(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.
Lunar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
(a.) Resembling the moon; orbed.
(a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
(a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
(n.) A lunar distance.
(n.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those figures are based on calculations recently made using images from Nasa's lunar reconnaissance orbiter cameras that reveal Lunokhod 2's tracks, the US space agency said.
(2) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(3) The lunar new year, also known as spring festival, is the most important holiday in China, sparking the world’s largest migration of people as millions of workers return home .
(4) The total content of collagen in skeletal muscle at 6 lunar month was 1.7% of wet weight of the tissue.
(5) The lunar particles found in the sample include: (i) spherules, rotational ellipsoids, dumbbells, tear-drops, rings, and crescents which have (ii) diameters of 0.1 to 500 microns; (iii) budlike features on the particles; and (iv) chemical inhomogeneity (electron probe).
(6) The example of the untreated peri-lunar luxation and subsequent lunar necrosis illustrates the legally effective problematic nature of two causes.
(7) São Paulo restaurants creating a new Brazilian cuisine Read more Music matches each course on a playful menu that varies not just with the seasons, but with lunar cycles and Vidolin’s spiritual state, so we’re told.
(8) Lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) were measured with a Novo radioisotope based dual photon densitometer and with a Lunar X-ray densitometer in 94 subjects attending a Metabolic Bone Disease Clinic.
(9) This phantom was scanned using the whole-body mode by the Lunar DPX to determine bone mineral content (BMC), area, bone mineral density (BMD), and body composition in terms of fat and fat-free tissue.
(10) We report here a quantitative comparison of the DEXA and DPA technologies using a Hologic DEXA (Hologic QDR model 1000, Waltham, MA) scanner and a Lunar DPA (Lunar Radiation DP3, gandolineum-153 source) scanner at both the proximal femur and lumbar spine sites using bone density measurements from a population-based sample of older white men and women who had complete DEXA and DPA measurements of the hip (n = 217) or the spine (n = 176).
(11) The statistical analysis revealed significant dependence of the obtained data on local geometrical properties of 12-hour lunar tidal waves.
(12) We would also be against any obstruction of solar or lunar sight lines from Stonehenge to surrounding monuments.
(13) On the Apollo missions, lunar dust got everywhere – the crews inhaled it and got it in their eyes, and it wreaked mechanical havoc – and on Mars the dust is even more problematic, because it is highly oxidised, chemically reactive, electrically charged and windblown.
(14) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(15) Two complete magna representing two species have a single proximal facet for articulation with the lunar, and they lack a facet for the scaphoid.
(16) No relationship between lunar cycles and total accidents or severity of accident was found.
(17) The choatic scenes on first night of the lunar new year were prompted by a government decision to clear a central Hong Kong market of unlicensed food hawkers.
(18) We’ve gathered a few creative intergalactic lesson plans below – including edible meteorites and studying real lunar rocks.
(19) 12 studies are reviewed that have examined the relationships among crisis calls to police stations, poison centers, and crisis intervention centers and the synodic lunar cycle.
(20) Among test integers 6 through 33, the number 30, approximating the 29.53-day lunar-synodic month, was consistently and statistically a best-fit multiple to the data.