(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.
Sepia
Definition:
(n.) The common European cuttlefish.
(n.) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.
(n.) A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.
(a.) Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assumption is made that, for eumelanins, there is only one nitrogen atom per monomeric unit, and thus, the empirical formula for the average monomeric Sepia melanin backbone chromophore was determined.
(2) In an earlier communication, we have presented the results of our study on in vitro interaction of bleomycin with collagens of sepia, fish and rat skins using spectrophotometry.
(3) Studies with radiolabelled polyethylene glycol (PEG4000) and EDTA show that the Sepia blood-brain barrier is as tight as the endothelial barrier of mammals.
(4) To add effects to a photo, select one from the menu - sepia, film reel - and swipe upwards to the photo from the icon representing that effect.
(5) This antiserum recognizes a 44 kDa (G alpha) and a 36 kDa (G beta) protein band from Sepia photosensory membrane preparation.
(6) The only catecholamines found present in nervous tissue of Eledone, Octopus and Sepia were dopamine and noradrenaline.
(7) A modification of the Oldendorf arterial injection technique is used to show that glucose transport at the Sepia barrier is mediated by a Na+-independent hexose carrier resembling that of mammalian red cells and blood-brain barrier.
(8) The effect of an intravenous injection of squid-ink (sepia-melanin) solution on adult mouse spheroid alveolar epithelial cells was observed by the electron microscope.
(9) Among them there were Todarodes pacificus, Ommastrephes bartrami, Berrytenthis magester, Sepia officinalis.
(10) A new technique using a stimulating chronically-implanted electrode has allowed us to study the motor responses induced by electrical stimulation of the optic lobe in a freely swimming Sepia.
(11) Effects of noradrenaline and the related compounds adrenaline, dopamine, octopamine, tyramine, clonidine and isoprenaline were studied in isolated heart preparations from the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis L. 2.
(12) Mackay had a difficult conversation with David Cameron , and subsequently appeared on TV with a sepia tan and embarrassed, bulging eyes.
(13) The musculature of the fins of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) was studied with electromyography to test predictions of the functional role of the various muscle masses.
(14) In contrast, at one week after injection of squid-ink solution, almost all alveolar macrophages were degenerated with destruction of the ectoplasm in which the ingested sepia-melanin particles were digested by lysosomes into fine particles, and the mitochondria of spheroid alveolar epithelial cells were degenerated and the inclusion bodies were hardly formed.
(15) The blood-brain interface was studied in a cephalopod mollusc, the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, by thin-section electron microscopy.
(16) The HSA results further confirm that the Sepia blood-brain interface is relatively tight to proteins.
(17) The blood-brain barrier in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis has been studied with the freeze-fracture technique.
(18) Most of all, however, Dingell mourned the sepia-toned era when Democrats and Republicans actually worked together.
(19) Tyrosine-enzymatic and Sepia melanin are quite similar and tyrosine-chemical melanin is fundamentally different from the other two melanins.
(20) They reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 World Cup but had never been in the semi-finals of a major tournament and the challenge was to surpass those sepia-tinted images.