What's the difference between lingual and lingula?
Lingual
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.
(n.) A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(2) This was found to be homologous with the N-terminal sequence of rat lingual lipase.
(3) On the buccal and lingual aspects of the implants, both the absolute lengths and CLF were significantly smaller for the porous-coated design.
(4) An abscess of a lingual tonsil should be drained under general anesthesia, and lingual thyroid should be treated conservatively unless it produces obstructive symptoms.
(5) All the teeth were also measured on both their buccal and lingual aspects to assess the amount of gingival recession.
(6) It was suggested that they might be viewed as a representative sample of magnitude-estimation numbers that could be employed in experimentation on lingual vibrotactile magnitude production.
(7) A bucco-lingual cross action through the mandible in the canine area revealed central osteomas.
(8) Cervical cavities were prepared on the lingual and vestibular surfaces in 19 freshly extracted human teeth.
(9) Twelve weeks after crushing the lingual nerve, the regenerated fibres had slower conduction velocities but the receptor properties were not significantly different from normal.
(10) The results indicate that the tongue-to-teeth contact area of each sound differ from the others, however, it's range is confined within cervical half of lingual surface of incisors and lingual cusps of molars.
(11) Three main clinical entities of various intensity have been defined: 8 patients had severe intellectual and motor dysfunctions associated with a bucco-lingual dyspraxia; in 4 patients, the intellectual and motor alterations were less intense but were associated with a severe bucco-lingual dyspraxia; finally one patient had no clinical symptomatology but a chronic lymphocytic meningitis.
(12) In the lingual portion of the incisal periodontal ligament, these nerve fibers were localized in the alveolar half of the periodontal ligament and were observed as free nerve endings.
(13) Data System DALI (Drawing Arch Lingual Ideal) allows to draw the exact design of the wire.
(14) Two-dimensional photoelastic analysis of resin-bonded cingulum rest seats demonstrated improvement in stress distribution when the lingual surface of the tooth was prepared with a cingulum groove.
(15) A macular-sparing superior altitudinal hemianopia with no visuo-psychic disturbance, except impaired visual learning, was associated with bilateral ischaemic necrosis of the lingual gyrus and only partial involvement of the fusiform gyrus on the left side.
(16) Plaque was assessed at baseline and at the end of the 2-week study period using the Turesky modification of the Quigley and Hine index for all buccal and lingual surfaces.
(17) Both drugs relieved the parkinsonian symptoms but the animals on Sinemet developed after 2 weeks prominent lingual dyskinesia which remained visible after each dose until the end of the experiment.
(18) The nerve with the largest proportion of these fibers is the auriculotemporal nerve (50-60% of all labeled neurons), while the smallest percentages are found in the lingual nerve and motor root (about 5% each).
(19) We have concluded from the final data that the sublingual bar compares favorably with the lingual plate in patient acceptance and should be considered as a viable design alternative when a lingual plate is not indicated.
(20) A study of intermandibular variations in bone mass in cortices between regions of the alveolar process and mandibular body and between buccal and lingual cortices in the same region has been carried out.
Lingula
Definition:
(n.) A tonguelike process or part.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Part of the fibers was mixed with the spheno-mandibular ligament and attaches on the lingula of the mandible.
(2) Using both a morphometric and a semiquantitative grading system (r = 0.80), we noted that both fibrosis and pulmonary vasculopathy were more evident in the lingula than in either of the 2 other lung segments (p less than 0.05 ANOVA, Newman-Keul test).
(3) These strongly suggest that the fibrous structure of organic matrix assists the orientation of apatite crystals in Lingula unguis shell.
(4) The regional distribution of [3H]etorphine binding sites in the rabbit cerebellum points toward concentrations higher in the neocerebellum (hemispheres) than in the archecerebellum (lingula and flocculonodular lobe).
(5) A previously unreported pattern of MAC-PD was observed: disease limited to the lingula or middle lobe occurred in 21% of the patients, all female.
(6) Collapse of the left lower lobe is sometimes accompanied by linear atelectasis in the lingula.
(7) The lavage was performed two months after radiotherapy, in the anterior part of the lingula (left side) or of the right middle lobe (right side), depending on which side had been exposed to radiation.
(8) The lingula was exposed sterilely through a left thoracotomy.
(9) The amino acid sequence of the beta chain of hemerythrin from Lingula unguis was determined.
(10) A well-circumscribed nodular mass was excised from the lingula of the left lung of a 40-year-old-female.
(11) Measurements were made to locate vertically the point of fusion of the buccal and lingual cortical plates relative to the lingula and to the depth of the sigmoid notch.
(12) The modified nucleoside, 7-(4,5-cis-dihydroxy-1-cyclopenten-3-yl-aminomethyl)-7-deazaguanosine, designated as Q, and its derivative, Q*, were found in tRNA's from various organisms, including several mammalian tissues, other animals such as starfish, lingula and hagfish, and wheat germ.
(13) This was not a function of vessel size, since the overall cumulative distribution curve of percent muscle divided by length of internal elastic lamina was also shifted between lingula and lower lobe.
(14) Meckel's cartilage appeared as a single, continuous fibrous structure lying between the mandibular lingula and the malleus of the middle ear in fetuses of 210 mm crown-rump length (22 weeks of age) and over.
(15) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
(16) Subsegmental bronchi of the left inferior lingula were seen in only 17%, but other subsegmental bronchi in greater than 75%.
(17) The middle lobe was the most common site of bronchiectatic involvement, followed by the lower lobes and the lingula.
(18) Even in a normal-sized mandibular ramus, a high lingula places the medial cut in a thin region where there is little or no cancellous bone.
(19) In 20 of the nonimmunocompromised patients, computed tomography was performed prior to biopsy, and demonstrated no particular tendency for greater involvement of the lingula or right middle lobe.
(20) An increase in the identification rate of the segmental bronchi of the middle lobe and lingula was achieved only after reducing the slice thickness from 8 mm to 4 mm, the yield being now 87% (512 image matrix) and 82% (256 image matrix), respectively, whereas the remaining segmental bronchi could be made to show up almost without exception.