What's the difference between posterior and synechia?
Posterior
Definition:
(a.) Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
(a.) Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.
(a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
(a.) On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(2) The 38 control fetuses had normal-appearing posterior fossae.
(3) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(4) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(5) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(6) These cases show that an examination of the whole neuraxis is as important in patients with midline posterior fossa cysts as it is in patients with developmental syringomyelia or Chiari I malformation.
(7) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(8) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(9) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(10) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(11) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(12) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(13) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(14) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(15) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
(16) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(17) The observation that phase reversals did not occur in area 29, together with the low incidence of phasic (rhythmic) theta-on cells, suggests that the posterior cingulate cortex does not independently generate type 2 theta.
(18) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(19) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(20) 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.
Synechia
Definition:
(n.) A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 20 patients (18.2%), visualization revealed uterine abnormalities, mainly newly added endometrial lesions, i.e., hyperplasia, polyps, endometritis, and synechiae.
(2) Posterior synechiae, pupil deformations, grave uveitis with hypotonia of 4-10 mm Hg are rapidly developing.
(3) No true ependymal defects occurred even in extensive hydrocephalus except at the sites of the ventricular synechiae which sometimes ruptured.
(4) However, when the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve is affected, the ocular disease (ophthalmic zoster), although also usually mild and self-limited, may have severe complications (corneal scarring, glaucoma, iris atrophy, posterior synechiae, scleritis, motor disturbances, optic neuritis, retinitis, anterior segment necrosis, and phthisis bulbi and servere postherpetic neuralgia).
(5) Only limited results were obtained in fertility in cases of muscular or fibrous synechia.
(6) The differences between the 2 eyes were not statistically significant so far as the amount of astigmatism, final visual acuity, and peripheral anterior synechiae were concerned.
(7) Results show that 31.4% of cases in which there was a thickening of the endometrial echopattern correspond to the presence of polyp, myoma, synechia with atrophic endometrium.
(8) CO2-laser caused one laryngeal oedema and synechia of the anterior commisure of the vocal laryngeal cords in one other case.
(9) The most common factors preventing optical examination were opacity of the aqueous humor and posterior synechia.
(10) Corneal endothelial proliferation over the iris was studied on experimental anterior synechiae in rabbits up to 6 months.
(11) Postkeratoplasty glaucoma was also strongly associated with peripheral anterior synechiae formation seen after keratoplasty.
(12) All findings of synechiae were treated hysteroscopically.
(13) Posterior synechiae are prevented by leaving the anterior capsule intact and in apposition with the posterior iris surface, assuring a round, mobile pupil.
(14) Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is one of the most severe hereditary mechano-bullous diseases, characterized by scarring blister formation, nail dystrophy and onycholysis, cutaneous contractures, synechiae, mutilations of the hands and feet and oesophageal stenosis.
(15) Use of this method resulted in 20 of 24 (83%) rabbit eyes maintaining technically successful clear grafts without anterior synechiae or angle-closure glaucoma for up to 3 months postoperatively.
(16) Throughout the entire follow-up (12 weeks) we found less induced posterior synechias in the eyes with hydrophilized lenses than in those with untreated lenses (P = .009).
(17) The authors conclude that the hysterography is exact diagnostic method for confirming the effect of treatment of synechiae in the uterine cavity with suitable intrauterine loops.
(18) The reasons for regrafting were incomplete epithelialization of the donor cornea by the host, poor donor material, and ring synechiae with secondary glaucoma.
(19) Lymphocyte karyotyping of an infant girl with the clinical features of microphthalmia, iridoschisis, goiter, hip joint dysplasia, labium synechia and craniotabes revealed an Xp deletion.
(20) Abnormal associated findings included: cleft palate, hypoplastic low-set ears, bilateral synechiae of the first and second toes, incomplete fusion of both eyelids, and dystrophic nails.