(a.) Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further, the increase in the ramal height was highly correlated with the structural changes characteristic of the neonatal condyle.
(2) Incidence of supernumerary tests was 28%, their distribution being caudal (80%), intercalary (8%), ramal (5%) and anterior 1%; 6% had both caudal and intercalary teats.
(3) The relationship between the masseter muscle and the mandible, including its ramal and body components, was chosen as the model for study in nineteen human fetuses (ages 16 to 36 weeks).
(4) The cleft group differed from the control group in several major respects: (1) Their over-all growth trend showed a more downward or vertical direction; (2) The cranial base angle was more flattened; (3) The maxilla was smaller and was located in a more posterior and upward position; (4) Ramal height was shorter and the gonial angle was more obtuse.
(5) Mandibular growth measurements included overall mandibular length, ramal height, and body height.
(6) The artificial increase of the vertical dimension contributed to a statistically significant increase in the ramal inclination in both groups, though greater in the spring-loaded posterior bite-block group.
(7) Of the 76 patients with a reduced ramal height, 66% had a severe arthritis of the cervical spine and of the 100 patients with severe arthritic changes of the cervical spine, 50% had severe destructive arthritis of the temporomandibular joints.
(8) With a new method, where the perpendicular distance from the palato-occipital line to the mandibular angle was measured, normal values of the distance or of ramal height were found to be above 27.5 mm in women and 33 mm in men.
(9) The differences of measurements between the low angle group and the high angle group of gonial angle were as follows: 1) The ramal height, ramal width, bicondylar width and breadth of second molars in the low angle group were significantly larger than those in the high angle group.
(10) In the same cervical radiographs the arthritic destruction of the temporomandibular joints was measured as diminished ramal height from the mandibular angle to the palato-occipital line.
(11) Data was collected from 27 patients who were treated with various ramal surgical procedures.
(12) The mandibular body was short in contrast to the wide ramus, both resulting from defective resorption of the anterior ramal border.
(13) A significantly diminished ramal height was found in a patient material with RA compared with a normal material.
(14) The translation of the ramal implants, however, was greatly affected by the condylotomy.
(15) Tendon-plane angulation appeared to be related to ramal length and lower face height measured cephalometrically.
(16) Cross-sectional cephalometric data indicated that, although increases in the size of the muscle and mandible were linearly related to increasing age, the ramal portion of the mandible was more closely related to changes in the masseter muscle than to changes in the mandibular body.
(17) Reduced ramal height was found in 76 patients, 69 women and 7 men, and in 33 patients the reduction in height was severe enough to be compatible with a total destruction of the mandibular head.
(18) Similar morphologic changes were observed in the maxilla and the mandible of both groups, indicating that the changes resulted from ramal shortening and alterations in function rather than from loss of a condylar growth center.
(19) • Buses run from Cusco to Ramal, close to Cachora, where guides and pack mules can easily be hired Ani, Turkey Facebook Twitter Pinterest The ruined church of Saint Gregory in Ani.
(20) Curves of absolute and incremental growth for total anterior face height, upper anterior face height, lower anterior face height, posterior face height, and ramal length were analyzed statistically and graphically.
Ramus
Definition:
(n.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(2) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
(3) In one horse, the superior aspect of the right ascending ramus of the lower jaw below the coronoid process revealed a gunshot wound; the other skeletons showed no evidence of trauma.
(4) Joints are originally created by the author as an imitation of TMJ and mandibular ramus.
(5) The method and the program are illustrated using the leave-one-out method on a sample of N = 12 male rhesus monkeys whose mandibular ramus height was measured five times at yearly intervals.
(6) The mandibular ramus was short in length and the mandibular condyle had not developed on the right.
(7) Twenty-three adult female rhesus monkeys underwent advancement of the mandible by the sagittal split ramus osteotomy.
(8) The present study, however, qualitatively evaluates the unsharpness of redundant shadows of the mandibular ramus, especially with reference to the effects of first-slit width.
(9) The healing rate was similar at different sites except for the ramus where healing appeared to be quicker.
(10) Myxofibroma developing in the mandibular ramus region is rare, and there has been only one case reported so far in Japan.
(11) For pinning subcondylar fractures, a guide groove cut on the lateral surface of the mandibular ramus is a useful method of directing a Kirschner wire into the correct position.
(12) 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.
(13) The exposure and operative management comprised a latero-facial approach combined with multiple exposure osteotomies of the ascending mandibular ramus, orbitozygomatic region and a frontosphenotemporal craniotomy.
(14) A the caudal edge of the articular process, the ramus divides into medial and lateral branches, and the medial branch supplies the L5--S1 articulation.
(15) Deep notch cases had more retrusive mandibles with a shorter corpus, smaller ramus height, and a greater gonial angle than did shallow notch cases.
(16) The length of the mandibular ramus was measured in lateral radiographs of all mandibles.
(17) X-ray examination showed excellent union between the inverted segment and the rest of ramus and satisfactory appearance.
(18) We describe five cases of radiographically proven stress fracture of the pubic ramus in serious runners, three of whom were elite female marathoners.
(19) The material consisted of presurgical and 1-year postsurgical profile cephalograms of 52 adult orthognathic surgery patients (40 females and 12 males) who initially had mandibular prognathism and had undergone bilateral vertical ramus osteotomy through an extraoral incision in the retroangular area.
(20) In anaesthetised cats the response of the soma dendritic region of sympathetic preganglionic neurones (SPN) recorded intracellularly in T3 spinal segment was studied following excitation of third thoracic white ramus and following orthodromic inputs.