What's the difference between aponeurosis and indigitation?
Aponeurosis
Definition:
(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.
Indigitation
Definition:
(n.) The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication.