(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.
Larynx
Definition:
(n.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(2) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
(3) General anaesthesia with apneic oxygenation may offer the ENT surgeon increased possibilities of exploration and operation at the level of the larynx and trachea, but owing to its biological consequences, it should be used only with circumspection and its indications should be totally justified, for acts of limited duration.
(4) Although the majority of papillomatous lesions of the oral cavity and the larynx contain papillomavirus DNA sequences, other benign and malignant lesions still remain negative.
(5) Compared to related compounds, N-nitrosobis(2-hydroxypropyl)amine and N-nitrosobis(2-acetoxy-propyl)amine which are also pancreatic carcinogens, BOP induced only a few neoplasms of the lung, liver, and kidney and none in the nasal cavity, larynx, and trachea.
(6) The respiratory functions of the oropharynx, larynx, and trachea of normal human fetuses in utero were explored by means of real-time, two-dimensional ultrasonography combined with color-flow and spectral Doppler analysis.
(7) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(8) Simultaneously a significant decrease of the oxidative activity of serum ceruloplasmin in the individuals with carcinoma of the larynx after a previous surgical treatment was observed.
(10) Hypoxic mixtures introduced into the larynx did not change breathing.
(11) Attacks of HANE, sometimes fatal when involving the larynx may, among other causes, be triggered by the anesthetist's manipulation of the upper airway (tracheal intubation).
(12) When tracheal intubation is essential and mouth opening is less than 25 mm, it is unlikely that the larynx will be visualized by direct laryngoscopy.
(13) To review the physiologic basis for normal and abnormal vagal reflexes arising from the pharynx, larynx, and esophagus, as well as the relevance of vagal reflexes to the pathogenesis of such clinically common cardiorespiratory responses as bradycardia, tachycardia, dysrhythmia, coronary angiospasm, bronchospasm, laryngospasm, prolonged apnea, and singultus (hiccups).
(14) Together with regional and topical anesthesia of the larynx and trachea, this method resulted in stable maternal hemodynamics without resulting in neonatal depression.
(15) The risk for a smoker of developing cancer of the larynx depends on the activity of the enzyme arylhydroxcarbonhydroxylase in his cells.
(16) IR-ACTH, IR-gamma MSH, and IR-beta END were detected in all six pheochromocytomas and all 12 lung tumors (six squamous cell carcinomas, five adenocarcinomas, and one small cell carcinoma) we examined, as well as in a squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx.
(17) Hypoparathyroidism occurs secondary to surgery for carcinoma of the pharynx and larynx in which a total thyroidectomy is required.
(18) Loss of HLA class I antigens was more frequent on basal cell carcinomas and sarcomas and was related to tumour differentiation on larynx carcinoma.
(19) Recent studies have shown the rat larynx to be an important organ in the evaluation of irritancy of inhaled materials.
(20) These pathways affect the following respiratory structures: bronchial smooth muscle; the mucociliary system; the larynx; and the nose.