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  • adjective Characteristic of Italian anatomist Luigi Rolando

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Examples

  • In the new study, researchers decided to look at the most common type of epilepsy in children, known as Rolandic epilepsy.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Rolandic fury, this wit which slashed down all things, using epigram as its weapon, intoxicated Marie and amused the circle around them, as the sight of a bull goaded with banderols amuses the company in a Spanish circus.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • Down the Gloria River came timber rafts, ores, harvest of farms whose owners were slowly making Rolandic life serve them, meat and ivory and furs gathered by rangers in the mountains beyond Troll Scarp.

    The Queen of Air and Darkness Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1973

  • Arctica isn't enormous, and it's fertile for Rolandic life.

    The Queen of Air and Darkness Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1973

  • It must also have crossed the great longitudinal fissure, and penetrated the left Rolandic region, just above its centre, probably involving the precuneate lobule, and a portion of the internal capsular fibres as well as the cortex on the left side.

    Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

  • The evidence recently forthcoming, however, is leading investigators to think that there is no cortical centre for the "motor" or outgoing processes properly so called, and that these Rolandic areas, although called

    The Story of the Mind James Mark Baldwin 1897

  • (_A_) while the centre for musical expression is also in the Rolandic region.

    The Story of the Mind James Mark Baldwin 1897

  • -- Skull injury with extensive destruction of brain-substance around the Rolandic area (Cooke and Laycock).

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Cooke and Laycock 10.116 mention a case of intracranial injury with extensive destruction of brain-substance around the Rolandic area; there was recovery but with loss of the so called muscular sense.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Cooke and Laycock mention a case of intracranial injury with extensive destruction of brain-substance around the Rolandic area; there was recovery but with loss of the so called muscular sense.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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