What's the difference between retroflex and tongue?

Retroflex


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Retroflexed

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bony anomalies encountered in the 'no neck' form of Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) are a wide, short, fused, bifid, retroflexed spinal canal; craniolacunia, cranium bifidum, and acrania.
  • (2) 8 of the 50 had a retroflexed uterus and 2 of those were displacement cases, suggesting that anomaly of position could be a predisposition for ectopia.
  • (3) Each subject, by means of computerized stabilometric platform, has been submitted to the sensitized test with head retroflexed.
  • (4) Most perforations occur at the time of insertion; insertion during the early postpartum period or during the period of lactational amenorrhoea, or in the case of an undiagnosed pregnant uterus or an acutely anteflexed or retroflexed uterus can be the cause.
  • (5) The head is not retroflexed, and the tongue is not supported by an endoscope as in direct laryngoscopy.
  • (6) During a period of 18 months with a history of chronic pelvic pain symptomatology (severe dysmenorrhea, severe dyspareunia, extramenstrual pain) retroverted or retroflexed uterus, and infertility were subjected to laparoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes as well.
  • (7) Prior ultrasound of this area was significantly limited by bowel loops anterior to the retroflexed uterine body and cervix, which were displaced cephalad out of the pelvic inlet and were not seen.
  • (8) This tracing technique labeled, in a Golgi-like manner, the neurons which initiate the fasciculi retroflexes and revealed details of their morphological pattern.
  • (9) This case report presents a full-term pregnancy in a retroflexed uterus.
  • (10) An insufficiently full bladder, a retroflex uterus, echoes caused by the intestine, and obesity made the ultrasonic scanning more difficult.
  • (11) The features of interest are sonorant, syllabic, consonantal, high, back, front, and retroflex.
  • (12) We describe a fetus with hydrocephalus and the cranial and cervical findings of iniencephaly (enlarged foramen magnum, fusion of the upper cervical vertebrae, and a retroflexed, webbed neck) who had an unusual palatal abnormality ("palatal anteversion").
  • (13) Finally, the retroflexed uterine position does not appear to increase the risk of abnormal outcomes.
  • (14) Two cases of retroflexed holoprosencephaly are presented.
  • (15) A tortuous retroflexed innominate artery can simulate a right apical mass.
  • (16) Secondary dysmenorrhea means pathological organic alterations of the genital tract: uterus myomatosus, endometrial polyps, endometriosis, and retroflexed uterus.
  • (17) The fetus remained fixed in the same position with the head retroflexed during each consecutive exam.
  • (18) Examination revealed a retroflexed uterus with the cervical opening pointing toward the anterior abdominal wall.
  • (19) The GIF-P2-prototype with four-way tip control and ability to retroflex 180 degree up, 60 degree down, and 100 degree right and left was superior to GIF-P1 and CF-P-prototype for visualization of the entire esophagus, stomach, duodenal bulb, and postbulbar area in patients less than 10 years old.
  • (20) The common phenotypic features of this syndrome include growth failure and mental or developmental retardation, hypotonia, persistent lanugo, distorted head, congenital glaucoma, short and upturned nose, prominent maxilla, micrognathia, short, webbed neck, short limbs, retroflexed third and fourth toes, cutaneous syndactyly of the second, third and fourth toes, and elevated galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase activity in the red blood cells.

Tongue


Definition:

  • (n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
  • (n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.
  • (n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
  • (n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
  • (n.) A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
  • (n.) Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
  • (n.) A people having a distinct language.
  • (n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
  • (n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
  • (n.) The lingua of an insect.
  • (n.) Any small sole.
  • (n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
  • (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
  • (n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
  • (n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
  • (n.) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
  • (n.) The clapper of a bell.
  • (n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
  • (n.) Same as Reed, n., 5.
  • (v. t.) To speak; to utter.
  • (v. t.) To chide; to scold.
  • (v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
  • (v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
  • (v. i.) To talk; to prate.
  • (v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stabilized mandible allowed suspension of the tongue.
  • (2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
  • (3) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
  • (4) The concentration dependences of response of frog tongue to D-fructose, D-glucose, and sucrose were almost the same, D-galactose, however, elicited a much larger response in comparison with the other sugars in the whole range of concentrations examined.
  • (5) A case of osteosarcoma of the tongue is reported, with microscopic findings.
  • (6) In the QHCl-sucrose condition components separated by the tongue's midline and those spatially mixed produced equal amounts of bitterness suppression.
  • (7) S. sanguis also adhered to human tongues better than the serum-requiring diphtheroid.
  • (8) On the basis of these studies, four of the neonates required a tongue-lip adhesion to stabilize the airway.
  • (9) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
  • (10) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
  • (11) Application of 1 mM BT (pH 6.3) to the human tongue statistically potentiated the taste of 0.2 M NaCl and 0.2 M LiCl by 33.5% and 12.5% respectively.
  • (12) The first manifestation was often extranodular (9 patients tonsil, 8 parotid gland, 8 base of tongue, 7 nasopharynx).
  • (13) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
  • (14) We report the case of an 8-month-old female with an unusual duplication cyst in the anterior two-thirds of the tongue.
  • (15) It represents the seventh case to occur in the base of tongue and the second to be associated with pregnancy.
  • (16) CR-ir was also observed in nerve fibers surrounding neuronal cell bodies in autonomic ganglia, and in nerve endings in the lip, tongue, incisal papilla, soft palate, pharynx and epiglottis.
  • (17) We have examined the keratin proteins in normal human oral mucosa from 6 different regions including hard palate, buccal mucosa, tongue, gingiva and floor of the mouth.
  • (18) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
  • (19) Additional documented organ involvement included liver (two of 10), rectal (three of 10), renal (two of 10), gingiva (two of 10), and tongue (one of 10), although invasive biopsies were not performed in a majority of patients.
  • (20) Sheet preparations of the stratum granulosum from the epithelium of the ventral surface of mouse tongue permit examination of cell replacement of this maturation compartment of the tissue.