(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.
Carus
Definition:
(n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study reports the age specific prevalence rate of tumors in autopsies of the years 1958--1969, registered in the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" Dresden.
(2) The Medical Academy in Dresden bears his name "Carl Gustav Carus" since its foundation.
(3) There is just one paper which touches ophthalmology and teratology: in 1842, Carus described the monstrous head of a pig with cyclopia.
(4) They demonstrate a cryo-apparatus IKG 3 for liquid nitrogen which is part of the Dresden equipment and was elaborated by the department for cryomedicine of the "Carl Gustav Carus" Academy in cooperation with the Technical University in Dresden.
(5) Roderick Carus QC, defending Atkinson, asked for his client to be discharged, along with the other defendants cleared of all charges - Hadfield, James, and Dixon.
(6) The 2nd Dresden hematonocological meeting, organized by the Department of hematology and oncology of the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" and by the Tumorzentrum Dresden, focused ethical and anthropological topics.
(7) Physiognomy found acceptance in the medicine of modern times, particularly through the publications of Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) and then, after 1838, of Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner (1798-1886) who took advantage of lithography, which had just come into use, to reproduce pictures of patients.
(8) Curved nailing according to Lezius and Herzer was applied to 700 of 1,062 cases of pertrochanteric fractures of the femur at the Surgical Department of the "Carl Gustav Carus" Medical Academy, Dresden, between 1964 and 1985.
(9) Roderick Carus QC, defending Atkinson, asked for his client to be discharged, along with those of the other defendants cleared of all charges - Hadfield, James, and Dixon.
(10) Carl Gustav Carus is the most important personality in medicine in Dresden in the first half of the 19th century.
(11) My father had a copy of Paul Carus’s translation.