(a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.
(n.) The coracoid bone or process.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and seventeen shoulders in 113 patients were treated surgically for recurrent anterior dislocation of the shoulder by the Latarjet procedure - transplantation of the coracoid process to the anterior border of the glenoid fossa.
(2) The eleven fractures of the acromiom, glenoid, or coracoid process resulted in loss of motion in ten of the eleven shoulders.
(3) Such subcoracoid impingement is relieved by resection of the inferolateral part of the coracoid tip and of the coracoacromial ligament.
(4) The thirty-eight fractures involving only the body, neck, or spine of thirty scapulae (without involvement of the acromion, glenoid, or coracoid process) were successfully treated with a sling and early active motion.
(5) The surgical treatment consists of fixation of the clavicula to the coracoid with screw figure-of-eight suture and suture or plastic of the ligament.
(6) The neurovascular bundle may be compressed at multiple sites: costoclavicular space, interscalene triangle, insertion of the pectoralis minor into the coracoid process.
(7) When a fracture of the coracoid process is identified by clinical examination and X-rays, one should always be aware of a possible acromioclavicular dislocation.
(8) Subcoracoid impingement appeared particularly likely during forward flexion of a shoulder with a coracoid tip close to the scapular neck and projecting far laterally.
(9) After healing of the acromioclavicular separation and the coracoid fracture the left shoulder was asymptomatic with a full range of motion.
(10) A patient with a fractured coracoid process in association with a dislocation of the shoulder is reported.
(11) Neurovascular bundle in the upper limbs may be compressed at the costo-clavicular space, interscalene triangle or at the insertion of the minor pectoralis muscle into the coracoid process.
(12) This paper describes a fracture of the scapula, extending around the coracoid process and through the glenoid cavity.
(13) 386), the cranial part of the muscular arch of the axilla (Cpa) was extended to the coracoid process by a tendon and attached to the abdominal part of the pectoralis major by two muscle bundles supplied by independent branches from Npc.
(14) Seventeen patients with complete separation of the acromioclavicular joint were operated on acutely with transposition of the coracoid tip to the clavicle.
(15) Most characteristic malformations of this syndrome were shown to include coracoid nose and hypertelorism, coloboma of the eyes, hypospadia, aplasia, hypoplasia and polycystosis of the kidneys, dystopia and dysplasia of the cerebellar gyri, shortening of H2 field of the Ammon's horn with imparied orientation of its neurons, sacral sinus, and retarded bone maturation.
(16) Subsets of the thoracic outlet compression syndrome were then codified; costoclavicular compression; compression under the coracoid process during hyperabduction; primary symptoms related to arterial compression; and the syndrome that appears when neural and arterial compression are absent but venous occlusion is present.
(17) With their typical echo, the head of the humerus and the coracoid-process facilitate the orientation.
(18) If coracoid mobilization is necessary, the musculocutaneous nerve and its twigs should be identified and protected, keeping in mind the variations in anatomy and the level of penetration.
(19) Complete acromioclavicular dislocation associated with fracture separation of the base of the coracoid process is uncommon.
(20) The reason for failure was excessively proximal attachment of the coracoid transplant in one case, while an objective diagnosis of multidirectional instability by reference to the autotraction test and stress roentgenograms was reached in the other three.
Reptile
Definition:
(a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
(a.) Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.
(n.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.
(n.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.
(n.) A groveling or very mean person.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have labelled single, primary auditory neurones in three reptile and one bird species.
(2) The microchromosomes are like those found in certain other primitive fishes as well as in reptiles and birds.
(3) Its adaptive value, chiefly in reptiles, remains an open question.
(4) Since it is known that fever is beneficial in infected reptiles, our experiments were viewed as an initial step in the investigation of a similar potentially beneficial effect in mammals.2.
(5) The distribution of serotonin-immunoreactive cells in the lung of 4 species of reptiles was investigated.
(6) The endocrine pancreas of this reptile is located throughout the spleen side of the organ and consists of islet-like structures, small groups of two to five cells, and single scattered endocrine cells.
(7) As in the case of other reptiles, particularly the alligator, a limited range of peptide-storing cells was found in the gut of the crocodile.
(8) There is clearly an MHC in amphibians and birds with many characteristics like the MHC of mammals (a single genetic region encoding polymorphic class I and class II molecules) and evidence for polymorphic class I and class II molecules in reptiles.
(9) Among birds 84.2% of the isolates were S. typhimurium, among mammals 62.6%, among reptiles only 26.8%.
(10) The evolution of enamel structure is dealt with here on the basis of fossil reptiles and mammals ranging from the Triassic to the present.
(11) An immunocytochemical method, using glutaraldehyde fixation and an antiserum developed against a GABA-glutaraldehyde protein conjugate, permitted direct visualization of GABAergic structures in the brain of a reptile (chameleon).
(12) Rodioimmunoassayable somatostatin (SRIF) was found in acid ethanol extracts from various parts of the gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) endocrine system in reptiles, amphibians, teleost bony fish, cartilaginous fish, and jawless fish, as well as in a deuterostomian invertebrate, the tunicate, Ciona intestinalis.
(13) The ultrastructure of the nasal glands of the roadrunner injected with salt and of quail drinking 200 mM NaCl was similar to that of salt glands in reptiles and the fresh-water acclimated duck.
(14) A tabulation of previously documented ovarian neoplasia in reptiles and a comparison of this cancer to those occurring in women will be discussed.
(15) the bowel of reptiles, has no changed for some hundred million years.
(16) On the basis of the amino acid sequence of cytochromes c in different species the degree of clustering and the degree of the chain asymmetry of the corresponding structural genes of DNA was found to have a general tendency towards an increase in the following order: invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.
(17) A tendency for an increase in the index of clustering of DNA was revealed in the sequence: invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.
(18) The anti-G beta, gamma antibodies recognized a 35-36-kDa protein in brain of vertebrates such as mammals (rat), avians (pigeon), amphibians (frog), fish (trout), and reptiles (turtle) but not in the invertebrates such as molluscs (snail) and insects (locust).
(19) These results reveal that some species of fishes, amphibians and mammals can act as the second intermediate host and that some species of reptiles, birds and mammals can act as a paratenic host.
(20) However, in many of these animals, including reptiles, the physiological functions and importance of the system remain unclear.