(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
(a.) Having large or prominent bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(2) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(3) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
(4) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
(5) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
(6) Most patients had pulmonary metastases, two had bony metastases, and one had metastases in the iliac nodes.
(7) Technetium-99m (V)DMSA has been demonstrated in this study to be a useful imaging agent in patients with MCT, showing uptake in significantly more lesions and with better imaging qualities than [131I]MIBG, and with the ability to detect soft tissue as well as bony metastases.
(8) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(9) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
(10) The diagnosis of cervical injuries may be facilitated by following a logical pattern of analysis searching for abnormalities of alignment and anatomy, of bony integrity, of the cartilage or joint spaces, and of the soft tissues.
(11) All lesions but one were located extradurally, and patients with Stage D2 disease, by virtue of bony metastases, were therefore at greatest risk for development of neurologically compressive disease.
(12) A study was undertaken to assess whether CT measurements of the upper craniofacial skeleton accurately represent the bony region imaged.
(13) Three dimensional images reconstructed from two dimensional CT scans allow improved analysis of complex orbitocranial bony deformities.
(14) The utility of computerized tomography of the chest, in addition to the chest roentgenogram, in assessing the bony involvement of the thoracic tumor is illustrated.
(15) The value of unenhanced CT essentially is limited to the demonstration of bony changes.
(16) Applying the principles of mechanics, the authors have studied and compared the bony structures of the temporo-mandibular joint.
(17) However, separation of the capsule from the bony glenoid can be detected if a joint effusion is present to adequately distend the joint.
(18) Sixty-three per cent of the implants were operated in immediately after tooth extraction, whereas the rest were installed in a healed bony alveolar ridge.
(19) From the survey of another 21 patients having bony abnormalities at the craniovertebral junction, the first type of arterial anomaly described above was seen in 4 patients and associated with failure of segmentation of the embryonic sclerotome such as occipitalization of the atlas or Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(20) Five patients were found to have biopsy-proved extramedullary plasmacytomas without extension from an underlying bony focus.
Osteoma
Definition:
(n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The radiological and macroscopic features were identical with osteoid osteoma.
(2) The author maintains that the osteoma of the brachial muscle as well as post-traumatic periarticular calcifications, occur in the muscle mass or in the tendon that prolongs it, or in the articular capsule, as a result of surgical treament and post-operative immobilization, and only exceptionally following orthopaedic treatment of traumatic lesions.
(3) Examples include the specific pattern of hypodontia seen before the development of iris dysplasia in Rieger syndrome, and the presence of supernumerary teeth and facial osteomas preceding malignant transformation of intestinal polyps in Gardner syndrome.
(4) Complications due to orbital or intracranial development of the osteoma are rare and demand neurosurgical treatment.
(5) In Paget's disease, there was shown a relative increase in the oligopeptide fraction, whereas the polypeptide fraction was increased in osteoma.
(6) A bucco-lingual cross action through the mandible in the canine area revealed central osteomas.
(7) The frequencies in the two groups are as follows: In the benign group, osteoma had the highest incidence and then, with decreasing frequencies: osteochondroma, chondroma, synovioma, giant cell tumor, ossifying fibroma, osteoid osteoma, chondromyxoid fibroma.
(8) Button osteomas affect two animals and are the only neoplastic conditions observed.
(9) Other cells present in osteoid osteoma besides osteocytes included osteoprogenitor cells resembling Scott type A and B cells and cells in transitional stages of differentiation.
(10) Osteoid osteomas were removed by CT-guided core drill excision of the nidus in 4 patients.
(11) Juxta-articular osteoid osteomas often show an absent or small perifocal osteosclerosis, whereas a laminar periosteal reaction was seen in all own cases.
(12) Within a period of 16 months, 25 osteomas of the paranasal sinuses were observed.
(13) Osteoid osteoma is a benign osteoblastic tumor usually diagnosed by conventional radiography.
(14) In the light of our investigations (29 phthitic or chronically hypotonic eyes, 12 of them with intraocular bone formation) and the literature primary osteomas of the choroid have to be interpreted more likely as secondary processes, possibly following a (birth-)trauma, than as congenital choristomas.
(15) Thirteen cases of osteoid osteoma demonstrated with computerized tomography are reported.
(16) Juxtaarticular osteoid osteomas in the ankle are frequently misdiagnosed because their symptoms mimic arthritis and may precede roentgenographic findings.
(17) This is a case report of a 13-year-old boy with an osteoid-osteoma located in the pedicle of the third lumbar vertebra.
(18) Recent progress in radiology for management of bone tumors (scintigraphy, angiography) have given greater accuracy in the preoperative diagnosis of osteoid osteoma.
(19) The authors describe a clinic case regarding a 23 year-old man affected by an osteoid osteoma of the hip's posterior edge of the cotyloid cavity.
(20) If the diagnosis is still unclear, selective angiography may reveal the tumor blush typical of osteoid osteoma.