(n.) Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciae which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.
Example Sentences:
(1) (1) The superficial layer (external oblique aponeurosis).
(2) Similar results were found for achilles tendon, but the magnitude of the length change involved was smaller than for aponeurosis.
(3) This change in fiber angle proved to be different in the proximal and distal part of the aponeurosis.
(4) Recession of the levator aponeurosis has proved to be an excellent operation to correct upper eyelid retraction in Graves' disease.
(5) Two original operations are proposed: ablation of the great toe with a preliminary transection of the tendon of the long flexor and radical operation of the deep phlegmon of the foot with the dissection of plantar aponeurosis and short flexors of the toes.
(6) It is however restricted by its medial tendon which runs into the palmar aponeurosis.
(7) Hunter's perforator is a vein which joins the great saphenous vein with the femoral vein by passing through the aponeurosis of the adductor (Hunter's) canal, more or less at the junction of the lower and middle thirds of the thigh.
(8) After a blunt trauma diagnosis between levator aponeurosis desinsertion and neurogenic ptosis is important in planing the treatment: early surgery for the first and foregoing for the later.
(9) Aponeurosis length increased (by 31%) as did angle of the aponeurosis with the line of pull (approximately 4 degrees).
(10) In group A, those patients with skin, soft-tissue, and Achilles tendon loss were treated with free groin flaps that included sheets of the external oblique aponeurosis based on the superficial circumflex iliac vessel.
(11) The transversus abdominis aponeurosis and its investing sheath of transversalis fascia are the first line of defense against groin herniation.
(12) Clinical and histologic findings suggest that degeneration and defects of the levator aponeurosis contribute to the ptosis.
(13) Three patches were fixed to the adjacent abdominal aponeurosis with a single row of sutures; seven patches were implanted with a 1-2 cm overlap of patch and aponeurosis and a double row of sutures.
(14) The small differences of geometry between isometric and dynamic conditions are presumably due to the lower muscle force in the dynamic condition and the elastic behaviour of the aponeurosis.
(15) A vulnerable area of traumatic occlusion is provided by the anatomic relationship of the superficial branch of the ulnar artery to the hamate bone and the palmar aponeurosis.
(16) The putting in tension of the dorsal aponeurosis of the digits induces its retraction and the nearness of its insertions on the basis of the 3 phalanges.
(17) The advantages of this implant's design permit stabilization of small epiphyseal fragments with minimal interference of joint function and perhaps a reduction of irritation of the extensor aponeurosis.
(18) Muscle fibres were located between internal aponeuroses, between external aponeuroses, between internal and external aponeuroses, between an internal aponeurosis and the periosteum, and between an external aponeurosis and the periosteum.
(19) Since the iliopubic tract inserts into the pubic ramus, a significant gap is created between it and the main transversus aponeurosis which inserts some distance above into the rectus sheath.
(20) One patient also had upper eyelid retraction, which was decreased by excising Müller's muscle and recessing the levator aponeurosis simultaneously with the lower eyelid surgery.
Aponeurotic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aponeurotic ptosis repair may be performed under local anesthesia, and past reports have suggested that operative lid position may be used to predict the final result.
(2) Parietal repair according to the Shouldice technique consists of a double line of sutures on each of three musculo-aponeurotic layers of the groin, i.e.
(3) Contracture of these fasciae, usually ischemic in nature, may cause contracture of the first web space ; the neurovascular elements, which are implicated in paralysis and Volkmann's contracture ; the teguments of the web space and thenar aponeurotic system in which cord-like thickening (as in Dupuytren's contracture), accidental or surgical incisions, may result in severe contracture of the first web space.
(4) Aponeurotic repair can be performed for primary or recurrent hernias.
(5) The juvenile aponeurotic fibroma, isolated in 1953 by Louisa Keasbey is a rare tumour which is characterized by its recurrence and infiltration, but which has no tendency to metastasis.
(6) The plastic repair is a two-stage procedure: The first stage consists of suturing the musculo-aponeurotic part of m. transversalis and m. obliq.
(7) The methods comprise duplication of the whole peritoneal-muscular-cicatricial-aponeurotic complex of the abdominal wall by means of a double-row suture passed through all these layers and application of a third reinforcing row of sutures; whenever necessary, the operation is divided into two stages.
(8) In order to ascertain whether tissue in which suture thread is inserted undergoes weakening, the strength against sutures in healing aponeurotic layer was determined in rabbits.
(9) The method of surgical repair in all cases was peritoneal-aponeurotic transposition.
(10) The authors describe their original method of fascio-aponeurotic plasty of the bone defect in meningocele in children.
(11) A calcifying aponeurotic fibroma involving the soft tissue and bone of the occipital area compressed and attenuated the cerebellum and brainstem of a 9-year-old female dog of mixed breeding.
(12) The clinical experience with surgical reconstruction of the abdominal wall in vast defects in 172 cases of big and giant postoperative hernias by means of modified autoplasty methods with the formation of the doubling with a deep superposition of aponeurotic-muscular grafts is presented.
(13) (2) Lesions of the collateral veins: these remain the most frequently encountered in civil practice; they result in either deep hematomas in the muscles (sub-aponeurotic), or superficial hematomas between aponeurosis and integument.
(14) Use of a moulded aponeurotic graft, shapened and then made rigid by heat and formalin, is a seductive method of tympanic reconstruction because of its simplicity and availability.
(15) Our findings on the variability of the palmar aponeurotic attachments of the human hand were confronted with the incidence and frequency of one particular finger when affected by a Dupuytren's contracture and we commented on the predisposition of certain fingers or toes for the affliction of this impairment.
(16) Aponeurotic sheaths are only poorly attached to anatomical structures, especially nerves.
(17) The volar fascicles of the interosseous muscles possess two separate components: the proximal and glenoidal one, the distal and aponeurotic other.
(18) These techniques should always be associated with active, mild physiotherapy, and in some cases with dynamic splints in order to prevent the development of functional sequelae in the form or capsulo-aponeurotic retraction.
(19) It is secondary to impairment of the internal pudendal nerve in its musculo-osteo-aponeurotic tunnel composed by the ischium and the obturator internus muscle (ischiorectal fossa or pudendal canal).
(20) Starting from simple skin excision, then through broad skin separation, reshaping of the platysma and cutting bands from the superfascial musculo-aponeurotic layer, one reaches to the present method of subperiosteal facial correction.