(n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report a 2-year-old Moslem Arab boy with 28 of the 32 originally described features of this syndrome and in addition with hyperelastic joints, hypospadias and scaphocephaly which were not previously described in association with the Kabuki make-up syndrome.
(2) The other congenital deformities included scaphocephaly, somewhat low-set ears, accessory tragi, a high arched palate, and funnel chest.
(3) Coronal craniostenosis seems to be a dominant autosomal character, when scaphocephaly is more often sporadic; for both, an autosomal dominant inheritance is not excluded for some pedigrees.
(4) Eight infants had scaphocephaly with prominent occipital shelving.
(5) Two children from a small Amerindian community presented with profound retardation, initial hypotonia progressing to hypertonia, scaphocephaly, a prominent occiput, poor postnatal head growth, and additional minor anomalies.
(6) Premature fusion of the sagittal and lambdoid suture led to scaphocephaly.
(7) Four illustrative cases of scaphocephaly, all treated with midline linear craniectomy, with uneventful postoperative follow-up periods of more than 4 years, are reported.
(8) We describe two female siblings with similar clinical features consisting of hydrocephalus, scaphocephaly, hypotonia, mongoloid eye slant, blepharophimosis, micrognathia, supernumerary mouth frenula and mental retardation.
(9) Finally, the authors certify the frequency and the seriousness of ocular repercussion, even in so called benign types of cranio-stenoses, such as plagiocephaly, trigonocephaly, and scaphocephaly.
(10) The authors report, concerning 115 cas of scaphocephaly, the clinical (spheno., lepto., bathmo., clino., the kinds without dolichocephaly) radiological characteristics (temporal curve without dolichocephaly), orbito-sphenoidal obliquity regressing after treatment).
(11) Besides, two patients with scaphocephaly and one with plagiocephaly showed low perfusion area in unilateral cerebral hemisphere.
(12) Postoperatively, only 14.5% had minor clinical signs, which were mostly not in relation to the former scaphocephaly.
(13) A series of 50 consecutive patients with scaphocephaly treated by a new operation are reported, and the results are reviewed in detail.
(14) We report the clinical features and neurosurgical management of a 9-month-old girl with cranioectodermal dysplasia and scaphocephaly.
(15) The clinical manifestations of MPS are frequently dwarfism, scaphocephaly, grotesque facial features with snub nose, hypertelorism, macroglossia and dental anomalies.
(16) In addition to the effect on the neurocranium, the extended craniectomies add to normalization of the base of the skull (in contrast to the natural history of scaphocephaly).
(17) A technique for the correction of scaphocephaly is described.
(18) On the cranial deformities, 7 cases of scaphocephaly, 4 cases of oxycephaly and 3 cases of acrocephaly were diagnosed.
(19) To the median sagittal craniectomy, one can add retrocoronal, pre lambdoid or metopic craniectomies according to the type of scaphocephaly.
(20) This article reports a retrospective quantitative (cephalic index) evaluation of the effect that two different operations for treatment of scaphocephaly secondary to sagittal synostosis have on cranial shape.
Skull
Definition:
(n.) A school, company, or shoal.
(n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
(n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
(n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.
(n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(3) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
(4) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(5) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(6) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
(7) The inner table of the skull over the lesion was eroded.
(8) A three-dimensional anatomic model of a human skull was produced with birefringent materials for photoelastic analysis.
(9) The effects on skull growth of plating the coronal suture and frontal bone were studied in New Zealand White rabbits.
(10) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(11) Tension pneumocephalus was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan and plain skull X-ray.
(12) After removal from the skull, the brains were processed for histopathological evaluation of ischemic neuronal damage by light microscopy and morphometry.
(13) The author describes three systems for (1) the treatment of mandibular fractures; (2) the treatment of midface fractures, for reconstructive surgery of the facial skeleton and the skull, and for orthognathic surgery; and (3) the reconstruction of mandibular defects including condyle replacement.
(14) To avoid the complications attributable to the cervical spine, we recommend roentgenographic examination in all neurofibromatosis patients who are about to have general anesthesia or skull traction for treatment of scoliosis.
(15) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(16) Lateral skull X-ray images are routinely used in cephalometric analysis to provide quantitative measurements useful to clinical orthodontists.
(17) The absence of a visible fracture on plain skull radiographs does not exclude a fracture, and those patients with clinical signs of a fracture should be treated appropriately and further investigations performed.
(18) In our study, 17 fractures were detected in 594 patients who had skull radiography because of trauma to the head.
(19) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
(20) A new combination of techniques for resection of hemangiopericytoma of the skull base is described.