(n.) A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(2) (b) abnormal morphologic of the glenoid fossa, mandibulars condyle and the neck of mandibula were seen.
(3) The author describes three systems for (1) the treatment of mandibular fractures; (2) the treatment of midface fractures, for reconstructive surgery of the facial skeleton and the skull, and for orthognathic surgery; and (3) the reconstruction of mandibular defects including condyle replacement.
(4) A case is described of acquired unilateral condylar hypoplasia, in which the right condyle seemed to have been fractured at an early age.
(5) A comparative cephalometric and tomographic study prior to the treatment and after completion of the treatment revealed the following results: an improvement in the occlusal relationships due to both skeletal (an anterior mandibular displacement and an increase in the mandibular length) and dentoalveolar changes; it was possible to produce a growth stimulation of the mandibular condyle associated with a translation of the glenoid fossa by using an elastic activator; there was a direct correlation between the effects of the treatment and the age period of the patients (mixed dentition).
(6) We have studied the expression of genes that typify osteogenic differentiation in mandibular condyles during in vitro cultivation.
(7) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.
(8) It is of mechanical or mixed type, accompanied by local, pseudo-inflammatory signs being either apparent or discrete, very elective and very sharp pain upon palpation of a very limited area of a condyle or a tibial plate, with hyperfixation located through scintigraphy with technetium 99m polyphosphates, and regressing either spontaneously, or more quickly under treatment, of which thyrocalcitone is the essential part, without undergoing a phase of intense loco-regional demineralization.
(9) The mandibular ramus was short in length and the mandibular condyle had not developed on the right.
(10) We assert that OCD and AVN are relatively common, clinically significant lesions of the mandibular condyle often associated with preexisting internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint.
(11) disfunctions; in female patients, the occurrence is slightly more than in male patients (respectively 34.7% and 23.3%); the "use of dentures" factor is slightly significant in comparison to not use of dentures; 50% of disfunctions are found among the 51 and 70 years age patients; the ruid is the more frequent sign of disfunction; the complain of pain in the condyle region is more frequent symptom of disfunction.
(12) The highest correlation coefficient values (r = 0.5) were observed between skull height and the size of the surface of the condyles and the length of the condyles.
(13) None of the condyles were lost as result of necrosis, but healing took longer when compared with the other group of animals.
(14) Some general considerations about tibial condyles fractures are presented, and the technique used by the authors is discussed at length.
(15) The characteristic radiographic findings in our group of patient are: --excentric condyle position, --posterior condyle displacement and --marked asymmetry.
(16) Surfaces of all pathologic condyles showed loss of lamina splendens, alteration of collagen size, and evidence of dissociation of both the collagen and its surrounding ground substance.
(17) The areas occupied by the layers making up the mandibular condyle remained relatively constant, forming an architectural pattern from the 30th postnatal day on.
(18) McLaughlin, and in one case the medial condyle was fixed to the femur.
(19) Radiographic osteophyte observed in the antero-superior part of the condyle, revealed remodelling and morphological changes corresponding to the radiographic findings.
(20) Among 37 patients with atrophy in condyles, 30 patients (81%) showed organic changes in TMJ components.
Condyloid
Definition:
(a.) Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the trabecular bones of the lumbar vertebra and condyloid processes from single cadavers by age revealed a clear reduction in trabecular bone density and width in the lumbar vertebra accompanying advancing age.
(2) The clinical and radiological results showed a restitution mainly with children of less than 10 years whereby the true repositioning of the dislocated condyloid process is of no importance.
(3) If satisfactory dental occlusion can be achieved by surgical stabilization of the noncondylar fractures, surgical repair of the mandibular condyloid fracture may not be necessary.
(4) Robust australopithecines are also characterized by apparently low frequencies of mastoid and parietal foramina, and high frequencies of multiple hypoglossal canals and posterior condyloid foramina.
(5) In the other patient the entire condyloid process appeared proportionately enlarged.
(6) The incidence of true osteoma in the mandibular condyloid process is extremely rare.
(7) In the condyloid process in contrast no major changes were observed; it appears that the effects of aging are slight.
(8) Hypoplasia may involve the entire hemimandible or be restricted to its condyloid process.
(9) Some RI lines had mandible shapes unlike either parent, and one in particular, line BXA1, had an unusual shape with a pronounced condyloid process.
(10) Longer duration requires wide excision of the condyloid as well as coronoid processes.
(11) The type 1 and 11 cells were located in the space between the internal and external carotid arteries and had a varied relationship to the occipital and condyloid arteries.
(12) The PHA originated as a large anomalous branch of the right internal carotid artery in the neck and joined the basilar artery after entering the posterior fossa through the ipsilateral anterior condyloid foramen, which was enlarged.
(13) The vertebral and condyloid arteries form a plexus on basioccipital bone (plexus basioccipitalis).
(14) Clinical and radiographic follow-up examinations of 37 patients (after an average period of 5 years) revealed: jaw or tooth anomalies in 56.7%, anomalous radiographic findings concerning the condyloid process in 14.7%, and anomalous radiographic findings concerning the teeth in the former fracture line in 27%.
(15) Six cases of fracture of the mandibular condyloid process in which there was osteosynthesis using the Kirschner pin were followed radiographically for more than 1 year.
(16) In 2 Basset Hounds, the condyloid processes of the mandible became subluxated when the mouth was opened widely, resulting in repeated episodes of locking of the coronoid process lateral to the zygomatic arch.
(17) Using dentulous and edentulous specimens, mathematical morphology was applied to quantities bone morphology measurements, of the trabecular bones in the condyloid processes, which form the temporomandibular joint and are the center of mandibular motion.
(18) Fracture of the mandibular condyloid process is an infrequently diagnosed injury that usually occurs with other mandibular fractures.
(19) In order to observe changes in the trabecular bone structure of the mandibular condyloid process and their relationship to age, the mandibular condyloid process and third lumbar vertebra were extracted from cadavers from several age groups, and changes in trabecular bone structure due to age were compared.
(20) Three cats and 1 dog with fracture of the mandibular condyloid process and concomitant fracture(s) of the rostral portion of the mandible were treated successfully by wire fixation of the rostral mandibular fracture(s) and by conservative management of the mandibular condylar fracture.