(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.
Sternum
Definition:
(n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
(n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(2) Specimens from the bone marrow taken were by trephine biopsy from the sternum, ala ossis ilii and spine.
(3) The resections included an average of three ribs (range, two to five) and, in seven cases, part or all of the sternum.
(4) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
(5) Upper thoracic fractures that involved the clavicles, scapula, sternum, and ribs were present in four patients.
(6) Abnormal radionuclide concentrations were observed in the sternoclavicular, sternocostal, and manubriosternal joints, in the ribs, and in the sternum.
(7) For the sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium, however, ossification in A2 fetuses increased to the levels observed in the PF and C groups.
(8) diastasis recti abdominis with pericardial hernia, ventral defect of the diaphragm, partial defect of the sternum, and tetralogy of Fallot.
(9) In the remaining seven patients, sternal and mediastinal debridement with rewiring of the sternum was successfully applied.
(10) Three patients had anatomical variants of the sternum.
(11) A unique feature of the AF-associated musculoskeletal syndrome is osteolytic lesions that occur most frequently in the clavicle, sternum, long bones, and ilium.
(12) In affected lambs, lesions were seen consistently in the elbows, shoulders, sternum, and spine.
(13) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
(14) The microvascularization of the sternum of the child has been studied by a method of India ink injection and by histology.
(15) The indications for keeping sternum open were enlarged heart, myocardial edema, severe depression of myocardial contractility and reduced lung compliance due to pulmonary edema.
(16) forehead for 0-3 days, chest for 4-5 days, sternum for 6 days and later).
(17) Quiet inspiration before and after phrenicotomy was always associated with a caudal displacement of the sternum and a cranial displacement of the seventh rib; the second rib, however, was either motionless or also showed an inspiratory caudal displacement.
(18) The structure and morphology of the sternum from 33 West African dwarf (WAD) and sixteen Danish Landrace breed goats were studied radiographically.
(19) In five anesthetized and vagotomized dogs the sternum was split and the anterior right lung field exposed.
(20) The healing process in the longitudinally divided sternum was evaluated from the SPECT study.