(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
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.
Carpus
Definition:
(n.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The carpus is initially a cartilaginous structure that subsequently demarcates into separate carpal bones.
(2) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(3) The most frequently affected joints were knees, ankles, and carpus.
(4) If not enough styloid is excised, osteophytic overgrowth will occur; if too much is excised, the carpus will sublux radially.
(5) In case of persistent swelling and painful limitation of mobility, "distorsion" can be accepted as the definitive diagnosis, only if osseous and ligamentous injuries of the wrist and carpus have been ruled out with sufficient certainty.
(6) Quality of imaging of carpus showed NMR to be superior for exploration than standard radiography and even CT scan images.
(7) 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.
(8) Magnetic resonance imagine of the carpus is helpful in diagnosing or ruling out even early stages of lunatomalacia.
(9) In the ponies with a mild form of induced arthritis, PRFT significantly (p less than 0.05) reduced the severity and duration of lameness, swelling of the carpus, and the severity of gross pathological and radiographic changes.
(10) Recognition of the problem early in its course is necessary to minimize valgus deformity and secondary osteoarthritis of the elbow and carpus.
(11) If the fracture results in loss of containment of the carpus, a chronically weak and sometimes painful wrist will result.
(12) Two children with radial club hand and absence of the biceps muscle were treated by centralisation of the ulna into the carpus and triceps transfer.
(13) During the last decade the classical idea of the rigid carpal block was abandoned in favour of the "carpus of variable geometry".
(14) Transscapho-transcapitate fracture dislocation of the carpus is a rare form of perilunate dislocation.
(15) The graft is slid under this bridge, placed onto the roughened surface of the carpus and pushed under the operculum raised at the base of the 2nd and 3rd metacarpals.
(16) Removal of the extra muscle and section of the transverse ligament of the carpus resolved the painful symptomatology.
(17) Four patients with intraosseous ganglion in the carpus are presented.
(18) A technique is presented for stimulating the motor branch of the median nerve in the palm in order to detect the degree of neurapraxia due to entrapment in the carpus.
(19) Bone mineral density of defined regions of the lumbar spine, femoral neck, and carpus was measured in 25 men who met accepted diagnostic criteria for ankylosing spondylitis but had early disease, with normal mobility and no, or very minor, radiological evidence of lumbar spine involvement.
(20) Fracture of the scaphoid is the most common injury of the carpus.