What's the difference between rachis and rhachis?

Rachis


Definition:

  • (n.) The spine; the vertebral column.
  • (n.) Same as Rhachis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In May 1983, a thorough workup revealed an incomplete fracture of the first lumbar vertebra and a diffuse demineralization of the rachis and pelvis.
  • (2) Oogonia detach from the short rachis and increase in size from 6 to 60 microns; accumulating hyaline granules, shell granules and glycogen.
  • (3) It is conventional saying that the fetal rachis shows only one ventral concavity.
  • (4) Antho-RFamide (pGlu-Gly-Arg-Phe-amide), a neuropeptide recently isolated from the sea pansy Renilla köllikeri induced sustained (tonic) contractions in the rachis and peduncle of the colony, and in the individual autozooid polyps.
  • (5) Changes in mixed venous oxygen saturation of hemoglobin (SvO2), heart rate (HR), cardiac index, (SI) were measured in 20 patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery (rachis and pelvis bone resections for tumours: mean-lasting 8 hours), to estimate the safety limits during isovolemic hemodilution.
  • (6) One of the most popular was rachi-striene-stovainization, which was introduced by Jonnesco and attempted to replace general anesthesia (general rachianesthesia).
  • (7) After the development of the genital rachis into the ovotestis, spermatogenic cells increase in number and differentiation begins.
  • (8) The authors also made a comparative study of the conventional Milwaukee corset (with broad chin bearing) versus the Milwaukee with hyoid bearing; and finally they illustrate the results obtained by Andriacchi and his associates in selecting the Milwaukee corset for patients with idiopathic scoliosis on the basis of the mathematical model of the rachis.
  • (9) The authors describe the utility of fast and high-resolution multiplanar CT reconstructions in the study of the rachis.
  • (10) Our three observations in spite of their analogy with Kozlowski's type, are distinguished by more discrete lesions of the rachis and pelvis and by their autosomal recessive mode of inheritance.
  • (11) Rachis in the usual ways of the AHF is within its normal characteristics; on the other hand there are modifications in the nervous cases: the total proteins are nearly always increased and the cells augmented with a great predominance of mononuclear cells.
  • (12) Non tuberculous spondylodiscitis of the rachis is an uncommon entity that affects boys and male adults with greater frequency.
  • (13) For this reason we often use in the same time a 99mTc stannous pyrophosphates scintigraphy of rachis.
  • (14) Degeneration rarely occurred before the age of 50 years, affected men twice as frequently as women, and occurred particularly in cases of diffuse Paget's disease, mainly in the femur or the humerus; the rachis was rarely affected.
  • (15) Abnormal feathers, characterized by thinness and increased transparency of the calamus and rachis, and loss of barbs, were induced at a high frequency by inoculating day-old chicks with reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) propagated in chicken-embryo fibroblast (CEF) cultures.
  • (16) We think it should be recommended for major surgery of the rachis.
  • (17) pelvis, femur, rachis, tibia, humerus, and the cancers most frequently involved--prostate, bronchi, kidney, breast and intestine.
  • (18) Wonder the global static of the rachis is little concerned in most of these children.
  • (19) Correct orthopedic therapy for traumas of the cervical rachis requires perfect knowledge of the spatial balance of the fracture focus.
  • (20) This experimental work, realized on a group of 25 monkeys, aims at determining the correct circulatory direction in rachis veins and the importance of the vertebral veinous circulation in the general return circulation.

Rhachis


Definition:

  • (n.) The spine.
  • (n.) The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern.
  • (n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.
  • (n.) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis.
  • (n.) The central cord in the stem of a crinoid.
  • (n.) The median part of the radula of a mollusk.
  • (n.) A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Abnormalities found in mutant feathers included decreased overall size, absence of prelumulae and prefiloplumulae feathers, an abnoramlly small rhachis with a disproportionally small medulla, thickening of the feather-sheath, and increased abundance of pulp cells.

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