(1) In the same subject, also the ratio between the number of the muscle spindles found in m. rectus dorsalis and that of m. levator palpebrae superioris was examined.
(2) Bilateral palsy of the superior rectus and bilateral assymetrical palsy of the levator palpebrae muscles would result.
(3) The location of motoneurons innervating the musculus levator palpebrae superioris (LPS) was studied in the monkey (Macaca irus) by using Fast blue (FB) and propidium iodide (PI) as retrograde neuronal tracers.
(4) The data show that similar increases in levator palpebrae activity produce the upward lid movements that accompany upward saccadic eye movements as well as the upward phase of a blink.
(5) We describe two children with corneal epithelial defects resistant to healing in whom protective temporary ptosis was induced with type A botulinum toxin injected to the levator palpebrae superioris.
(6) The levator palpebrae superioris muscles from 12 cases of Marcus Gunn phenomenon were examined histologically by means of histochemistry and morphometry.
(7) Affected muscles are usually those of the pharynx, causing dysphagia, and the levator palpebra muscles.
(8) The levator palpebrae superioris contains three of the same ultrastructurally defined types of singly innervated muscle fiber found in the global layer of other extraocular muscles and an additional, unique slow-twitch fiber type.
(9) Two patients with diplopia presented with unilateral oculomotor palsy, defective elevation of the contralateral eye, and sparing of the levator palpebrae muscle.
(10) Excellent results were obtained using a modification of Grove's marginal myotomy procedure for lengthening the levator palpebrae superiorus muscle.
(11) The loop had a few branches of which the thick one supplied the M. levator palpebrae superioris and smaller ones innervated the anomalous ocular muscle from the ventral and sometimes dorsal sides.
(12) A simplified levator palpebrae superioris (LPS) muscle recession was performed to correct eyelid retraction in 56 eyelids of 48 patients.
(13) While levator palpebrae proved uninformative because of the massive fibrous degeneration of muscle, orbicularis oculi biopsies showed histochemical and ultrastructural alterations indicating a mitochondrial involvement, resembling that reported in ocular mitochondrial myopathies (OMM).
(14) A patient with longstanding dysthyroid eye disease developed a broad adhesion between the globe and the upper eyelid following simultaneous surgery to recess the levator palpebrae superioris and lateral rectus muscles.
(15) The clinical features of the individual (small stature and impaired mental development, hypoplastic thumbs, ptosis palpebrae hypoplastic external male genitalia, abnormal dermatoglphic pattern) did not conform to a specific phenotype.
(16) Botulinum toxin A produces a temporary, flaccid ptosis when injected into the levator palpebrae superioris muscle.
(17) Two patients underwent frontalis muscle sling surgery and a third underwent levator palpebrae superioris muscle resection.
(18) using special curved haemostat for the correction of mild to moderate acquired ptosis with good Levator Palpebrae Superioris (L.P.S.)
(19) The homogeneous opening of eye is obtained by a fascia lata transplant with an upside-down "y" shape that joins the tarsus with the levator palpebrae superioris muscle.
(20) There had been slowly progressive bilateral ptosis and there was almost no levator palpebra muscular activity left, resulting in extreme head tilt.
Palpebral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hyperopia was more common in younger persons, but senile cataract, macular degeneration and palpebral dermatochalasis or blepharochalasis were more common in older persons.
(2) Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement disorder characterized by a deficiency of abduction, mild limitation of adduction, with retraction and narrowing of the palpebral fissure on attempted adduction.
(3) Active palpebral occlusion was retained by means of the orbital portion of the orbicularis muscle.
(4) Palpebral fissures are narrow with bilateral epicanthal folds, and the nasal bridge is hypoplasitc.
(5) The clinical study of the major cranio-facial malformations such as Apert syndrome, Treacher-Collins syndrome, Blepharophimosis and Bilateral Cleft Palate patients, lead us to note a similarity of the orbito-palpebral region.
(6) Confluent patches of flat pigmentation appeared over the palpebral conjunctiva 18 weeks after the onset of treatment and showed progressive lateral enlargement and darkening.
(7) Autonomic behavior such as opening of palpebral fissure and pupil size were also delayed.
(8) On the basis of their symptoms, it is suggested that infantile eczema is not an essential sign of the disorder, whereas the high frequency of hernia, strabism and upward slant of the palpebral fissures is underestimated in the literature.
(9) The treatment of palpebral hyperlaxity was the prerequisite for good results with keratoplasty.
(10) Comparison of this patient with thirteen previously published cases of this trisomy reveals a pattern of common features including: peculiar craniofacial dysmorphism--facial asymmetry, antimongoloid slant, narrow or short palpebral fissures, prominent nose, long upper lip, micro or retrognathia, high arched palate, low set ears, malformed ears, protuberant occiput--, abnormal fingers and toes, short neck, mental and growth retardation, cardiopathy, respiratory distress etc..
(11) It was found that the muscle fibers of the orbital part were composed predominantly of large and middle diameter group II B, while the palpebral part consisted mainly of small diameter group II A.
(12) ABR thresholds were determined by the weakest stimulus that elicited a recognizable and replicable wave V. Behavioural audiometric thresholds for 1 and 2 kHz pure tones were determined by taking the lowest of threshold for eliciting auro-palpebral reflex.
(13) A boy with growth and mental retardation, flat occiput, high and broad forehead, blepharoptosis, narrow palpebral fissures, low set, malformed ears, short neck, anal atresia, deep sacral dimple is reported.
(14) Palpebral malformation which occurs very rarely in cases with renal malformations as reported in the literature was ascribed to hereditary factors.
(15) We report on a Japanese girl with short stature, malar hypoplasia, up-slanting palpebral fissures, blue sclerae and thin, stiff and slightly brownish hair.
(16) A periorbital bruit and venous engorgement of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae are pathognomonic features.
(17) Attempts were made to surgically establish an artificial palpebral fissure.
(18) The facial region of the developing rat is surrounded by seven highly innervated hair follicle groups, of which the lateral tactile hairs have an invariant position between the palpebral fissures and the developing external ears.
(19) A proximal 19q duplication was observed in lymphocytes of a young boy with mental retardation, dysmorphism (weight excess, macrocephaly, downward slanted palpebral fissures, hypertelorism, broad nose, typical mouth), without visceral malformation.
(20) In Sorex, living preominantly on the ground, there is a duct-like palpebral fissure, and most of the parts of the visual system are well developed in adaptation to its life habits.