(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale.
Example Sentences:
(1) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
(2) The various theories of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) are reviewed.
(3) One middle carpal joint of each horse was injected 3 times with 100 mg of 6-alpha-methylprednisolone acetate, at 14-day intervals.
(4) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(5) The carpus is initially a cartilaginous structure that subsequently demarcates into separate carpal bones.
(6) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(7) Eighteen patients with various mucopolysaccharidoses or mucolipidosis III were studied electrophysiologically to determine the presence or absence of carpal tunnel syndrome.
(8) Tenosynovial biopsy specimens from 177 wrists were obtained from patients at carpal tunnel release, and a control group of 19 specimens was also obtained.
(9) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(10) Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common and best known of the compression neuropathies in the upper extremity.
(11) The paper examines a microsurgical technique of neurolysis and epineurotomy in the treatment of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(12) MRI allowed the direct demonstration of carpal tunnel abnormalities in 8 cases, while abnormal findings in the median nerve were observed in 18 patients.
(13) We report the first case of avascular necrosis of a carpal bone to be imaged on a 0.064 Tesla magnet, one of the lowest field strength magnetic resonance imaging systems currently available.
(14) Osteopetrosis is diffuse and is associated with important metaphyseal widening as well as epiphyseal irregularities and often carpal and tarsal supernumerary bones.
(15) Besides, one should also remember that it deprives the patient of the carpal joint.
(16) Eight hundred twenty-one median nerves were retrospectively and prospectively reviewed for variations during operations to treat carpal tunnel syndrome.
(17) It is concluded that scintigraphy is of value in carpal trauma not only to exclude scaphoid fracture but also to direct the attention to the possibility of other carpal fractures, otherwise usually missed.
(18) The Herbert bone screw was initially developed for management of fractures of the carpal scaphoid.
(19) The wrists of 16 normal volunteers were examined via high-resolution sonography with special reference to the carpal tunnel.
(20) Histologic examination of the volar carpal ligament showed fibrocartilaginous changes suggesting a progressive degenerative phenomenon.
Carpi
Definition:
(pl. ) of Carpus
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical arthritis, estimated by enlargement of carpi, correlated with severe inflammation of radiocarpal synovium.
(2) The activity of single motoneurones of m. flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU) was investigated by recording their motor unit (MU) action potentials during weak and moderate voluntary muscle contractions.
(3) Closed rupture of the extensor carpi ulnaris tendon in a patient who does not have rheumatoid arthritis has not been previously reported to our knowledge.
(4) To examine neuromuscular partitioning within human muscles, the innervation patterns and muscle fiber architecture of the flexor carpi radialis (FCR), extensor carpi radialis longus (ECRL) and lateral gastrocnemius (LG) muscles were examined.
(5) Our study points to the role of the flexor and extensor carpi ulnaris muscles in the stability of the internal carpus, confirming that the pisiform is a sesamoid bone in the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon.
(6) Since 1986, 7 necrosed lunate bones (Kienbock disease) in 7 patients were replaced by the nearby pisiform bone with a pedicle of its own nutrient vessels and tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris.
(7) The X-ray showed an isolated osseous tendon rupture of the extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle at the base of the third metacarpal.
(8) We used transcranial magnetic stimulation to map the cortical representations of 4 upper extremity muscles (abductor pollicis brevis, flexor carpi radialis, biceps, and deltoid) of 10 normal subjects.
(9) The electromyographic (EMG) reflexes evoked in the wrist flexor muscle, flexor carpi radialis (FCR), by percutaneous extension of its tendon and by forcible extension of the wrist joint have been studied.
(10) However, the donor defect is significant and an otherwise excellent result is often impaired by a poor graft take over the exposed flexor carpi radialis tendon, even when great care has been taken to preserve its paratenon.
(11) Restoring stability to the ulna as well as reconstructing a new sheath for the extensor carpi ulnaris can be accomplished in most cases by using the extensor retinaculum.
(12) We exstirpated the bionecrotic fragment of the scaphoid, splitted the tendon of the flexor carpi radialis muscle, removed a part of the tendon from the belly of the muscle, rolled it in and fixed it in the excavated cavity of the bone.
(13) The H-reflex has been recorded from the flexor carpi radialis muscle in the upper limb and vastus medialis (quadriceps) muscle in the lower limb in relaxed healthy subjects.
(14) We describe 4 patients who complained of pain over the course of the flexor carpi radialis tendon at the wrist, and who presented with point tenderness there.
(15) Lengthening of the extensor carpi radialis brevis has proved to be a simple, yet effective, method for treating this problem.
(16) The cause of paralysis was entrapment of the nerve and flexor carpi ulnaris in the fracture.
(17) The extensor carpi radialis longus and extensor carpi ulnaris are deforming forces that may delay osseous union when cast immobilization alone is used.
(18) A significant decrease was found in the subjects; ability to isolate the pretest motor unit during and after continuous and interrupted periods of vibration and following a maximal isometric contraction of the extensor carpi radials brevis muscle.
(19) A muscle that often was an exception was M. Flexor Carpi Radialis.
(20) Four months after castration, cross-sectional cell area decreased by 70% and 14%, respectively, in the flexor carpi radialis and flexor carpi centralis muscles of the forearm and only by 2% in the ileo fibularis muscle of the thigh.