(n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
(n.) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
(n.) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
(n.) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
(n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
(n.) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(2) The purpose of this paper is to know how to correct the maldirection of the acetabulum.
(3) Metastatic involvement of the pelvis, and in particular the acetabulum, is a common finding among patients with metastatic osseous disease.
(4) Forty metal femoral cups were matched with a cemented acetabulum, while with 46 the acetabular implant was cementless.
(5) Because of destructive wear of the acetabulum, this eventually required revision total hip arthroplasty 12 years after the original surgery.
(6) This paper describes a simple linear intertrochanteric osteotomy which aims to centre the femoral head correctly in the acetabulum.
(7) The results are reported of 44 consecutive Chiari innominate osteotomies performed on 39 adult patients aged between 18 and 55 years for symptoms arising from disproportion between the acetabulum and the femoral head.
(8) The acetabulum must be totally reconstructed and relocated as near as possible to its original orientation.
(9) We have used the technique in more than 500 patients with injuries to the skull, spine, acetabulum, sternoclavicular joint, shoulder, knee, and calcaneus and are able to demonstrate the benefit of special investigation protocols.
(10) A radiolucent line was present in the acetabulum in 40.6% of cases; cortical hypertrophy at the tip of the stem was present in 48.8% of cases.
(11) With reference to cartilage, the lesions of Paget's coxopathies presented several specific characteristics compared with those of common arthrosis : (1) the presence of particularly numerous cupshaped defects on the remaining cartilage; (2) a very basophilic, intra- and extra-cytoplasmic substance impregnated the chondroplasts of the bottom layer, nine times out of twenty-six, an anomaly not observed in cases of arthrosis; (3) pseudo-angiomatous vascular outgrowths from the bone, flush with the articular surface of the acetabulum are a source of bleeding during surgery.
(12) The frequency of radiological demarcation of the cement-bone junction in the acetabulum after total hip replacement has been examined in 141 Charnley low-friction arthroplasties followed for an average of 10.1 years.
(13) The bolt penetrated deeply into the pelvis, through the acetabulum, the joint cavity and the head of the femur leading to fixation of the hip.
(14) The uterus is short, convoluted between the anterior testis and the acetabulum, containing 0-6 eggs.
(15) This report deals with findings related to the acetabulum.
(16) In twelve such patients we did an extensive resection of the proximal part of the femur, down to below the lesser trochanter, and constructed a capsular flap across the acetabulum.
(17) The acetabulum fractures more frequently showed difficult forms than otherwise reported.
(18) The post-operative natural change observed by radiography and scintigraphy at the site of the roof of acetabulum was statistically significant (p less than 0.01) by the chi-square test.
(19) Radiographs often show cystic radiolucent defects in the acetabulum and femoral head, but the joint space remains preserved until late.
(20) This bone disease is defined by a rapid chondrolysis with total obliteration of the joint space in the superolateral segment of the joint in an average period of one year, followed by rapid bone destruction of the femoral head and the roof of the acetabulum.
Articulation
Definition:
(n.) A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.
(n.) The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.
(n.) One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize.
(n.) One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc.
(n.) The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.
(n.) The state of being jointed; connection of parts.
(n.) The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.
(n.) A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(2) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(3) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(4) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(5) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
(6) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.
(7) Articulation tests for sound fields simulated with a single reflection of delay time delta t1 after the direct sound were conducted changing the horizontal incident angle xi of the reflection.
(8) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(9) During walking, all components of sacroiliac articulation and the symphysis pubis are apparently subjected to sudden changes in stress.
(10) An artificial joint that articulates with full fluid film lubrication could greatly reduce wear and frictional torque and hence reduce the incidence of loosening and inflammatory tissue reaction.
(11) The articulation of these two subsystems is brought about in the process of diagnosis.
(12) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
(13) Each clinician completed a standard articulation inventory based on a video-tape presentation and then rated the child's articulation on a nine-point scale.
(14) The results of this study show that myofunctional therapy is highly instrumental also in phoniatrics as a special form of treatment for disorders of articulation.
(15) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
(16) In the region of sacroiliac articulation are the highest subchondral densities, both at the cranial and caudal edges, whereas the central part of the two auricular surfaces is less heavily mineralized.
(17) Two reading passages, one with nasal consonants and one without, were tape-recorded for 72 subjects: 34 selected as having precise articulation and 38 selected as having imprecise articulation.
(18) But Pussy Riot were the first, perhaps because they had aimed and articulated their protest so well.
(19) "What we're disappointed about is government hasn't held on to articulating clearly the links and opportunities of care for the environment and economic success and development."
(20) Where knowledge is insufficient to permit articulation of absolute standards, guidelines for its clinical use are presented.