What's the difference between process and styloid?

Process


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
  • (n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
  • (n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
  • (n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
  • (n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (3) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
  • (4) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (5) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (6) Each process has been linked to the regulation of cholesterol accretion in the arterial cell.
  • (7) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (8) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (9) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (10) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (11) Sample processing appears effective in avoiding spontaneous oxalogenesis.
  • (12) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
  • (13) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (14) Exudative inflammatory processes predominate in the ulcer floor.
  • (15) An inflammatory process than occurs in the airways that is characterized by an influx of eosinophils and neutrophils into the airway epithelium and bronchial fluids.
  • (16) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
  • (17) In the process, HDL3 became larger and eluted in a position identical to that of HDL2.
  • (18) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (19) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (20) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.

Styloid


Definition:

  • (a.) Styliform; as, the styloid process.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The brace extended from the proximal radius and ulna to the level of the radial styloid and allowed a full range of movement at the radiocarpal joint.
  • (2) If not enough styloid is excised, osteophytic overgrowth will occur; if too much is excised, the carpus will sublux radially.
  • (3) We describe a personal technique for the treatment of scaphoid non-union, consisting of styloidectomy of the radius associated with axial perforation of the scaphoid, emptying of the bone, filling it again by cancellous bone taken from the styloid and securing it with a peg obtained from the cortex of the same styloid.
  • (4) The main features of the operation include identification of the facial nerve in all cases, division of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle and styloid apparatus, and excision of the styloid process.
  • (5) Eleven patients undergoing surgery for elongated styloids or calcified ligaments are reported.
  • (6) Extension of main duct, smooth defect of posterior border of mandibular ramus, posterior displace of styloid process, and filling defect of branch ducts and acini in the pterygomandibular space were seen in deep lobe parotid tumors.
  • (7) At the distal bones of the forearm more changes are seen at the radius than at the ulnar styloid.
  • (8) When compared with normal age- and sex-matched subjects, preoperative bone mineral content was decreased by more than 1 SD in 24 patients 3 cm from the styloid apophysis (distal site) and in 23 patients 8 cm from the styloid apophysis (proximal site).
  • (9) Calcified fibrous tissue or calcified fibrocartilage sometimes contributes to the thickening of enlarged styloid processes.
  • (10) The symptoms resulting from elongated styloid processes and methods of diagnosis and treatment of these processes were described.
  • (11) A total of 300 styloid processes and stylohyoid chains were evaluated and measured radiographically.
  • (12) Soft tissue swelling at the ulnar styloid is classical, but soft tissue swelling also occurs at the PIP and MCP joints.
  • (13) Anatomical variations of the styloid process and its ligaments may be responsible in some patients for vague symptoms referrable to the throat and neck.
  • (14) On the basis of this data and a successful clinical experience, primary repair of displaced ulnar styloid avulsion fractures is advised as a means of stabilizing the radioulnar joint and preventing the disability associated with chronic radioulnar joint instability.
  • (15) Orofacial pain, as well as other neurologic symptoms, can result from the presence of an elongated styloid process.
  • (16) Treatment consists in removing the styloid process by operation.
  • (17) Other isolated and extremely rare causes, such as the anatomic abnormality of an elongated styloid process, cannot be discussed in a presentation of this length, but are included in the bibliography.
  • (18) radiographs of both wrists were taken in 400 normal individuals to study the configuration of the styloid process of the ulna.
  • (19) Eighty styloids measured at post-mortem examination enabled a mean length to be determined as well as a range of normals.
  • (20) The final height of the distal radial styloid averaged 8 mm.

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