What's the difference between unilateral and uniliteral?
Unilateral
Definition:
(a.) Being on one side only; affecting but one side; one-sided.
(a.) Pertaining to one side; one-sided; as, a unilateral raceme, in which the flowers grow only on one side of a common axis, or are all turned to one side.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(2) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
(3) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(4) Unilateral VNAB lesions induced similar alterations but these were restricted to the ipsilateral PVN and median eminence.
(5) The relative contributions of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression to the increase in constitutively expressed cellular proteins were examined in mouse kidneys undergoing compensatory growth following unilateral nephrectomy (UNI-NX).
(6) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(7) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
(8) The H reflex response was found in the anterior tibialis muscle, at least unilaterally if not bilaterally, in eight of nine subjects with Huntington disease and in five of eight persons at risk.
(9) One month after unilateral transection of the fimbria-fornix an almost complete lack of cholinergic fibers persists in all layers of the dorsal hippocampus and fascia dentata ipsilateral to the lesion when compared to the contralateral hippocampus or to unlesioned control rats.
(10) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
(11) The contra-indications for them are: 1. a better visual acuity with spectacles than with contact lenses, 2. advanced cases (4th degree of Amsler) whose fitting is impossible, 3. unilateral keratoconus, 4. associated diseases such as trachomatous pannus, allergic kerato-conjunctivitis.
(12) A diagnosis of unilateral tuberculosis of the conjunctiva was established in a 75-year-old female patient eight years after the first manifestations of disease.
(13) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
(14) Best results are obtained with respectively unilateral changes of the adrenals or with steroid producing tumors.
(15) Contralateral turning behaviour following unilateral intranigral injection of a large series of GABA analogues was investigated.
(16) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
(17) In a third group, unilateral hypogastric nerve transection prior to injection of HRP-WGA into the vaginocervical walls resulted in a significant reduction in DRG cells labeled at T13, L1, L2, L6 and S1.
(18) The unilateral application of 0.1% bunazosin significantly lowered the IOP in the treated eye, whereas it caused no significant change in the contralateral eye, suggesting that the effect of bunazosin is due mainly to a direct and local action and is not systemic.
(19) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
(20) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.
Uniliteral
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of one letter only; as, a uniliteral word or sign.