(n.) The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.
(n.) Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal
(n.) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.
(n.) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
(n.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board.
(n.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.
(n.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.
(v. t.) To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft.
(v. t. & i.) To kiss and caress amorously.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) Three of the patients had had fractures of the femoral neck.
(3) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(5) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(6) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(7) A neck clipping of the aneurysm and an aneurysmectomy were performed on September 27.
(8) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(9) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(10) Water immersion (WI) to the neck induces prompt increases in central blood volume, central venous pressure, and atrial distension.
(11) This study reviewed 148 patients who had received radiation for head and neck cancer.
(12) In 17 patients with femoral neck fractures who were between 15 and 40 years old the incidence of aseptic necrosis in patients followed more than 2 years was 18.7 per cent.
(13) Patients with femoral neck fractures treated at a department of orthopedic surgery in a university hospital and one retrospective control sample from a department of general surgery in a county hospital.
(14) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(15) We treated a 62-year-old man with intermittent polyarthritis whose neck pain was prominent.
(16) Nine of the patients had tumors which were diagnosed as follicular carcinoma, 4 of whom had recurrences in the neck region.
(17) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
(18) When the supraomohyoid neck dissection specimen showed no involvement, the overall incidence of treatment failure in the neck at 2-year follow-up was 5 percent.
(19) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
(20) This weakness and its role in persistent neck pain should be recognized.
Splenius
Definition:
(n.) A flat muscle of the back of the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) The insertions of the sternocleidomastoid, the splenius capitis, the longissimus capitis and the obliquus capitis superior muscles were measured.
(2) The responses to stimulation of upper cervical muscle and cutaneous afferents were studied in motoneurons innervating splenius, complexus, and biventer cervicis dorsal neck muscles of cats.
(3) We have studied in 32 healthy subjects the EMG activity of biceps and triceps brachii, wrist flexors and wrist extensors, triceps surae and tibialis anterior, sterno-cleido-mastoideus (SCM) and splenius, during their passive shortening.
(4) This area includes the laterally located motoneuronal cell groups, innervating cleidomastoid, clavotrapezius and splenius motoneurons.
(5) A statistical analysis of the error yields the following classes of correspondences: (a) Excellent: 1st Dorsal Interosseus (hand) = LI-4; Abductor Pollicis Brevis = Lu-10; Abductor Minimi Digiti = SI-4; 1st Dorsal Interosseus (foot) = LI-3; Tibialis Anterior = Curious Locus; Orbicularis Oculi = GB-1; Frontalis = GB-14; Splenius Capitis = GB-20; Sternocleidomastoid = LI-18; Semi Spinalis Capitis = BI-10.
(6) The operation can be carried out unilaterally and bilaterally, while the spinal accessory nerve, the splenius capitis, and sternomastoid muscles are being preserved.
(7) The IIB class was absent from the splenius and the occurrence of I and IIA fibers did not change during the period of splenius growth.
(8) The reflex connexions from muscle afferents and ventral root fibres to the motoneurones of the muscles biventer-cervicis, complexus, sternocleidomastoid, trapezius and splenius, the principal muscles involved in head movement in the cat, were studied with the technique of intracellular recording.
(9) One-third of these patients had also dystonic activation of the contralateral splenius muscle and, rarely, the contralateral trapezius muscle.
(10) Of the 69 patients treated by salvage neck dissection, 38 were confirmed pathologically to have soft tissues involvement, such as sternocleidomastoid, digastric, splenius, and levator scapular muscles, and 2 had hypoglossus nerve and carotid sheath involvement.
(11) Nine patients had retrocollis due to activity of both splenius muscles and rarely additional activity in both trapezius muscles.
(12) Such characteristic head posture was produced by successful kainic acid injections as well as by electrolytic lesions, suggesting that it was not due to damage of nerve fibers passing through the INC, but was produced most probably by damage of nerve cells in the INC. Electromyographic (EMG) recordings in unilateral INC-lesioned cats showed that activity was higher in the ipsilateral than in the contralateral major dorsal neck muscles (biventer, splenius, complexus, and rectus), and also higher in the contralateral than in the ipsilateral obliquus capitis caudalis muscle.
(13) Splenius and occipitoscapularis have torque in all three coordinate directions.
(14) The operative procedure includes partial resection of the upper part of the trapezius, part of the splenius muscles of both sides, part of the semispinalis capitis and semispinalis cervicis muscles of both sides.
(15) In order to investigate such a phasic component of the eye-head synergy in humans, we have recorded the activity of isolated motor units in the splenius muscle during large horizontal eye movements in head fixed subjects.
(16) Patterns of EMG activities of neck muscles around the onset of the caudate-induced head-turning were characterized by an increase in activity of the splenius, the longissimus cervicis and the obliquus capitis caudalis muscles, and by a decrease in activity of the complexus, the biventer cervicis and the cervical multifidus on the side of flexion.
(17) The latency of these responses was short: about 7 ms in the sternomastoid and splenius and 9 ms in the trapezius muscles.
(18) In lateral splenius, the motor domains are separated by tendinous inscriptions.
(19) Single stimulation in the Gasserian ganglion ipsi- and contralateral to the recording side evoked excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) in motoneurones innervating the lateral head flexor muscle splenius (SPL) and the head elevator muscles biventer cervicis and complexus (BCC).
(20) Following dissection of the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid and the anterior border of the splenius capitis the two muscles are held apart and the levator scapulae is transected at its origin from C1.