(n.) An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
(n.) Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.
(n.) Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.
(n.) An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.
(n.) The internal ear. See Note under Ear.
(n.) A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.
(n.) A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increases were found in both nuclei and cytoplasm of trophoblast cells in the labyrinth region.
(2) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(3) C. burnetii antigen was demonstrated in decidual cells, trophoblasts, and macrophages and extracellularly within the sinuses of the labyrinth and in the uterine lumen but not in granulated metrial gland cells.
(4) Labyrinth and neck reflexes need therefore to be considered together as a single system.
(5) Complete absence of development of inner ear with labyrinth aplasia.
(6) Ach, cholinomimetics and cholinergic antagonists were therefore applied to frog isolated whole labyrinths and isolated semicircular canals.
(7) A combined morphological and physiological study on the effect of saccus obliteration on the cochlea and the vestibular labyrinth of the rat is presented.
(8) Subcellularly, the heaviest depositions of reaction product were observed lining the cytoplasmic membrane surfaces of the labyrinth of anastomosing plasma membrane tubules that ramifies throughout the chloride cell cytoplasm.
(9) On testing the peripheral vestibular apparatus of astronauts with healthy labyrinths, nystagmus was observed when flushing the ears with hot or cold water even in the absence of gravitation.
(10) Furthermore, these findings demonstrate 195mpt localization in the vestibular labyrinth and confirm previous platinum distribution studies in the organ of Corti and stria vascularis tissues.
(11) Using previously obtained data concerning the effectivity of amedin in motor and speech disorders due to muscular dystonia the drug was used for the treatment of 50 children from 3.5 months to 18 years, with motor disorders of an extrapyramidal and labyrinth nature.
(12) In an attempt to destroy selectively the affected peripheral vestibular labyrinth in patients with intractable vertigo as a result of Meniere's disease, a known quantity of streptomycin was introduced within the bony labyrinth following fenestration of the horizontal semicircular canal.
(13) The psychological effects of postviral labyrinthitis in a patient who had been undergoing intensive psychotherapy are reported.
(14) The ethmoid air cell labyrinth lies adjacent to the medial orbital wall, extending even beyond the sutures of the ethmoid bone.
(15) Any variations of the nystagmus duration (increasing or decreasing) could result from different changes of the otolith signals from the two labyrinths.
(16) Vimentin occurred in a number of supporting structures in the membranous labyrinth, but not in vestibular or cochlear ganglion cells.
(17) Cytohistochemistry localized the Ca2+-ATPase to the chorionic villi of the placental labyrinth, and specific staining was primarily associated with the syncytio- and cytotrophoblast layers as well as the perivascular cells.
(18) Pressure recordings in the esophageal body, LES and stomach were performed in 10 healthy subjects before and after caloric stimulation of the labyrinth.
(19) On the basis of theoretical considerations and experimental studies, it can be shown that Menière's attacks result from rupture of the membranous labyrinth with diffusion of potassium into the perilymph and sodium into the endolymph.
(20) A qualitative electron microscopic investigation of endothelial cells in each subregion of the subfornical organ in Long-Evans rats revealed at least three types of capillary oriented according to region: in the rostral region were capillaries having no endothelial fenestrations or pericapillary spaces, and few vesicles, in the "transitional" region between the rostral and central regions, capillaries having no endothelial fenestrations, substantial numbers of vesicles, and narrow but perceptible pericapillary spaces were found, and in the central and caudal regions, capillaries having abundant endothelial fenestrations and vesicles, expansive pericapillary labyrinths, and relatively thin walls were present.
Labyrinthine
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Medical treatment has several objectives: the action of water on the metabolism, action on the behaviour of the labyrinthine capillaries and the biology of neurosensorial cells, action on vestibular information and the receptivity of the nerve centres and finally on the patients' lifestyle.
(2) The fashion business is nothing if not labyrinthine.
(3) Further examination revealed a chronic lead intoxication with neurologic and labyrinthine involvement.
(4) These centres do not control the nature of the nystagmic movement that consists of a slow and a fast components, the combined movements of the right and left eyes, the direction of the nystagmus, the range and the nature marking the distribution of the maximal movement and of the most frequent movements during the action of the stimulus and the symmetry of the labyrinthine function.
(5) Morphological evidence suggests that the membrane participates in: (a) the release of mechanical energy supplied by the ossicular chain to the labyrinthine fluids; (b) an alternative route for sound energy to enter the cochlea; (c) secretion into and absorption from perilymph; and (d) the defense system of the middle and inner ears.
(6) Labyrinthine channels of arterial capillaries were found in restricted regions in the red pulp neighboring pulp arteries and veins.
(7) Downbeat nystagmus seen in bilateral labyrinthine dysfunction.
(8) Labyrinthine trepanation was performed in the majority of 16 patients with minor agenesis of middle ear involving either stapedovestibular ankylosis or absence of fenestra vestibuli.
(9) Peripheral labyrinthine abnormalities are responsible for the majority of vertiginous symptoms.
(10) Since the National Assistance Act of 1948, incremental reform and the emergence of new legislative provisions has created a labyrinthine and anachronistic legal framework that is now scarcely fit for purpose.
(11) Although this series is not comprehensive enough, it seems to indicate that interruption of the lateral semicircular duct has a possibility of diminishing labyrinthine hydrops, as in cases of Ménière's disease, without hearing disturbance, provided that complications do not develop.
(12) The relationship between the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and gaze fixation was investigated in normal adults, normal children, patients with cerebellar lesion and patients with labyrinthine dysfunction.
(13) Drilling away one or several segments realizes a trans-petrous approach which always begins by drilling away the posterior-external segment, the retro-labyrinthine segment.
(14) Unitary response to labyrinthine stimulation was characterized by excitation and inhibition of rest discharge rate.
(15) Increasingly, surgeons are using a middle fossa approach though craniotomy to reach the labyrinthine segment of the facial nerve and geniculate ganglion in patients with intact hearing.
(16) In the ODE cells, abundant labyrinthine canals appeared in the cytoplasm, and capillary vessels were found close to the outer surface of the ODE cells.
(17) Whilst we tend to imagine a wholesale collapse scenario where chaos radiates outward from Pyongyang, we might better examine the possibility of chaos farther from the bright and labyrinthine capital city – and far closer to China.
(18) Preoperative findings are discussed, as well as the prevention and treatment of labyrinthine geysers and the possibility of obtaining a functioning labyrinthine opening.
(19) Annoyed at the labyrinthine politics of amateur boxing, Fury turned pro just after his 20th birthday.
(20) An attempted facial nerve decompression did not reach the area of primary pathology in the labyrinthine and meatal segments of the nerve, which could have been exposed by the transtemporal supralabyrinthine approach.