(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.
Radiale
Definition:
(n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.
(n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(2) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(3) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(4) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(5) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
(6) Yet in 4 patients in whom no aortic late systolic pressure wave was apparent (group II), nitroprusside did not alter the difference between aortic and radial systolic pressures.
(7) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
(8) The assay systems include : viral infectivity, complement fixing activity, particle counts, radial diffusion titre and single radial haemolysis titre.
(9) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(10) Peak pressures measured with the RP probe decreased to congruent with50 mm Hg and radial pressure asymmetry vanished.
(11) We report the case of a man with atypical pain and X-rays modifications of the radial tubercle.
(12) The Fel d I RIA was compared with a radial immunodiffusion technique for the determination of allergen levels in several cat extracts and a good quantitative correlation was found.
(13) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
(14) In a third experiment, animals were trained 16 days in the same maze configuration and at day 17 they were exposed to the mirror image of the radial maze.
(15) IgE levels in nude mice were estimated by the one-step single radial radiodiffusion method antisera prepared by immunization of guinea pigs with an IgE-rich fraction obtained from sera of normal mice infected with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and immunized with DNP-ovalbumin in alum gel.
(16) To investigate the topography of the clear zone, we performed four- and eight-incision radial keratotomy in eight cadaver eyes.
(17) The mean values of radial and ulnar components for each pair of homologous fingers separately are also compared.
(18) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
(19) In 20 out of 32 infants (63%), complete occlusion of the radial artery occurred.
(20) The kininogen level in human serum was estimated by single radial immunodiffusion.