(n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
Example Sentences:
(1) This disorder associated coxa vara, large terminal phalanges, bilateral cataracts and severe mental deficiency.
(2) The high frequency of coxa magna in these patients and its possible role in the development of degenerative arthritis indicate that transient synovitis of the hip should not be considered a harmless disease until further epidemiologic studies are available.
(3) Thirty-two of the affected calves had macroscopic lesions in the coxae.
(4) In 5 cases the involved bone was resected, in 6--edge resection with homoplasty and in 7--segmental resection with automoplasty were employed, in 4--amputation, in 1--exarticulation in the coxa.
(5) The structure of scutum, organs of gnathosoma and coxae, chaetotaxy of idiosoma and gnathosoma were used for differential diagnosis.
(6) Preferred anatomic host beds for transplantation were the coxa, arm, and vertebral column.
(7) Posteriorward horizontal deflection of the femur-trochanter relative to the coxa (at right angles to the normal plane of movement) produced a strong excitation of the group 1 sensilla.
(8) Interneurons are demonstrated in which membrane potential oscillations mirror the leg position or show correlation with the motoneuronal activity of the protractor and retractor coxae muscles during walking.
(9) By measuring the longitudinal and cross-sectional lengths of both the femoral heads and necks, we felt that "coxa magna" should be defined as the condition with enlargement of all of these parameters.
(10) This is of interest because residual coxa vara following a hip fracture in an adult is a deformity in which there is little if any corrective remodeling.
(11) This leg was connected with two sets of coxae by a irregular-shaped bone considered the vestigial vertebrae and ribs.
(12) In 2 children with cysts in the upper end of the femur, there were 3 complications: coxa vara, avascular necrosis and osteochondritis dissecans.
(13) From the roentegonological viewpoint for fair were considered the findings without persisting subluxation and dislocation with the spheric head (the asphercity on the Moose template did not exceed 2 mm) and without evident shape deformities of the proximal end of the femur (coxa vara, overgrowth of the greater trochanter).
(14) Coxa vara worsens as it evolves, and is often accompanied by other femoral deformities, such as hypometria, axial knee deviations, and rotational deformity.
(15) The ipsilateral mesothoracic coxa-femur (CF) joint extended for all wind angles.
(16) The B. japonicum cycM and coxA mutants were able to fix nitrogen in symbiosis with soybean (Fix+).
(17) Larva differs from I. trianguliceps in longer setae of alloscutum, longer ventrolateral tooth of 1st palpal joint and longer medial tooth of coxae I.
(18) In the femora, the main curve was anterolateral with some medial rotation and coxa vara.
(19) The authors noted a number of peculiarities and positive moments in case of application of hip joint transosseous access after Kulish with 87 patients, aged 14-64 years, with deforming coxarthrosis, femoral head aseptic necrosis, coxa vara, congenital hip dislocation and femoral head epiphyseolysis.
(20) In 54 female patients deformities in the region of 68 mammary glands were eliminated simultaneously during surgical procedures for cicatricial contractures of the brachial joint, coxa and neck.
Hip
Definition:
(n.) The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
(n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
(n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
(v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
(v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
(v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
(n.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).
(interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
(n.) Alt. of Hipps
Example Sentences:
(1) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(2) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
(3) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(4) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(5) The incidence of femur fracture in non-cemented hip arthroplasty has been reported to be between 4.1% and 27.8%.
(6) There was a larger difference in incidence between countries than between sexes, which suggests important genetic or environmental factors in the causation of hip fracture.
(7) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(8) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
(9) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(10) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(11) US clearly images the cartilaginous femoral head and enables accurate assessment of hip size, shape, and symmetry.
(12) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
(13) Four cases of a ganglion of the hip joint are reported.
(14) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(15) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
(16) The dimensions of the acetabular wall were thinner in the hips that had the thirty-two-millimeter component than in those that had the twenty-two-millimeter component (p less than 0.05).
(17) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
(18) Trends in sex specific mortality from six conditions (hip fracture, septicemia, pneumonia, cancer, heart disease, and stroke) were examined for the period 1968 to 1980 to determine if recent increases in life expectancy at advanced ages were associated with significant shifts in the pattern of cause specific mortality at those ages.
(19) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(20) From 1960 through 1975, 337 patients with surgically treated acute fracture of the hip received subcutaneously administered heparin to prevent thromboembolic disease according to various regimens.