(1) The subcortical OKN increased markedly when the slow phase of OHN and the compensatory eye movement resulting from the pendular rotation were in the same direction.
(2) It is a pendular nystagmus with two distinct components: a conjugate torsional component and a disjunctive vertical component.
(4) Its effects on the vestibulo-ocular system were determined by electronystagmography performed before and immediately after injecting lidocaine: smooth pendular stimulus tracking was unaffected; spontaneous and positional nystagmus tended to be suppressed; directional preponderance was reduced or reversed; and the difference between the nystagmus responses in the two directions during the pendular rotation chair test was also reduced or reversed.
(5) It could be shown that the compensation of the pendular chair by the means of the steering wheel was symmetric in healthy persons in spite of the presence of spontaneous nystagmus.
(6) The importance of finding this combination of elliptical pendular and upbeat nystagmus is that it is not described in any other childhood neurodegenerative states and, in combination with supportive clinical history and magnetic resonance imaging, may be so characteristic of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease that a strong presumptive diagnosis can be made.
(7) It is difficult to distinguish visually from either pendular or jerk nystagmus without eye movement recordings.
(8) Pendular nystagmus with a duration of several seconds and amplitude of 5 to 15 degrees appeared when she changed her fixation or the point of fixation disappeared.
(9) The inhibitory effect of calcium antagonists such as nifedipine and verapamil on the pendular movements of the rabbit isolated ileum was investigated.
(10) Pendular nystagmus occurring during binocualr fixation and pursuit of near objects is true convergence-evoked nystagmus.
(11) The dissociated, pendular nystagmus consists of high-frequency oscillations that may be disconjugate, conjugate, or purely uniocular.
(12) A 14-year-old boy with congenital seesaw and horizontal pendular nystagmus associated with decreased visual acuity, high myopia, esotropia, and normal peripheral visual fields is reported.
(13) We have investigated the effect of high doses of the anticholinergic drug trihexyphenidyl in four patients with palatal myoclonus and in four patients with acquired pendular nystagmus.
(14) There was pendular nystagmus with a normal caloric response.
(15) Unlike most forms of classic oculocutaneous albinism, however, there was good visual acuity and no pendular nystagmus.
(16) The "petite écuriture" has an average amplitude of 3.5 degrees during the high pendular acceleration (15-18 degrees sec2).
(17) Damped pendular rotation nystagmus was studied in squirrel monkeys before and after otolith end organ ablation (two-stage operations).
(18) From 1961 to 1970 82 patients with recurrent carcinoma of the uterine cervix were treated by Co60 biaxial pendular rotation therapy.
(19) In this paper we show the effect of gentamicin upon the VOR and ViVOR gain and phase in pendular and impulse rotatory tests.
(20) These movements of the weaker eyes were clinically observed by Ohm (1958) and were termed pendular flutter to distinguish them from nystagmus.
Pendulum
Definition:
(n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
(2) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
(3) It is improbable that the platform-pendulum controversy is due to differences in the amount of PS deprivation or the other sleep parameters measured here.
(4) The dynamic shear moduli of human dentin and enamel were measured using a torsion pendulum over a temperature range from 23 to 150 degrees C. For dentin, the shear modulus slightly increased for temperatures near 50 to 100 degrees C, which was caused by a loss of free water.
(5) Abnormal records of the curves were obtained in 78% of cases in the typical pendulum test and in 96% of cases in the smooth following test in which the movements of a light spot were followed using a gonioscope.
(6) The pendulum of arguments and popular operations swings back and forth, anchored to the problem of tendon healing and adhesions.
(7) Phase-locking was evaluated in three experiments using an interlimb coordination paradigm in which a person oscillates hand-held pendulums.
(8) - Biaxial telecobalt pendulum irradiation followed postsurgically, the focal dose being 7,000 rd.
(9) But TUC chief Brendan Barber blamed bankers and previous Tory governments for the economic mess: "This recession is not bad luck or an inevitable swing of the pendulum.
(10) The possibilities of variation in skip pendulum irradiation are examined, a schedule facilitates the choice of field breadth and pendulum angle.
(11) A technique using pendulum-arc rotation is presented for electron-beam treatment of generalized superficial malignancies.
(12) The observable myogenic movements are pendulum movements, ;tone rings' and ;tone waves'; the last of these can be weakly propulsive.
(13) The animals were lightly anesthetized and subjected to occipital trauma with a pendulum impactor.
(14) The therapy of testis tumors is multimodal, using lymphadenectomy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, but the pendulum has swung so that chemotherapy has assumed the vital role in management.
(15) The US is finally giving up its old approach of telling the continent what to do.” The political pendulum has already swung in the latter.
(16) It is the age-old story of counter-revolution: not the restoration of the monarchy kind, but the intellectual kind, as the pendulum of ideas in development thinking swings back from the structuralism of the 1970s left towards the new right of the 1980s.
(17) Skip pendulum irradiation should gain importance, too, for the bremsstrahlung from a linear accelerator.
(18) Andrew Hall, chief executive of the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance exam board, has said A-levels need to be reliable "but the pendulum has swung too far that way, so there's a danger that they are too predictable".
(19) Up to now, the studies have used tests that were too complex in their interpretation (pendulum test) and they have been limited to a global appreciation of eye-tacking.
(20) The determination of the dose to the patient during excentric pendulum irradiation of the thoracic wall is described.