cationic peptides (NP) against resting (dormant) spores, preincubated (swollen) spores, and hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae was examined.
  • (4) Precipitates of calcium antimonate were formed almost exclusively in swollen clear pinealocytes, in and along their cell membranes, over their nuclei, in mitochondria, the Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic and integrade reticulums, acervuli, in vesicles surrounding synaptic bars, cytoplasmic matrix, and flocculent extracellular material.
  • (5) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
  • (6) Effects of alpha- or beta-D-glucose on the respiration of germinated spores (only germinated spores not including swollen spores and elongated spores) of Bacillus subtilis and B. megaterium were studied.
  • (7) Central nervous system (CNS) cultured neurons while exposed to different concentrations and pH of L-lactic acid exhibited in general chromatin clumping, vacuolization in the cytoplasm, appearance of lipid bodies, accumulation of polyribosomes, cytoplasmic lucency and swollen and aggregation of mitochondria.
  • (8) The enzyme changes in response to trauma varied widely; some enzymes controlling tissue respiration showed early and rapid changes, increasing in hyperactive, swollen glial cells and vascular endothelium and decreasing in nerve cells and neuropile.
  • (9) It's possible that it upsets her to think about the past, or perhaps, these days, she saves her animation for the times when she is holding a microphone and standing in front of a swollen, angry crowd.
  • (10) In acute inflammation, circumscribed ulcers were often seen; along their margins the epithelial cells were swollen and isolated from the surrounding cells.
  • (11) A diffusely reddish and swollen vaginal mucosa from a 5 year old caucasian female, which experienced recurrent haemorrhages since the first year of life, proves to be a venous angiosis or varicosis, representing a congenital vascular malformation.
  • (12) Ultrastructurally, swollen and degenerating nerve processes have been found after lithium treatment suggesting a particular sensitivity of these structures to lithium ion.
  • (13) Investigations with scanning and transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that the HOS test caused the membrane of the sperm tail to swell and the tail fibers to coil several times within the swollen membrane.
  • (14) The type I epithelial cells of the lung tissue are swollen and show poor cellular structures.
  • (15) Within 24 h of injection, axons in this nerve became swollen and fused at points along their length.
  • (16) After 24 h, the extensor digitorum longus and tibialis anterior muscles appeared grossly swollen (edematous) and discolored.
  • (17) A 70-year-old man died when his car crashed into a swollen river near Earith, Cambridgeshire.
  • (18) Maximally swollen mitochondria from intermediate-age ARO rats, contracted more rapidly with antimycin addition than those from PF or AF controls.
  • (19) Clinical index consisted of the Landsbury index, number of swollen joints and duration of morning stiffness.
  • (20) The chloride cells were swollen and alterations had occurred in their mitochondria and nuclei.

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