(1) In this connection the author divides vertigo into peripheral (labyrinthiform and radicle) and central (nucleus, supra-nuclear, "higher").
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.