What's the difference between rotatory and vertiginous?

Rotatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Turning as on an axis; rotary.
  • (a.) Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles.
  • (a.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization.
  • (n.) A rotifer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outgoing from the theory of the rotatory nystagmus based on the rotation test of the human vestibular system the fundamentels are developed for a complete evaluation method of an electronystagmogram including the elimination of artefacts by the authors' own research work in this field.
  • (2) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (3) Ten neurons responded only when a head undergoing rotatory movements was shown.
  • (4) Stimulus-induced nystagmus was combined with OKN, OKAN and per- and post-rotatory nystagmus.
  • (5) The rats often showed single rotatory curves affecting the thoracic and lumbar regions, although cases with multiple curves were also found.
  • (6) Furthermore, it is demonstrated that a thin perforated membrane fitted on the inside of the wall of a glass cylinder filled with water, will detach, with rotatory movements.
  • (7) The absolute stereochemistry of the three active centers was determined to be RRR by optical rotatory dispersion comparisons.
  • (8) In our hospital the rotatory osteotomy according to Weber proved good; in accordance with the findings it can be combined with other procedures.
  • (9) Anterolateral rotatory instability in 31 acutely injured knees and 31 chronically unstable knees was surgically stabilized with a previously unreported method of iliotibial band tenodesis.
  • (10) The cause for this condition, we think, is laxity of the ulnar part of the lateral collateral ligament, which allows a transient rotatory subluxation of the ulnohumeral joint and a secondary dislocation of the radiohumeral joint.
  • (11) With this program the "classical" parameters have been evaluated and the "rotatory diameter measurement" was performed.
  • (12) Its stability was measured by optical rotatory dispersion, differential scanning calorimetry, and trypsin susceptibility of the partially unfolded molecules.
  • (13) Recurrent posterolateral rotatory instability of the elbow is an apparently undescribed clinical condition that is difficult to diagnose.
  • (14) A series of 26 patients undergoing translabyrinthine acoustic neuroma surgery was evaluated pre- and postoperatively using rotatory vestibular testing.
  • (15) All fractures healed uneventfully without rotatory and angulatory malalignment.
  • (16) In this system, embryonic neurons are dissociated from one another and allowed to reaggregate in rotatory culture, where they resume their normal differentiation.
  • (17) This parameter has a smaller error associated with it than do pure translations and may aid the clinician by helping to account for the large variation in rotatory ranges of motion within the population.
  • (18) He also had horizontal-clockwise rotatory nystagmus in primary gaze and ataxic gait.
  • (19) A test for knee posterolateral instability, which is a modification of the standard posterolateral rotatory instability test, is described.
  • (20) There is an almost linear correlation between the rotatory stability and the difference between the respective fourth power of the external and internal diameter or, approximately, to the fourth power of the external diameter for catheters without wire reinforcement.

Vertiginous


Definition:

  • (a.) Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion.
  • (a.) Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Labour’s vertiginous decline in Scotland has shrivelled what used to be the primary unionist party north of the border.
  • (2) We report on the therapeutic effect of a combination of piracetam and dihydroergocristine in 55 vertiginous patients, of both sexes, between 20 and 67 years of age, from different causes (not scheduled for surgery).
  • (3) Vestibular nerve section, however, converts this active lesion to a static peripheral lesion, allowing for brainstem compensation and cessation of optokinetic-induced vertiginous symptoms.
  • (4) Peripheral labyrinthine abnormalities are responsible for the majority of vertiginous symptoms.
  • (5) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
  • (6) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
  • (7) In the acute, vertiginous phase of the disease, the VOR time constant was reduced but was almost normalized 1 year later, both among patients who regained normal caloric side-difference and among those who did not.
  • (8) There is no question that dizziness and vertiginous-like symptoms occur in children.
  • (9) In this group, the 1985 guidelines indicate that only 35% of the patients had significant relief of their vertiginous symptoms and 47% had hearing loss greater than 10 dB postoperatively.
  • (10) The case of a sixty years old man with vague vertiginous feeling, headache and moderate ocular troubles is presented.
  • (11) The test was performed in Ménière's disease (16 cases), other vertiginous disorders (23 cases) and normal subjects (10 cases).
  • (12) Since the vestibulospinal level of vestibular function is frequently neglected in the evaluation of vertiginous patients, we developed a new posture equilibrometer for recording body swaying X (left-right) and Y (fore-aft) components of angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration with its transducer on the head of the subject.
  • (13) The movement of the body's center of gravity was calculated in normal subjects and in vertiginous patients by using a strain gauge platform system and a ditigal computer.
  • (14) Afterwards he drove us into the mountains, taking us along vertiginous dirt roads in his 4x4, to the places where he kept his hives.
  • (15) Berlin: The Land of Cockaigne by Heinrich Mann Mann, brother of Thomas, wrote Berlin in the tradition of the bildungsroman , and the introduction to the 1929 English edition offers fair summary: “Andrew Zumsee rises steadily, jesuitically, through the coarse social strata of bourgeois Berlin, behind the skirts of women, via boudoir wire-pulling, to an hour of vertiginous triumph, or at least an illusion thereof.” Life, as in many of these novels, is speculative: “I don’t know what it is that they call transacting business; but it certainly doesn’t take much time … It’s a lazy man’s Heaven, a perfect land of Cockaigne.” 10.
  • (16) But with land prices rising vertiginously in overcrowded Delhi, officials say foreign investors are lining up to take part.
  • (17) You’re getting sacked in the morning,” also came down, unsparingly, from the most vertiginous part of the Leazes End.
  • (18) It is also true that the stakes couldn’t be more vertiginous for David Cameron.
  • (19) We observed the same results in other vertiginous disorders.
  • (20) These results corresponded with the clinical findings that the degree of Lpi increases prior to vertiginous episodes in Meniere's patients.

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