How To Use vallecula In A Sentence
- External to the vascular bundles is another set of canals, the vallecular canals or cortical canals.
- An alternative technique, as used in adults, is to insert the tip of the blade into the vallecula at the base of the epiglottis (further than shown in the diagram), which lifts the epiglottis to reveal the vocal cords beneath.
- Examination of the oropharynx revealed a large midline mass extending along the posterior pharyngeal wall from the level of soft palate to vallecula.
- The vallecular cyst had a narrow base.
- Proceed with the curved blade into the vallecula or straight over the epiglottis with the straight blade.
- She was noted to have a left-sided vallecular cyst.
- Eight different bones from Australian species of fish and a king prawn shell were selected and each was positioned individually in the tonsil, vallecula and piriform fossa.
- Lateral fluoroscopic projection showing contrast material in the valleculas, pyriform sinuses, laryngeal vestibule, and aspiration into the upper trachea
- The gross impression was of laryngeal vallecular cyst of saccular type.
- The bolus passes from the vallecula into the piriform sinuses, before entering the esophagus.