Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(anatomy, medicine, surgery) Of or pertaining to a ventricle and a cistern, usually one of the cerebral ventricles and one of the subarachnoid cisterns (such as the fourth ventricle and the cisterna magna), regarding pathways of cerebrospinal fluid flow..
ventriculocisternal shunts
ventriculocisternal drainage
Arne Torkildsen was a pioneering Norwegian neurosurgeon who introduced the ventriculocisternal shunt, the first clinically successful shunt for CSF diversion in hydrocephalus. The procedure, usually referred to as ventriculocisternostomy (VCS), Torkildsen's operation, or Torkildsen's shunt, became internationally recognized as an efficient operation for the treatment of noncommunicating hydrocephalus. The operation gained widespread use in the 1940s and 1950s before the introduction of extracranial shunts. In this paper, the authors look more closely at Torkildsen's development of the VCS and examine how this surgical approach differed from other procedures for treating hydrocephalus before World War II.
Use ventriculocisternal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ventriculocisternal means (anatomy, medicine, surgery) Of or pertaining to a ventricle and a cistern, usually one of the cerebral ventricles and one of the subarachnoid cisterns (such as the fourth ventricle and the cisterna magna), regarding pathways of cerebrospinal fluid flow..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
ventriculocisternal shunts
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.