What's the difference between indented and pterygopalatine?
Indented
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Indent
(a.) Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
(a.) Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
(a.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.
(a.) Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.
(a.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
(3) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
(4) Thus, the area with separated HL, which is restricted to the region of the PMC released at the stage of PMC ingression, spreads almost entirely throughout the area of the indenting vegetal plate at gastrulation.
(5) Evidence for net C3 synthesis was based on (a) incorporation of 14C-labeled amino acids into C3 protein, (b) indentity of the allotype of C3 produced in vitro with that of the doner's serum C3, even in the presence of carrier C3 protein of a different allotype; (c) correspondence of electrophoretic mobility, size, and subunit structure of C3 protein produced in vitro with serum C3; (d) inhibition of C3 production with cycloheximide.
(6) The light touch stimulus was a slight indentation of the skin produced through a displacement controlled stimulating probe (tip diameter of 2 mm).
(7) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
(8) The monocytes are large cells with an indented nucleus and cytoplasm containing numerous vesicles of different sizes and also a few lysosomes.
(9) Kitten units responsive to skin indentation showed no evidence of encoding stimulus magnitude information.
(10) The anti-inflammatory effect of dexamethasone was also indentical in both normal and EFAD rats.
(11) (1) was employed to calculate the strain rate and stress from the indentation time and the size of the indentation.
(12) A mathematical solution has been obtained for the indentation creep and stress-relaxation behavior of articular cartilage where the tissue is modeled as a layer of linear KLM biphasic material of thickness h bonded to an impervious, rigid bony substrate.
(13) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.
(14) Therefore, the pleural indentation sign does not exclusively appear in the lung cancer.
(15) In the fluoride group, a moderate increase of the indentation length and a reduced calcium loss were observed.
(16) Histologically, in addition to diffuse infiltrate of large lymphoid cells with deeply indented nuclei, there were many epithelioid cell granulomas, remarkable tissue eosinophilia and stromal fibrosis, mimicking inflammatory disease.
(17) By utilizing high-speed, microcomputer-controlled data logging techniques, simultaneous monitoring of signals from a dynamic load cell and a displacement transducer could be made throughout an indentation test.
(18) The central axon of a primary afferent neuron that responded to indentation of the glabrous skin of the lower lip in a slowly adapting fashion was intra-axonally injected with horseradish peroxidase.
(19) 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.
(20) Cuplike indentations were present on the paunch epithelial surface and were sites of bacterial aggregation.
Pterygopalatine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) After injection of WGA-HRP into the trigeminal ganglion, ganglion cell somata in the superior cervical and the pterygopalatine ganglion were labelled.
(2) Ablation of the superior cervical ganglion or severance of the radix autonomica resulted in the loss of catecholamine staining in the pterygopalatine ganglion and the gland.
(3) A superior salivary nucleus, a root, pterygopalatine, submandibular, sublingual and auricular (in man) parasympathetic ganglia of the head, peripheral branches.
(4) An orbital teratoma with extension into the maxillary sinus, pterygopalatine fossa nasal cavity, and middle cranial fossa is presented.
(5) We found that nerves from the superior cervical and pterygopalatine ganglia form a plexus at the orbital apex corresponding to the retro-orbital plexus found in rabbit, monkey and man.
(6) Cells which project to the middle cerebral artery and were also pBNPir were found in the trigeminal, pterygopalatine and superior cervical ganglia bilaterally but not in the geniculate or otic ganglia.
(7) Removal of the lateral, posterior, and (if necessary) medial walls of the maxillary sinus is followed by resection of most of the contents of the pterygopalatine fossa.
(8) Radiological and computed tomographic studies outlined a mass occupying the left pterygopalatine fossa, which extended into the middle cranial fossa, the maxillary, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses and the orbit.
(9) Similarly, removal of the ciliary ganglion appeared to increase galanin immunoreactivity, while removal of the pterygopalatine ganglion was less effective.
(10) Tonic activity was not observed when was performed from intact nerves of the pterygopalatine ganglion.
(11) Prompted by surgical need, studies detailing major branches of the third or pterygopalatine portion of the maxillary artery acquire practical significance.
(12) We present our experience with intraoral ligation of the maxillary artery as it courses through the buccal fat pad before it enters the pterygopalatine fossa and branches posterior to the maxilla.
(13) The influence of noradrenalin on pterygopalatine ganglionic transmission was examined in the rabbit in vitro.
(14) The Eustachian tube mucosa was also innervated by fibres originating in the pterygopalatine ganglion, but not by those originating in the otic ganglion.
(15) The classical concept of the autonomic innervation of the nasal mucosa states that the postganglionic sympathetic neurones lie in the superior cervical ganglion and those of the postganglionic parasympathetic neurones are in the pterygopalatine ganglion.
(16) The superior alveolar and pterygopalatine nerves mainly terminate in laminae I, II, and V at the level of the rostral one-third of the caudalis.
(17) The mandibular closing muscles and the occlusal loads produced stresses which progressed through the maxilla, following a nasal, a zygomatic and a pterygoid route, while stress concentrations were seen in the frontonasal, zygomaticomaxillary and the pterygopalatine sutures.
(18) Trigeminal nerve terminals in the rat pterygopalatine ganglion (PPG) were ultrastructurally identified using anterograde tracing with Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin (PHA-L).
(19) The sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) is a major autonomic ganglion located superficially in the pterygopalatine fossa, with major afferent distribution to the entire nasopharynx and important connections with the trigeminal nerve, facial nerve, internal carotid artery plexus of the sympathetic nervous system and, as shown in the rat, direct connection with the anterior pituitary gland.
(20) The scheme includes three lines: line A corresponds to the physiological horizontal line, line B is drawn, normally to line A through the tip of the nose, and line C is the perpendicular from line B to the upper third of the posterior wall of the pterygopalatine fossa.