(a.) Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [/].
(a.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.
(n.) The hyoid bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The duration and "growth guidance" aspects of treatment allowed for functional as well as morphologic adaption to the altered hyoid position.
(2) Primitively, vibrations reached the stapes mainly via the anterior hyoid cornu, but in dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodants vibrations passed mainly or exclusively from mandible to quadrate to stapes and the reflected lamina was a component of the eardrum.
(3) The cranial force displacing the hyoid bone invariably showed a positive relationship with F0.
(4) This thin flap, usually extending from the hyoid bone to the sternal notch at the central part of the anterior neck, provides a skin island of about 4 by 8 cm.
(5) Therefore, 90 patients with documented obstructive sleep apnea were evaluated by cephalometric technique, with special attention paid to the size and position of the soft palate and uvula, volume and position of the tongue, mandibulo-maxillary relationship, hyoid position, and size of the pharyngeal airway space.
(6) The vital composite hyoid bone-muscle graft interposition technique offers a promising method for the solution of difficult cases of glottic, subglottic, and tracheal stenosis.
(7) After cephalometric analysis, poor responders were revealed to show significantly poor mandibular prognatism and also lower positioned hyoid bone than good responders.
(8) In the suprahyoideal method of Montgomery the cranial muscle-insertions at the hyoid are divided and the hyoid bone is transsected leaving the small and large horns.
(9) Long mandibular plane to hyoid bone (MP-H) distance and width of the posterior airway space (PAS) (space behind the base of the tongue) were statistically significant predictors of elevated RDI.
(10) Compared with low-density barium boluses, the high-density barium boluses were associated with later sphincter opening and closure, longer duration of sphincter opening and flow, lower flow rate, greater maximal anterior hyoid movement, greater sagittal sphincter diameter, and higher intrabolus pressure upstream of and within the sphincter.
(11) The injury involves the origin fibers of the middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle on the greater cornu of the hyoid bone.
(12) Thus, the nucleus ambiguus in Anolis contains motoneurons for supply of striated muscles in the hyoid (i.e.
(13) (P less than 0.01, P greater than 0.05) 2) The distance between the body of hyoid and posterior pharyngeal wall remained constant postoperatively (P greater than 0.05) 3) The distance between the body of hyoid and Menton was found to be shortened right after operation and remained constant thereafter.
(14) Interestingly, apnea and apnea plus hypopnea indices returned to normal values (< 5 and 10, respectively) in four subjects with normal posterior soft tissues and mandibular plane to the hyoid bone distances.
(15) The consistency and arrangement of the ligament suggests an important role of additional structural support in the region of the angle of the mandible and hyoid bone.
(16) Techniques of correction of thickening of the submental region are based on an anatomical analysis: position of the hyoid bone, mental protrusion, supra- or sub-platysmal steatomery, anatomy of the platysma muscle.
(17) The hyoid crest segment is located in the ceratohyal cartilage and in ganglia VII and VIII.
(18) A silastic keel is secured between the vocal cords at the anterior commissure by means of a loop of nylon passing externally through the crico-thyroid and crico-hyoid membranes.
(19) A new technique of laryngoplasty using the function of the suprahyoid muscles (hyoid transposition laryngoplasty) was reported.
(20) Results of film analysis indicate that the hyoid moves during all three behaviors.
Myoid
Definition:
(a.) Composed of, or resembling, muscular fiber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tissue sections suggest that these cells may be derived from myoid peritubular cells in the testis and similar periacinar cells in the prostate.
(2) Microfilaments in the myoid cells of the peritubular tissue in the mouse, swine and human testis bind heavy meromyosin (HMM) and form arrowhead complexes.
(3) Individual myoid cells apparently possess different enzyme activities which correspond to different stages of development, maturity and degeneration of these cells.
(4) A myoepithelial origin for the myoid component of such lesions was postulated in previous reports.
(5) O'Connor and Burnside (Journal of Cell Biology 89:517-524, 1981) showed that minus-ends of rod F-actin filaments are oriented towards the elongating myoid while plus-ends are oriented towards the shortening calycal processes.
(6) The paramount feature revealed by immunohistological double marker analyses was the intimate association of myoid cells (antigen producing) with interdigitating reticulum cells (potentially antigen presenting cells), both of which were surrounded by T3+ lymphocytes in thymus medulla.
(7) As for myoid cell replication, the high prenatal labeling index was found to drop soon after birth and to further slow down during the first month of postnatal life, suggesting that myoid cell proliferation is not a major factor in peritubular expansion.
(8) All three assays indicated that no net assembly of RIS-ROS F-actin accompanied myoid elongation.
(9) The myoid (contractile) cells are nearest to the seminiferous tubules.
(10) Based on this finding and on the observation that several of the phenotypic characteristics of TE671, such as the presence of muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and the intermediate filament protein desmin, are suggestive of myoid origin we investigated the possible identity of these two cell lines.
(11) In spring the lamina propria of lacertilian testis shows 1-5 layers of myoid cells which are rich in 50-70 A filaments and exhibit plasmalemmal and intracellular dense patches, smooth vesicles along the cell membrane and a concentration of organelles in a juxtanuclear position.
(12) Among the somatic cell lines, the highest hydrolysis rates are obtained with naphthyl substrates in the epithelial (TR-1) and myoid (TR-M) cell lines and marginally lower rates in the Leydig (TM3) and Sertoli (TM4) cell lines.
(13) The desmin-positive myoid cell layer could already be identified in newborn rat testis but was more compact in appearance 23 days after birth.
(14) Both lesions histologically were composed of mononucleated, binucleated, and multinucleated hypopigmented epithelioid and elongated "myoid" cells, widely separated in a finely fibrillar eosinophilic stroma.
(15) Although myoid-cell AChR appears antigenically similar to extrajunctional muscle AChR, and must therefore express the epitopes that myasthenics' antibodies recognize, these cells do not appear to be foci of immunological stimulation in myasthenia gravis.
(16) Relative collagen synthesis (expressed as percent of total protein synthesized) by Sertoli and peritubular myoid cells cultured from 20-22 day old rat testis was estimated.
(17) Some traverses patent intercellular clefts between myoid cells and enters the interspaces of the basal compartment of the epithelium.
(18) In normal lymph nodes, myoid cells (MCs) were present in the superficial and deep paracortex as well as in the medulla, and absent in lymphoid follicles.
(19) Peritubular myoid cells and undifferentiated interstitial cells showed a higher frequency of cilia in estrogenized animals than in control ones, from 15 to 45 days of age, the differences being slighter at 90 days of age.
(20) Myoid cells were occasionally observed within thymomas in areas showing medullary differentiation.