NOUN
- an irregular ventricle between the third ventricle and the central canal of the spinal cord
How To Use fourth ventricle In A Sentence
- It is defined by hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, cystic dilatation of fourth ventricle and hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus
- While at Queen Square he wrote an MD thesis on the radiology of the aqueduct and fourth ventricle.
- Herophilus, after whom the torcular herophili within the skull is named, and who invented the term calamus scriptorius for certain appearances in the fourth ventricle. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
- There was no definite plane between the tumor and the floor of the fourth ventricle.
- The subarachnoid cavity communicates with the general ventricular cavity of the brain by three openings; one, the foramen of Majendie, is in the middle line at the inferior part of the roof of the fourth ventricle; the other two are at the extremities of the lateral recesses of that ventricle, behind the upper roots of the glossopharyngeal nerves and are known as the foramina of Luschka. IX. Neurology. 4g. The Meninges of the Brain and Medulla Spinalis
- It is defined by hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, cystic dilatation of fourth ventricle and hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus
- The fourth ventricle is between the pons and cerebellum.
- Blockage at the aqueduct is assumed when the lateral and third ventricles are enlarged proximal to the obstruction, and the fourth ventricle is relatively small. Hydrocephalus
- The first strong evidence for a NGF neurotropic effect was obtained from experiments of daily micro-injections of NGF into the floor of the fourth ventricle. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
- Developmentally considered, the fourth ventricle consists of three parts: a superior belonging to the isthmus rhombencephali, an intermediate, to the metencephalon, and an inferior, to the myelencephalon. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon