(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.
Supracondylar
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Supracondyloid
Example Sentences:
(1) The fractures were localized as follows: 7 in the proximal, 7 in the middle, 1 in the distal third of the shaft, 5 subtrochanteric, 1 supracondylar.
(2) In 37 cases of supracondylar and intracondylar fractures of the femur treated by open reduction and internal fixation, a two-plane compression device, affording firm fixation in either the sagittal or frontal plane, was used with excellent results.
(3) Comminuted, oblique, and infected fractures of the entire length of the femoral shaft down to the supracondylar region can be held rigidly, usually allowing for immediate weight-bearing.
(4) The dominant sites were the femur (supracondylar) and humerus (subcapital).
(5) The supracondylar process in an osseous spur located above the medial condyle of the humerus.
(6) Relapses, however, must be treated by double osteotomy (supracondylar of the femur and metaphyseal of the tibia) with removal of anterior wedges.
(7) The correction that was obtained at operation was maintained in the two patients in whom the cubitus varus deformity had been caused by malunion of a supracondylar fracture.
(8) Fractures between the subtrochanteric and supracondylar region has been considered.
(9) The treatment of supracondylar fractures of the femur should be surgical.
(10) 15 of 28 children with supracondylar fracture of the humerus, were treated with overhead olecranon traction and 11 with closed reduction and plaster splint.
(11) After treatment with two lateral percutaneous pins, 80 children with grade II-III supracondylar elbow fractures were reviewed.
(12) There was one case of deep infection and one supracondylar femoral fracture.
(13) Four supracondylar femoral fractures following total knee arthroplasty, two because of intraoperative notching of the anterior femoral cortex and two because of osteoporosis, were revised using a custom-made prosthesis with femoral condyle section.
(14) The author describes his experience after treatment of 8 cases of cubitus varus secondary to displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus in African children.
(15) From 1982 to 1986, a total of 106 children with supracondylar fractures of the humerus were treated at the trauma surgery clinic in Braunschweig.
(16) Treatment of supracondylar fractures remains very conventional (Judet's method), experience lacking in the use of contention in strong flexion for these fractures.
(17) The most common fractures were: supracondylar fracture of the humerus -55 per cent, fracture of the radial neck -14 per cent, and fracture of the lateral humeral condyle -12 per cent.
(18) Between 1974 and 1984 the Zickel supracondylar nail system was used to fix 82 femora.
(19) We reviewed the data on thirty-six supracondylar fractures of the femur (in thirty-four patients) that occurred after total knee arthroplasties that were done between April 1974 and December 1981.
(20) For the past twenty-one years the frequency of Volkmann's contracture has not declined in spite of many published reports on the compartment syndrome, and the hazards of supracondylar fractures and of Bryant's traction.