What's the difference between subdual and subdural?
Subdual
Definition:
(n.) Act of subduing.
Example Sentences:
(1) This mass passed through the openings into the subarachnoid space and continued into the subdual space.
Subdural
Definition:
(a.) Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(2) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
(3) It is thought that the mechanisms of resorption are: co-mingling with CSF and redistribution in the more acute variety and in instances of subdural hydromas; and thru the healing and reparative process in the chronic type.
(4) We report a case of a 47-year-old man with anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome associated with subdural hematoma.
(5) We report the case of a pediatric patient with a spontaneous spinal subdural hematoma that was not associated with a coagulation abnormality.
(6) In conclusion, CSF spectrophotometry is a simple, fast, and extremely sensitive method, which in our opinion should be used routinely in the diagnosis of suspected subdural haematomas, if lumbar puncture is not contraindicated.
(7) CT findings of 46 patients with operatively confirmed chronic subdural hematomas are reviewed.
(8) The surgical treatment was initiated with percutaneous subdural tapping which was repeated periodically, if indicated, for 2 weeks.
(9) The intracranial haemorrhages include 11 subdural haematomas (four acute, seven chronic) and ive intracerebral haemorrhages, one of which resulted from the rupture of an arterial aneurysm.
(10) Subdural hematomas were evacuated in 41 newborns during the first 4 days after birth.
(11) Ocular injuries were observed in 7 of the 10 cases and when present always included retinal, vitreous, and subdural optic nerve hemorrhages.
(12) Chronic subdural hematomas are especially frequent and readily dealt with surgically in patients over 60 years.
(13) That is why the open abscess treatment will continue to be justified for all cases where cerebral abscesses occur in combination with subdural or epidural empyemas.
(14) Interhemispheric subdural hematoma (ISDH), although not infrequent in children, has been rarely encountered in adults.
(15) The association of an arachnoidal cyst in the middle cranial fossa with a subdural haematoma or intracystic bleeding is emphasised.
(16) The case of a 49-year-old female with a left parietal convexity meningioma associated with an acute subdural hematoma is described.
(17) Postoperative neuroimaging procedures have shown a disturbing incidence of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, unsuspected cerebral atrophy, and subdural hematomas.
(18) On the other hand, neonates and the elderly more readily develop enlarged ventricles, in association with impairment of CSF absorption, or subdural fluid collections.
(19) In a 74-year-old man in whom chronic subdural hematoma was responsible for recurrent attacks of local neurological deficiencies, the diagnosis was established by computerized tomographic (CT) scanning.
(20) A potentially treatable cause was found in 10.7% of all demented patients, the most common being metabolic disorders, meningioma, hydrocephalus, subdural haematoma, and depressive pseudodementia.