(a.) Of or pertaining to the larynx; adapted to operations on the larynx; as, laryngeal forceps.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant differences between laryngectomee and nonlaryngectomee judges were found when rating alaryngeal speakers, but not when rating normal, laryngeal speakers.
(2) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
(3) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
(4) In another study, reinnervation was sufficient to allow normal laryngeal function during exercise.
(5) Results indicate that laryngeal paralysis following severe trauma can be a very early sign of aortic injury and requires prompt and thorough investigation.
(6) After induction of anesthesia, the airway of those in group A was maintained with a conventional tracheal tube; in group B, with a laryngeal mask airway.
(7) This paper reviews the state of the art knowledge of laryngeal physiology and evaluates the parameters necessary for voice production following laryngeal surgery for cancer.
(8) Six patients had miniplates used to repair the thyroid cartilage defect after type I thyroplasty to prevent lateralization of the Silastic implant; three patients had miniplates used after hemilaryngectomy to bridge the thyroid cartilage remnants, resulting in better deglutition after hemilaryngectomy; and three patients had miniplates used to repair laryngeal fractures.
(9) Total thyroidectomy removes all visible thyroid tissue although it is permissible to leave a very small remnant of tissue (less than a fraction of a gram) in the region of the ligament of Berry in order to protect the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the blood supply to the parathyroid glands.
(10) Here a diaphragm support breath pattern was used in voice therapy for patients with vocal nodules, recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, and incomplete glottal closure.
(11) Then this phase relationship was temporally disturbed by a brief electrical stimulation of the superior laryngeal nerve (SLN).
(12) Subjective voice abnormality and physical growths such as the development of the laryngeal prominence were often noted even before the rapid phase.
(13) It is advised that careful laryngeal examination follow extubation.
(14) The evolution of treatment of laryngeal cancer has passed a number of milestones.
(15) The appendix of the laryngeal ventricle courses superiorly between the laryngeal vestibule and the thyroid cartilage which differentiates this normal structure from ulcerations and fistulous tracts of laryngeal tumors.
(16) Laryngeal paraganglioma, carcinoid tumor, and small-cell carcinoma are rare.
(17) Following the increase in lung liquid volume there were no changes in the incidence or amplitude of fetal inspiratory muscle activity, the activity of laryngeal adductor muscles or in the duration of sleep states.
(18) We reduced the duration and intensity (i.e., integrated peak height) of phrenic nerve discharge for single cycles by stimulating the cut central end of the superior laryngeal nerve (SLN) during the central inspiratory phase (75 microA, 20-50 Hz, 0.2-ms pulse).
(19) The spectrum of disabilities attendant to laryngeal paralysis range from mild hoarseness to complete upper airway obstruction depending upon the static position of the paralyzed cord or cords.
(20) Thirteen adult human larynges were studied by indirect lymphangiography to observe laryngeal lymphatic distributions.
Laryngology
Definition:
(n.) Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of the larynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases of the larynx.
Example Sentences:
(1) The report covers the therapeutic results achieved after using cytostatic drugs in 104 patients treated at the 1st Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Univ.
(2) The equilibrium troubles occuring in connection with cervical locomotoric diseases and their otorhino-laryngologic relations have been studied in the ORL Department of National Institute of Rheumatism and Medical Hydrology.
(3) The article is aimed at laryngologists in general, not surgeons in particular, and has implications for laryngology (being a putative model of diagnostic procedures), physiology (what forces create epilaryngeal configurations?
(4) Percutaneous needle laryngeal electromyography was used in 22 patients with an established vocal cord palsy of non-laryngological cause.
(5) The instruments and technique presented are redesigns of ones used in laryngology for 30 years.
(6) On the basis of the relevant laryngological literature, as well as less well-known sources, the probability of this assumption, the particular symptoms, and the fulminant course of the disease are documented.
(7) The incidence of infections in other organs (abdominal, dermatological, laryngological and miscellaneous) remained virtually constant over the individual decades.
(8) The need for microscopic rhinoscopy is obvious to otolaryngologists who have used the operating microscope in otology and laryngology.
(9) Report of three cases of mucoepidermoid tumors with rare locations in laryngological areas (fundus of the tongue, retromolar trigonum, nasopharynx and sinuses).
(10) We report a case of a forty-three year old man presenting with multifocal bronchocentric granulomatosis which was revealed following some oto-rhino-laryngological and bronchopulmonary symptoms.
(12) Medical and laryngological examinations were done several times in 125 workers of the Maritime Merchant Haven in Gdańsk overloading phosphates, apatites, and crystalline sulphur compounds.
(13) At the 1976 Southern Sectional Meeting of American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc., a color movie presenting two cases on the "diagnosis and treatment of glomus jugulare tumors of the middle ear and mastoid" was shown.
(14) We describe a familial series in which both otologic and laryngologic abnormalities were present.
(15) Patients with chronic uraemia and renal transplant recipients were examined for oto-rhino-laryngological diseases over the course of a five-year period.
(16) The study of the occupational environment effect on workers' health revealed the most prevalent skin, laryngologic, gastrointestinal and bronchiopulmonary diseases.
(17) The number of patients hospitalized for acute infection in the frontal sinuses at the Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology of Turku University Hospital has increased markedly during the last decade.
(18) Laryngological examinations were carried out in 528 workers and candidates for work in the mine.
(19) Present day knowledge in laryngology maintains that the free edge of the true cord mucosa is devoid of glands so that retention cysts should not occur in this tissue.
(20) All pateints underwent detailed laryngologic and allergologic examiniation and pulmonary function tests at rest, after exercise, and after histamine inhalation.