What's the difference between boutonniere and buttonhole?
Boutonniere
Definition:
(n.) A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
Example Sentences:
(1) The treatment is by dynamic splintage and the importance of distinguishing the deformity from the true boutonniere deformity is emphasised.
(2) Understanding the pathophysiology of the boutonniere deformity requires a complete understanding of the anatomy of the dorsal tendon apparatus.
(3) Step-cut lengthening of the central slip was associated with the development of a boutonniere deformity and an unsatisfactory result in three digits.
(4) The boutonniere deformity is the most common rheumatoid thumb deformity.
(5) This paper was presented at the 1986 Congress of the GEM, as a teaching conference on treatment of the boutonniere deformity, based on the experience of the Nancy Hand Unit.
(6) The pathology of the boutonniere begins with a synovitis of the joint, followed by elongation al the central slip, subluxation of the later bands, and contracture of the retinacular ligaments.
(7) The pseudo-boutonniere deformity is a boutonneire-like deformity resulting from a hyperextension injury to the proximal interphalangeal joint causing tearing of the volar soft tissues.
(8) The boutonniere thumb is the most common deformity.
(9) This paper discusses two of the most frequent digital deformities: the swan-neck and boutonniere.
(10) He is really trying: "pinned next to my boutonniere (a small white rose) was a finger bone I'd boiled the flesh off".
(11) The chronic boutonniere deformity reflects long-term derangement with secondary compensation of the extensor mechanism.
(12) Two cases of anteriorly dislocated interphalangeal joints, unrecognized as such early and allowed to progress to a chronic stage, presented to us as boutonniere deformities.
(13) The rheumatoid boutonniere deformity does not limit hand function significantly until it becomes severe.
(14) A boutonniere-like deformity may develop when no injury has been noted in the central slip of the extensor tendon.
(15) Splinting is the cornerstone of treatment for the boutonniere deformity.
(16) The most common preoperative deformity was a boutonniere deformity with a flexible interphalangeal joint.
(17) Without proper splinting, the patient with the boutonniere deformity could not be successfully treated.
(18) Other abnormalities, present in all age groups, included extrinsic and intrinsic digital muscle shortness, boutonniere and swan neck deformities, and hyperextension of the digital interphalangeal joints.
(19) boutonniere and swan-neck deformities, or tenosynovitis) can be seen in psoriatic arthropathy.
(20) Each had symmetric, boggy polysynovitis of the hands and wrists, resulting in nearly identical boutonniere deformities.
Buttonhole
Definition:
(n.) The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
(v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
Example Sentences:
(1) One London developer said the prince had used social occasions to buttonhole his boss to complain about the developer's enthusiasm for modernism.
(2) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
(3) They are prominent among a select band of standups, who – unlike the more conversational comics who dominate the industry – aren't stumped when the public buttonhole them and demand: "Tell us a joke."
(4) We recognized that buttonholes in the vertical direction were easier for children to button.
(5) Santer buttonholed Jones's colleague at CRU, Tim Osborn, a member of the editorial board of the journal.
(6) We came to the following conclusion: for an open front of children's clothing, buttons having a 2 cm diameter and buttonholes in the vertical direction were the best.
(7) "Maybe I need to look up the definition again, but lobbying consists of buttonholing legislators and other policymakers to get a particular result on a particular issue, and we never do that."
(8) After 2 years the prevalence of ulnar deviation, buttonhole deformity, and swan neck deformity was 13%, 16%, and 8%, respectively.
(9) Over an 8-year period, in an estimated 1200 cases, the authors have encountered cicatricial entropion, lower eyelid retraction, canthal dehiscence, lower eyelid avulsion, canalicular laceration, buttonhole laceration of the lower eyelid, conjunctival chemosis, and lacrimal sac laceration.
(10) Buttonholing of conjunctival flaps at the time of filtering glaucoma surgery or a leak in the flap postoperatively can cause serious problems and may be most difficult to repair.
(11) The factors preventing closed reduction included the femoral head buttonholed through the capsule and the piriformis muscle displaced across the acetabulum.
(12) At operation; either the proximal or distal end of the fracture was found to have 'buttonholed' through the lateral intermuscular septum, preventing reduction.
(13) As factors of experiment, we took two buttonhole directions (vertical and across) and three sizes of buttons (1, 2, 3 cm).
(14) "Buttonholing" of the rectus sheath by a sawing motion of the continuous nonabsorbable suture may be responsible for this later herniation.
(15) The direction of buttonholes was significant at the 5% level.
(16) The denuded penis was transposed to its original place by passing it through a buttonhole incision made on the anterior flap.
(17) However, entrapment of the flexor tendon by the displaced base of a buttonholed phalangeal metaphysis separated from its related epiphysis is quite rare.
(18) On exploration they had identical pathologic anatomy, viz, buttonholing of the ulnar head between the flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor digitorum profundus, pronator quadratus, and the flexor retinaculum.
(19) The condition is characterized by the presence of a prominent radial head that is caught in a buttonhole tear of the lateral collateral ligament and capsule.
(20) The findings warrant the description "volar capsular boutonnière" as the condyles of the proximal phalanx buttonhole, through the volar structures.