(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.
Posterior
Definition:
(a.) Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
(a.) Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.
(a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
(a.) On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(2) The 38 control fetuses had normal-appearing posterior fossae.
(3) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(4) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(5) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(6) These cases show that an examination of the whole neuraxis is as important in patients with midline posterior fossa cysts as it is in patients with developmental syringomyelia or Chiari I malformation.
(7) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(8) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(9) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(10) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(11) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(12) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(13) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(14) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(15) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
(16) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(17) The observation that phase reversals did not occur in area 29, together with the low incidence of phasic (rhythmic) theta-on cells, suggests that the posterior cingulate cortex does not independently generate type 2 theta.
(18) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(19) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(20) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.