What's the difference between modiolus and muscle?

Modiolus


Definition:

  • (n.) The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The electrodes can be implanted in bundles through the round window or into the modiolus; they can, however, also be introduced individually through several drill holes in the promontory for placement in the scala tympani and vestibuli.
  • (2) The peripheral and central axons also degenerated, and the losses of both the radial nerve fibers in the osseous spiral lamina and the central axons passing into the modiolus displayed selective topographies that paralleled the cell loss within the spiral ganglion.
  • (3) In the developing cochlear nerve, a central tissue projection is present before birth, but regresses somewhat before a marked outgrowth of central nervous tissue along the nerve takes place, which reaches into the modiolus during the first week postnatum.
  • (4) A trough around the modiolus was drilled, and the electrode array was placed in it.
  • (5) The function of the vessel loops in the modiolus is to flatten the pulse wave as well as to regulate the blood flow in the microvascular bed by vasomotion.
  • (6) The cochlea was dissected into three parts: organ of Corti + modiolus (OC + M), lateral wall (LW), and cochlear nerve (CN), and then PG's formed by these tissues were determined after a 5-min incubation of the homogenates.
  • (7) Implantation involved creation of a channel for the electrode to wrap around the modiolus.
  • (8) Each unit begins with special blood vessel convoluts in the modiolus, consisting of loops of arterioles.
  • (9) The openings in the bone on the scala vestibuli and tympani sides of the modiolus are considered to be communication routes for the transport of fluids from the perineural and perivascular spaces in the modiolus to the perilymph in the scalae.
  • (10) In cryostat sections, tyrosine hydroxylase and dopamine beta-hydroxylase-like immunoreactivities fibers were seen in the modiolus that did not extend to the organ of Corti.
  • (11) A vessel, formed by the confluence of the vascular network on the modiolar wall and having a spiral course into the internal auditory meatus was found in the modiolus of the basal turn.
  • (12) HRP permeated interendothelial spaces lining the modiolus to reach the scala vestibuli lymphatics close to all the above areas were also permeated by HRP, but the inner tunnel was devoid of the marker.
  • (13) Multiple anomalies include: abnormal narrowing of the crus commune-utricle junction, superiorly located crus commune and posterior semicircular canal, underdeveloped modiolus, absence of the bony septum between the middle and apical coil (existence of scala communis in left ear), abnormally small internal auditory meatus, and abnormal direction of internal auditory canal, large cartilaginous mass around the superior semicircular canal and in the tympanic end of the fissula ante fenestram, small facial nerve, large facial bony canal dehiscence, anomalic stapes, etc.
  • (14) These scanning electron microscopic findings were confirmable by serial sections of the dural veins in the internal auditory meatus and the modiolus.
  • (15) Preliminary studies have shown that the nerve will survive the placement of electrodes both into the modiolus and the scala tympani.
  • (16) Some accumulation of lidocaine was found in the modiolus, but almost none in the stria vascularis.
  • (17) These regenerating cochlear nerve fibers were found in the osseous spiral lamina, modiolus and internal auditory meatus, but these fibers atrophied and disappeared afterward.
  • (18) However, detailed information concerning the vasculature of the modiolus is still unavailable, and even the existence of venous drainage through the internal auditory meatus is not agreed upon.
  • (19) The modiolus on the scala vestibuli side had a canal for the spiral modiolar artery.
  • (20) The spiral ganglion dendrites within the osseous spiral lamina of the basal turn project radially, nearly perpendicular to the central axis of the modiolus.

Muscle


Definition:

  • (n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.
  • (n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
  • (n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.
  • (n.) See Mussel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
  • (2) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
  • (3) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
  • (4) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (5) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
  • (6) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
  • (7) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
  • (8) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
  • (9) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (10) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
  • (11) Peripheral eosinocytes increased by 10%, and tests for HBsAg, antiHBs, antimitochondrial antibody and anti-smooth muscle antibody were all negative.
  • (12) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
  • (13) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
  • (14) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
  • (15) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
  • (16) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
  • (17) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
  • (18) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
  • (19) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
  • (20) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.

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