(n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.
Example Sentences:
(1) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
(2) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(3) The morphology of the musculus uvulae was studied utilizing detailed gross anatomical dissection and histological sectioning of the soft palate in seven adult human cadavers.
(4) Therefore, 90 patients with documented obstructive sleep apnea were evaluated by cephalometric technique, with special attention paid to the size and position of the soft palate and uvula, volume and position of the tongue, mandibulo-maxillary relationship, hyoid position, and size of the pharyngeal airway space.
(5) The projection to the uvula is organized according to the pattern determined previously for pontine projections to other parts of the cerebellum.
(6) It has been determined that submucous cleft palate can occur even when a peroral examination shows an intact uvula.
(7) The responses of Purkinje cells and presumed mossy fibers to natural stimulation of the horizontal semicircular canals were recorded in the nodulus and uvula of rabbit vestibulocerebellum.
(8) Electrical stimulation of the flocculus or uvula evoked the early and late climbing fiber responses in the nodulus.
(9) With regard to musculus uvulae, small muscular bundles arise from the raphe to embrace the muscle near its crest.
(10) Operative damage to the sphincter apparatus below the uvula vesicae is the most serious complication of prostatic surgery.
(11) As to the climbing fiber projection, it is revealed that there are six longitudinal parasagittal zone extending throughout the dorsal and ventral uvula.
(12) Thus, the uvula is a highly sophisticated structure, capable of producing a large quantity of fluid saliva that can be excreted in a short time.
(13) From a distinctly separate region of the caudal medial accessory nucleus (as well as the principal nucleus), axons project to the uvula.
(14) During the same time the lesions of KS on the gingiva, uvula and the body as well as the face disappeared.
(15) In order to determine the frequency of association between bifid uvula and submucous clefting, a total ascertainment of children with bifid uvula from a suburban pediatric practice was examined nasopharyngoscopically.
(16) A study of velopharyngeal status after partial excision of musculus uvulae, as in total uvulectomy, has been carried out in 15 adults with normally formed soft palates.
(17) For example, in the medial nucleus the sites of origin of fibers to the flocculus and uvula are different.
(18) Carcinoma of the soft palate and uvula is a rare form of oropharyngeal neoplasm with incidence ranging from 5% to 12% of all oropharyngeal carcinomas.
(19) The proband, whose mother and brother had facial clefting, showed inconspicuous abnormalities of the lower lip and a bifid uvula.
(20) Most of the narrowings were located at the level of oropharynx, which was correspondent to the level of the soft palate and the uvula.
Uvular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a uvula.
Example Sentences:
(1) A patient with uvular cancer presented with lower limb weakness and paresthesiae, headache, neck stiffness and multiple cranial palsies.
(2) The nystagmus produced by uvular and nodular stimulation shows a shorter latency and a more rapid slow phase eye velocity buildup.
(3) Two patients are discussed in whom obstructive sleep apnea was precipitated by uvular prolapse into the larynx and successfully treated by uvulopalatopharyngoplasty.
(4) Uvular tissue was removed surgically at our clinic for histopathological examination of the excised tissues.
(5) In addition, an occasional muscular loop may arise from the bony palate, arch downwards, and then recur into the uvular muscle.
(6) Two of the most common substitutions were the uvular trill and L. The first was satirically described in a novel by Christian Weise (1673), while Rosinus Lentilius (1698), a physician, dealt with the L-substitution in a more scholarly but no less humorous manner.
(7) We present a case of a 21-year-old man who presented with complaints of throat discomfort, altered voice, and tachypnea secondary to acute uvular edema.
(8) This case might be the first reported one of preeclampsia presenting as dysphonia and of uvular edema in association with preeclampsia.
(9) Unilateral tonsillar enlargement was usually present, and uvular deviation was noted in 10 of 29 patients.
(10) Prevalence of some form of uvular cleft was observed among 16 (2.26%) of the children while full length uvular cleft was found in only two (0.3%) of the children.
(11) We report a case of uvular edema secondary to food allergy, treated successfully with steroids.
(12) Uvular tissue from control patients undergoing uvulopalatopharyngoplasty for obstructive sleep apnea contained significantly fewer mast cells per high power field.
(13) The attendant roll-up of the uvula toward the nasal side induced by the anesthesia was regarded as the action of the uvular muscle without the counterbalance of levator action.
(14) During FST, the bulge of the uvular ridge is clearly seen on the flat or concave nasal surface of the velum.
(15) Proximal vagal lesions are part of a cranial neuropathy complex and have associated oropharyngeal signs and symptoms (e.g., abnormal gag reflex, uvular deviation).
(16) A history of two or more siblings at home or a family member with a recent streptococcal infection and the presence of irritability, a reddened throat or palate or uvular edema were each associated with GABHS URI.
(17) Labelling in the trigeminal nuclei in both mutants and normals was found only in cases in which the ansoparamedian or uvular lobules were included in the injection site, indicating that the projection domains of mossy fiber afferent systems retain their normal boundaries in the mutants despite a lack of normal synaptic partners.
(18) The latter showed a different composition in anterior and uvular segments, without significant differences between male and female animals, but with slight changes possibly due to age.
(19) In the 3 cats with only uvular lesion, the initial slow phase velocity and the time constant of OKAN were unchanged.