What's the difference between sacral and urosacral?
Sacral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of spondylolisthesis was found to be 5.1%, lumbarization 6.0%, sacralization 5.5% and low intercrestal line 56.9%.
(2) By contrast, patients with urological symptoms had a significantly increased prevalence of spina bifida occulta at S1 and S2 and a higher level of opening of posterior sacral arcs.
(3) A case of epidermoid tumor of the sacral area with S3 root irritation resulting in bladder dysfunction is presented and its possible relationship to spinal puncture is discussed.
(4) Neurogenic deficits of sacral spinal cord function may be responsible for abnormalities in rectal motor and sensory function.
(5) Eighty-eight patients with 188 sacral fractures were examined with computed tomography (CT) and conventional radiography.
(6) Bone X-rays and CT-scans confirmed the diagnosis of sacral tumor, and radical excision was performed via combined abdominal and sacral approach.
(7) In the child born with sacral agenesis, the management of arthrogrypotic-like deformities, spinal and multisystem abnormalities poses several problems to the orthopedist.
(8) When patients had recovered from the spinal shock phase, emptying of the bladder supplemented by alpha-adrenergic blocking preparations and clean intermittent catheterization were instituted in the patients with supra-sacral lesions.
(9) Rectal wall reconstruction was performed using gracilis muscle transfer, and sacral reconstruction was performed by gluteus maximus muscle island transfer.
(10) The cathetertips are selectively introduced from both sides either into a lateral sacral vein, an internal iliac vein or into a lumbar ascending vein.
(11) Explants of a human sacral chordoma were successfully maintained on collagen-coated coverslips, gelfoam sponge matrices, and Millipore filter platforms for up to 30 days.
(12) These data indicate that a significant component of the sacral spinal cord dynorphin terminal immunoreactivity derives from primary afferent fibers.
(13) We suggest that incomplete development of the bones of the dorsal neural arches of the upper sacrum may be a marker of incomplete neurogenesis of the sacral nerves.
(14) Of the 198 live fetuses, 5 rats had tail defect and sacral anomalies.
(15) Five male cadavers were used to evaluate anatomically structures at risk using sacral pedicle screw fixation.
(16) Sacral nerve root stimulation caused an after-contraction in both rectum and sphincter.
(17) Intracellular recording was made from motoneurones in lower sacral (S2 and S3) segments of the spinal cord in cats, to analyse the neuronal organization of the inhibition evoked in these motoneurones from contralateral afferents.
(18) Lumbosacral nerve plexus injuries occurred in patients with fractures through the sacral foramina.
(19) In contrast, 4 weeks after pelvic nerve transection in the cat, galanin was unchanged in the ipsilateral dorsal sacral spinal cord, whereas VIP is known to decrease markedly and substance P to remain unchanged.
(20) Differences were found in the origins and extent of CA of the cutaneous branches from the sacral plexus.
Urosacral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to both the caudal and sacral parts of the vertebral column; as, the urosacral vertebrae of birds.