(1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(2) Receptor glomeruli have been studied in the arterial walls of the pia mater of the human brain and spinal cord by means of the light and electron microscopy methods.
(3) Within the arachnoid mater the immunoreactivity was concentrated in the basal zone of the arachnoid membrane, thus appearing as a narrow fluorescent band near the border of the dura.
(4) The anatomical arrangement of the pia mater suggests that it may act as a regulatory interface between cerebrospinal fluid and the surface of the brain and between arterioles within the brain and the surrounding neural tissue.
(5) Filopodia extending from the processes were found beneath the pia mater.
(6) Simultaneous opening of the dura mater on both sides with slow evacuation of the contents of the hematomas is an important stage of surgical intervention in BTSH.
(7) When administered at high concentrations (1 mg kg-1) methiothepin and metergoline decreased plasma protein extravasation in rat dura mater.
(8) Some occipital types of headache, "venous headache" or "strain headache", may benefit of a cross section of the occipital dura mater.
(9) The ES value is determined by differences in rates of size increment of the vertebral canal and in rates of size increment of the spinal cord dura mater (SCDM).
(10) We now report that, compared to controls, rats with acute EAE exhibit fewer detectable mast cells in their dura mater and velum interpositum.
(11) A six month prospective survey in 1990 of sports injuries presenting to the A+E department of St James and the Mater hospitals revealed 1594 patients, accounting for 3.8% of the total number of new patients seen in that period.
(12) A middle-aged woman presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies, hemiparesis, and CSF pleocytosis had tuberculous infection of the cranial dura mater at autopsy.
(13) After ligation of BCCA, the 5-HT granules of the walls of the brain vessels and the CA fibers of dura mater vessels decreased, but CA fibers occurred in the walls of the brain arteries.
(14) Quantitative and qualitative composition of catecholamines (noradrenaline and dophamine) and indolalkylamines (serotonin and tryptamine) and their localization have been studied in cells and neural fibers of the rat dura mater.
(15) MRI demonstrated hypertrophic dura mater in the posterior fossa and compressed cervical spinal cord.
(16) After removal of the dura mater, implantation of a closed cranial window, and intravenous injection of fluorescein, three-dimensional reconstructions of cortical capillaries were performed down to a depth of 250 microns below the pial surface.
(17) A case of primary malignant melanoma of the dura mater occuring in a 10-year-old girl is reported.
(18) In the second operation, instead of reinforcement of the dura mater, a shunt operation was performed to decompress the cyst and the locally dilated ventricle, which was thought to contribute to the intracranial expansive forces.
(19) All of the arachnoid villi and arachnoid cells in five normal cases were found to have expression of GST-pi, although no positive reaction for the enzyme was present in other tissues of the dura mater.
(20) Instead there is a complex, tight layer of cells, the interface layer, composed in the innermost portion of the dura mater (the dural border cells) and the outermost portion of the arachnoid (the arachnoid barrier layer).
Rater
Definition:
(n.) One who rates or estimates.
(n.) One who rates or scolds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(2) A rater-specifuc varuabke was fiybd fir eacg if tge fiyr raters.
(3) Study 1 assessed the effects of roentgenogram quality, raters, and seven measurement methods on the consistency and accuracy of evaluating translations in the sagittal plane.
(4) Videotaped interviews were used for assessing the level of inter-rater reliability and the communicability of the CPRS to unexperienced raters.
(5) In order to evaluate how many patients presenting at accident and emergency (A&E) departments show signs of psychiatric disturbance, 140 consecutive medical presentations to an A&E department were evaluated using a range of simple self-report and rater measures, then followed up a month later.
(6) This increase was greater with the inexperienced raters than with the experienced group.
(7) Interrater reliabilities, ranging from .62 to .83 across rater pairs, were superior to reliabilities reported in medical education studies.
(8) The DRS and LCFS were compared in terms of how consistently ratings could be made by different raters, how stable those ratings were from day to day, their relative correlation with Stover Zeiger (S-Z) ratings collected concurrently at admission, and with S-Z, Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS), and Expanded GOS (EGOS) ratings collected concurrently at discharge, and finally in the ability of admission DRS and LCFS scores to predict discharge ratings on the S-Z, GOS, and EGOS.
(9) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
(10) Two raters examined 45 children (90 hips), including patients with spastic diplegia and with meningomyelocele, who are prone to developing hip flexion contractures, and healthy subjects.
(11) Additional evaluations included interrater reliability and an evaluation that included longitudinal measurement, in which one subject was imaged sequentially 24 times, with reliability computed from data collected by three raters over 1 year.
(12) Furthermore, raters watched the synchronously recorded video versions of the subject's face and rated them as to expressivity.
(13) Each rater evaluated the transcript of 15 prenatal interviews.
(14) These differences diminish when more highly educated raters are used.
(15) Prealcohol and postalcohol responses were assessed by self-rating scales of affect and mood, independent rater observation, perceptual-motor, and cognitive performance tasks.
(16) Intrarater reliability for each of the four nurse-raters on a random sample was at a significant level.
(17) Several investigators have used the Brier index to measure the predictive accuracy of a set of medical judgments; the Brier scores of different raters who have evaluated the same patients provides a measure of relative accuracy.
(18) Comparison of reliability scores across rating conditions indicated that the videotape medium had little effect on the ability of raters to rate affective flattening similarly.
(19) Calibrated raters were unaware of group affiliation of products.
(20) The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Clinical Global Impressions (CGI) scale were administered at study entry and once a week by a blind rater.