(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.
Pisiform
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore.
(n.) A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) The nerve arises from the ulnar aspect of the ulnar nerve at an average distance of 8.5 centimeters from the proximal border of the pisiforme.
(4) Erosions on the triquetrum and pisiform are frequent in early rheumatoid arthritis and occur characteristically at 3 sites.
(5) Surgical decompression of Guyon's canal with removal of the pisiform bone resulted in a complete cure.
(6) Mechanisms of injury reported in the literature include blunt trauma to the hamulus or pisiform, forceful swinging of a grasped object, or a forceful muscular contraction.
(7) Os multangulum minus and os capitatum as well as os triquetrum and possibly also the os pisiforme showed a synostosis.
(8) Group A received vibration to an area 12.5 cm2 on the ulnar aspect of the palm of the hand 1 cm distal to the pisiform bone.
(9) Degenerative arthritis of the pisotriquetral joint was diagnosed by point tenderness over the pisiform and crepitus elicited by lateral movement of the pisiform on the triquetrum.
(10) If conservative therapy is unsuccessful, relief of pain can be obtained by excision of the pisiform bone.
(11) The accelerative phase of the adolescent growth spurt is accompanied by epiphyseal widths reaching diaphyseal widths in the fingers and radius and by ossification of the pisiform and hamate Stage 1.
(12) Fractures and especially luxations of the pisiform bone are rare injuries of hands, of which X-ray pictures are very important.
(13) Beside measurements of the wall structures in the region of the pisiform bone, the hook of hamate and the entrances of the loge, variations of muscles and the position of the ulnar artery and nerve with their terminal branches have also been examined.
(14) The so-called secondary pisiform is not a congenital variant but develops with increasing frequency in older age as one of the features of the osteoarthritic reactions.
(15) Five of the seven patients came to operation for the following disorder: local, circumscribed chondrosis, chondromatosis of flexor carpi ulnaris with osteochondromatosis, atrophy of the pisiform and in the two cases aseptic osteonecrosis.
(16) The pisiform is the only moving structure of the canalis carpi.
(17) The muscle originates from the medial epicondyle and the fascia of the forearm and inserts into the pisiform bone and retinaculum.
(18) In eight of sixteen patients with symptomatic pisotriquetral joints the pisiform was excised.
(19) In the early stages of lunate necrosis with a minus variant of the ulna the best results were obtained by shortening of the radius otherwise with the pisiform transposition.
(20) The lipoids leaving the vascular paths infiltrate the connective tissue capsule of the pisiform bone and stimulate the formation of osteoblasts at the border between bone and soft tissue.