What's the difference between clavicle and clavicular?
Clavicle
Definition:
(n.) The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The actuarial 4-year rate of continuous disease control above the clavicles was 78% for Stage II.
(2) While acromioclavicular joint injury is not uncommon, a complete posterior dislocation in which the distal clavicle penetrates and is entrapped by the trapezius muscle is among the most rare.
(3) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
(4) It is stated that the clavicle contributes significantly to the stability of the shoulder girdle, and that in man the presence of this bone represents an increase in the degree of freedom of the upper extremity mobility pattern, dependent on the transversal shape of the thoracic diameter.
(5) Upper thoracic fractures that involved the clavicles, scapula, sternum, and ribs were present in four patients.
(6) A unique feature of the AF-associated musculoskeletal syndrome is osteolytic lesions that occur most frequently in the clavicle, sternum, long bones, and ilium.
(7) Fractures of the clavicle, while common, are associated with few serious complications.
(8) In cases of severely restricted movement or severe pain resection of the medial clavicle may be considered.
(9) In our opinion resection of the sternal end of the clavicle should not be used in old traumatic dislocation.
(10) Partial resection of the anterior undersurface of the acromion, excision of the coracoacromial ligament or of the lateral end of the clavicle (and most commonly a combination of all three measures), were the methods used to achieve decompression.
(11) Condensing osteitis of the clavicle, better defined as aseptic enlarging osteosclerosis of the clavicle, is a rare and benign idiopathic lesion.
(12) A case of ipsilateral distal clavicle fracture and sternoclavicular joint dislocation is reported.
(13) Since there is no history of trauma in this case the dislocation is interpreted as a habitual lateral dislocation of the clavicle.
(14) The distal 6 cm of an infusion port catheter embolized to the right heart after spontaneous fracture of the catheter at the point where it passed between the clavicle and first rib.
(15) Shortening of the osteotomized clavicle by only 1 cm leads to an increase of these forces by about 40%.
(16) This is especially true when treating deep-seated tumors located below the clavicle.
(17) The prognostic factors analyzed included biopsy status of the neck, N stage, neck treatment, node mobility, node location, T stage, primary site, and control of disease above the clavicles.
(18) Although almost 100 cases of osteolysis of the distal clavicle have been reported in the literature, none have occurred in females (Neer and Rockwood, 1984).
(19) Although fractures of the humerus, scapula, and clavicle are common throughout life, most problems encountered between the ages of 15 and 60 are related to the ligaments, tendons, and muscles of the shoulder girdle.
(20) The surrounding connective tissue and the perichondrium showed weak type I collagen expression, while the zones of desmal ossification like the clavicle gave a strong signal.
Clavicular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the clavicle.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the role of the clavicular portion of the pectoralis major during cough in tetraplegic subjects.
(2) In 8 instances the post-stenotic dilatation was complicated by aneurysm and peripheral thrombo-embolism and this was regarded as a secondary phenomenon due to intermittent trauma at cost-clavicular level.
(3) Thirteen patients with isolated pain and swelling of a sterno-clavicular clavicular joint have been reviewed.
(4) Conservative treatment of clavicular fractures is to preferred.
(5) The length of the flap after transposition was measured and recorded before and after clavicular division.
(6) Like the rheumatism of acne conglobata, the spondylitis of pustulosis palmaris et plantaris is one of the causes of sterno-costo-clavicular hyperostosis.
(7) All seven were multiple fragment fractures in the middle of the clavicular shaft.
(8) The distance from the sternal notch to the clavicular division point was also recorded.
(9) The tube consisted of a teflon catheter, 160 mm long, 2 mm in outer diameter which was inserted into the second intercostal space in the mid-clavicular line in local analgesia.
(10) Subperiosteal clavicular resection for access to the subclavian artery is described.
(11) Two months after the second operation, a metastases of right supra-clavicular lymph nodes was uncovered and adjuvant chemotherapy was started.
(12) In Raynaud's syndrome surgery may have a place at the costo-clavicular level, in the thoracic sympathetic chain, in the carpal tunnel, and in necrotic lesions of the fingers.
(13) Traumatic dislocation of the sternoclavicular joint is very uncommon (1,5% of all dislocation, 10% of all dislocations in clavicular joints; ratio acromioclavicular dislocations: sternoclavicular dislocations = 5-10:1).
(14) The genesis and clinical characteristics of Scheuthauer-Marie-Sainton's syndrome (dysostosis cleido-cranialis), of congenital pseudoarthrosis of the clavicula of post-traumatic clavicular pseudoarthrosis in childhood determine the differential diagnostic considerations of pseudoarthrosis in children in cases which are initially not clear.
(15) We have speculated upon the nature of the clavicular defect in cranio-cleido dysostosis, in which disorder the first ribs are habitually elevated.
(16) In this procedure, the Sulcus interpectoralis, located between clavicular and sternocostal parts of the pectoralis major muscle, is split bluntly and spread apart.
(17) Chest X-ray film showed inter-sterno-costo-clavicular ossification.
(18) In nearly all instances, severe skull trauma or stab wounds to the neck or clavicular region gave rise to the air embolism.
(19) Two cases of anginal pain limited to the mandible with secondary radiation of the pain to the neck and clavicular region are presented.
(20) Most difficult to differentiate are: avascular necrosis of the medial clavicular epiphysis, sternoclavicular orsteoarthritis, low-grade chronic osteomyelitis, sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis and Tietze's syndrome.