What's the difference between maxillary and palpator?
Maxillary
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.
(n.) The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
(n.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.
Example Sentences:
(1) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(2) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
(3) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
(4) Separation and recombination experiments, employing a variety of tissue configurations in organ culture, were performed to determine the extent to which the epithelium of the maxillary process influences the viability of the underlying mesenchyme during organogenesis.
(5) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
(6) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(7) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(8) Maxillary and mandibular incisors and premolars of three rhesus monkeys were used.
(9) A case history is presented of a 10-year-old patient, who accidentally injured her maxillary central incisor.
(10) The results suggest that there is a general tendency for tooth mortality to be lower in the present survey and this change is particularly noticeable for maxillary incisor and canine teeth.
(11) Epistaxis was common in tumors of the ethmoid sinus and nasal fossae, while pain was related to lesions of the maxillary sinus.
(12) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(13) In order to achieve palatal closure with the least possible impediment to maxillary growth, the two-stage repair seems to be the best procedure in our hands.
(14) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
(15) Secretion rate and electrolyte concentrations (Na+, K+ and Cl-) in the lacrimal fluid samples were determined before and after injections of small doses of prostaglandins (PGE1, PGE2, PGF1 alpha, PGF2 alpha, 15 epi-PGF2 alpha, PGF2 beta, PGA1 & PGA2) into the external maxillary artery.
(16) A case of extramedullary maxillary sinus plasmocytoma a 39-year-old man is described.
(17) A radiopaque impression material can be used so that the radiographic outline of the maxillary sinus on standard radiographic projections can be shown.
(18) The authors describe a rare case of mucocele of maxillary sinus and, on the basis of the histological and namely of the ultrastructural findings, they maintain that the mucocele has in all probability a multiple pathogenesis being dependent not only on the inflammatory processes, but also on other local predisposing factors and namely the active participation of the mucosa in the formation of the cavity of mucocele.
(19) The cause is considered being an unsufficient antibiotical treatment of maxillary sinusitis.
(20) Although X-ray studies in many of the patients revealed mucosal swelling four weeks after surgery, the maxillary sinuses were well aerated 8 weeks after operation.
Palpator
Definition:
(n.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(2) on, whereas palpation is only possible upward of 15 mm.
(3) The Canadian Home Fitness Test is a self-administered procedure in which the participant steps at an age- and sex-specific rhythm controlled by recorded music, then palpates the pulse immediately following activity.
(4) Palpation and puncture are used for diagnosis of some tumors.
(5) A through pancreatic mobilization and palpation was performed during operation.
(6) These results are superior even to those of surgeons with 30 years of experience specializing in the breast (86.9%, 85.3%, and 85.8%), especially when tumors cannot be palpated.
(7) It is of mechanical or mixed type, accompanied by local, pseudo-inflammatory signs being either apparent or discrete, very elective and very sharp pain upon palpation of a very limited area of a condyle or a tibial plate, with hyperfixation located through scintigraphy with technetium 99m polyphosphates, and regressing either spontaneously, or more quickly under treatment, of which thyrocalcitone is the essential part, without undergoing a phase of intense loco-regional demineralization.
(8) Both sonography and palpation failed to identify their presence in 4 tests.
(9) The data obtained by intraatrial palpation were compared with the data obtained by TEE.
(10) An intra-abdominal abscess was diagnosed in a 7-year-old mare by palpation per rectum and from abnormal clinicopathologic findings.
(11) Preoperatively, blood chemistry studies were done in addition to palpation of the abdomen.
(12) Peritoneography was performed in 122 patients clinically suspected of hernia without definite palpation findings.
(13) Treatment consisted of cholecystectomy also in the four patients in whom no stones could be palpated in the gallbladder.
(14) However its depth and tense, cystic feeling on palpation, were considered somewhat unusual.
(15) TAU approach showed a significant inferiority (p less than 0.02) and TVU a significant superiority (p less than 0.08) in comparison to palpation.
(16) A 65-year-old woman experienced transient paralysis of the left arm immediately after palpation of the right carotid artery; at surgery, a friable, atherosclerotic plaque was removed from the bifurcation of the artery.
(17) Four (40%) demonstrated an objective response to treatment: Three patients had a decrease in tumor mass on computed tomography (CT) scan, and one patient had a reduction in liver size as measured by palpation.
(18) The ultrasonic diagnosis as a method of recognising postoperative subprosthetical breast pathological changes (respectively of simulated tumor recidivs and implanted breast prosthesis) located near the thorax and therefore difficult to detect by external palpation and mammography examination have been described in a follow-up study, and further possibilities of application suggested.
(19) The effect of anti-parkinson drugs on reserpine-induced rigidity was examined using a technique which measured rigidity by hind limb palpation.
(20) Standardized headache history; plain film and dynamic spinal X rays; motion palpation; and pressure algometry.