What's the difference between patulous and spread?
Patulous
Definition:
(a.) Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relationship between sudden hearing loss and an ipsilateral patulous tube was tested in our Eustachian tube laboratory.
(2) Depending on the degree of patency, the patulous tube showed either a synchronous change of the tympanal pressure with that of the pharyngeal cavity or an early and sudden drop of the tympanal pressure without deglutition.
(3) Nineteen of the patients were found to have patulous Eustachian tubes in 1 or both ears as evidenced by impedance variations synchronous with the respiration.
(4) Complications of tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy include hemorrhage, anesthetic death, infection, nasopharyngeal stenosis, patulous eustachian tube, and hypernasality.
(5) There was no indication of a facilitated passive tubal opening nor a tendency to a patulous tube among our patients.
(6) Patulous Eustachian tube (tuba aperta) is a distressing condition for the patient with such symptoms as autophony and a sensation of fullness in the ear.
(7) It is postulated that thrombosis in the arteriovenous fistula group was induced by conversion (due to embolization) of a patulous high flow venous outlet into a slow flow system; in the vein-of-Galen group, the occlusion was thought to be due to high-flow venopathy.
(8) Of importance is the concept that the so-called patulous cardia, or effaced abdominal esophagus or widened or absent "submerged segment," is a variety of sliding hiatal hernia that is often neglected radiologically but may be of considerable clinical significance.
(9) The cases reported illustrate three surgical criteria necessary to manage these unusual cases successfully: removal of sufficient diseased bone to create a patulous canal; resurfacing denuded bony areas with thin split-thickness skin grafts to prevent soft tissue contractions; an adequate meatoplasty.
(10) Therefore, in this experiment, we attempted to design a method by which we could examine tubal function and make both diagnoses and therapeutic evaluations of patulous tube.
(11) An equally high cure rate was obtained by the endoscopic operation even in patients who had a high grade VUR, patulous ureteral orifices, an underlying neurogenic bladder, or episodes of urinary tract infection.
(12) Sonographic findings suggestive of an ODL include low position of the conus, nontapered bulbous appearance of the conus, dorsal location of the cord within the bony canal, solid or cystic masses in the distal canal or soft tissue of the back extending toward the canal, patulous distal thecal sac, and thick filum.
(13) Repair usually consisted of incision of the web and construction of a patulous gastric outlet.
(14) The diagnosis of a patulous Eustachian tube relies mainly upon the history, examination and a clinical awareness of the condition.
(15) Reports on the effectiveness of myringotomy and tube for treatment of symptoms of the patulous eustachian tube are discouraging, even though there are no large series substantiating its ineffectiveness.
(16) We could not observe more patulous tubes in patients with sudden hearing loss compared to a control group with healthy ears.
(17) The anatomic defects which have been described with prolapse include a defect in the pelvic floor with diastasis of the levatores ani, loss of the normal horizontal position of the rectum, an abnormally deep cul-de-sac of Douglas, a redundant rectosigmoid, and a patulous anal sphincter.
(18) Of the 22 tests, one indicated a patulous eustachian tube (ET) and 20 suggested a semipatulous ET.
(19) Two-hundred and seventy pregnant women (540 ears) were examined for patulous Eustachian tubes.
(20) The concept of somatosounds (tinnitus arising from outside the auditory pathway) is presented, and the management of some conditions, including patulous Eustachian tube and palatal myoclonus, is discussed.
Spread
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Spread
(v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
(v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
(v. t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
(v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
(v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
(v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
(v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
(v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
(v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
(v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.
(v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
(n.) Extent; compass.
(n.) Expansion of parts.
(n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
(n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
(n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
(n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
() imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(3) The tilt was reproduced with a typical spread of about 10 degrees.
(4) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(6) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(7) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(8) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(9) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.
(10) Prognoses differ according to the histological type of carcinoma, but therapeutic results are also influenced by osseous involvement or by spread to the lymph nodes.
(11) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
(12) The type I cells are squamous and give off attenuated sheets of cytoplasm which spread widely over the septal surface; these sheets contain few organelles.
(13) Histologically, all 17 lesions were squamous cell carcinomas; 10 lesions being mucosal carcinomas, the remaining 7 lesions mucosal carcinomas spreading beyond the epithelial layer.
(14) Previous studies have shown that immunosuppressive therapy permits the growth and spread of inadvertently transplanted malignant cells in man, and, in addition, is associated with a 5 to 6% incidence of de novo cancers in organ homograft recipients who were apparently free of cancer before and at the time of transplantation.
(15) Field sizes varied from 3 X 4 to 3 X 12 cm depending on lesion spreading.
(16) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
(17) The average length of spreading of the whole type was 14.5 mm, and the average length of spreading of the basal type, 19.6 mm.
(18) If mammography becomes a wide spread screening method for early detection of breast cancer, the number of non-true interval cancers could be a feed back on the effectiveness of the screening.
(19) The present studies examined the effect of cytosolic protons on electrotonic spread and conduction velocity in cardiac Purkinje fibers.
(20) The most effective method of combined therapy of locally spread rhinopharyngeal cancer was polychemotherapy (bleomycetin, methotrexate, vinblastine, and cyclophosphamide) before irradiation with subsequent maintenance cyclophosphamide chemotherapy once in 4 weeks for 3-6 months.