(n.) An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preoperative diagnosis was symptomatic hallux valgus complex with hypermobile first ray in 33 and failed bunion surgery in 7.
(2) While the surgeon may tend to use one procedure in the repair of a hallux valgus deformity, versatility is most important when treating the juvenile bunion.
(3) The other complications included recurrence of the hallux valgus in two feet, pain under a fibular sesamoid in one foot, and a tailor's bunion that was unrelated to the operation in one foot.
(4) The authors explain the sequential development of a bunion beginning with hallux abducto valgus, then hypertrophy of the dorsomedial tubercle, followed by proximal articular set angle adaptation.
(5) Or is it someone who takes 10 minutes of going on about their bunions and general gripes before revealing that they had an episode of crippling chest pain last night, by the way?
(6) The two-stage capsular closure modification of the V-Y capsulorrhaphy in hallux abducto valgus surgery is a technique for restoring the soft tissue anatomical relationships of the first metatarsophalangeal joint in a bunion deformity.
(7) The purpose of this paper is to present to the physician a common clinical problem associated with tailor's bunion, a probable traumatic neuroma of the proper digital branch of the superficial division of the lateral plantar nerve.
(8) According to a new bunion rating score, 59% of patients had good to excellent results.
(9) The surgical technique used to repair a specific juvenile bunion depends upon the anatomic and physiologic abnormalities present in each patient.
(10) A significant correlation was found in group 1: hallux valgus grade 1, type I (great toe rotated, slight bunion) and group 6: hallux valgus grade 2, type III (great toe rotated, severe bunion and severe arthrosis).
(11) The hallux valgus deformity, or bunion deformity, is a common problem.
(12) There were two groups of patients: thirty-four patients (thirty-seven implants) who had degenerative joint disease (including those who had hallux rigidus or in whom a previous operation on a bunion had failed) and thirty-two patients (forty-nine implants) who had rheumatoid arthritis.
(13) Many of the patients who presented to the authors with tailor's bunion also exhibited a traumatic neuroma.
(14) A follow-up study of the tricorrectional bunionectomy as the surgical treatment for juvenile bunion deformity in seven patients is presented.
(15) Common foot pathologies are heel pain, metatarsalgia, hammertoes and clawtoes, bunions, hallux rigidus, corns and calluses, nail pathologies, arthritis, and neuropathies.
(16) There have been many surgical approaches described for the surgical treatment of tailor's bunions.
(17) Although the Mitchell osteotomy corrected the metatarsus primus varus in each case, the current series shows a discouraging incidence of later recurrence of hallux valgus and restriction of metatarsophalangeal motion causing the abandonment of this procedure for the management of juvenile bunion.
(18) This kind of simulation between tumoral calcinosis bunion formation and osteomyelitis has not been previously described.
(19) Bunion surgery is one of the most frequently performed operations on the foot.
(20) In our experience, the modified Lapidus procedure is the procedure of choice for the adolescent bunion with a hypermobile first ray.
Swelling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swell
(n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
(n.) A protuberance; a prominence
(n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(4) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
(5) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(6) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
(7) At 7 days axonal swellings were infrequently observed and the main structural feature was a reduction in myelin thickness in affected nerve fibers.
(8) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
(9) Admission venom levels also correlated with the extent of local swelling and the occurrence of tissue necrosis at the site of the bite.
(10) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
(11) The intensity of involvement varies in different arteries, localized swelling is of particular importance as a measure of atherosclerotic involvement.
(12) The DTH responses were induced by subcutaneous injection of allogeneic epidermal cells (ECs) and were assayed by footpad swelling.
(13) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(14) (1970) Endocrinology 87, 993--999), in stimulating both mitochondrial protein synthesis and swelling.
(15) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(16) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
(17) The method is based upon osmotic swelling, sonication and centrifugation in sucrose.
(18) By contrast, all the semen samples that fertilized oocytes showed a 60% or higher reaction in the hypoosmotic swelling test, whereas the majority of the "infertile" semen samples showed less than 60% swelling.
(19) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(20) After 3-5 days of side-arm traction, swelling had usually diminished sufficiently to allow the elbow to be safely hyperflexed to stabilize the fracture after elective closed reduction.