(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.
Limb
Definition:
(n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
(n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
(n.) A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
(n.) An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
(v. t.) To supply with limbs.
(v. t.) To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
(n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.
(n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
(n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
(n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(2) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(3) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(4) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(5) The most frequent source of the pulmonary circulation thromboembolism was the lower limb veins.
(6) No case of oromandibular-limb abnormality was seen in the CVS groups, but 1 child in the AC group had aplasia of the right hand.
(7) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(8) Of these, 12 had radiation-induced neurologic complications which, in 5 instances, consisted of persisting, wholly or partially disabling paresis in the lower limbs.
(9) The rate of removal of exogenous PGE2 in the hind limb circulation was not influenced by HC, suggesting that the diminution of PG release by HC results from the suppression of PG generation rather than from the enhancement of degradation.
(10) Full length or multifocal uptake was seen in six patients, all of whom eventually required graft excision with two limbs surviving, and one death.
(11) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
(12) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
(13) Seventy-one patients with 80 lower limbs clinically suspected of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) were investigated by both Doppler ultrasound and venography.
(14) Piretanide blocks the Na+ 2Cl- K+ cotransporter protein in the thick ascending limb (TAL) of the loop of Henle reversibly.
(15) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
(16) The myogenic potential of chick limb mesenchyme from stages 18-25 was assessed by micromass culture under conditions conductive to myogenesis, and was measured as the proportion of differentiated (muscle myosin-positive) mononucleated cells detected.
(17) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
(18) High levels of both enzymes were reached noticeably earlier during development in PCT and PST than in medullary thick ascending limb, which emphasizes metabolic heterogeneity of developing rat kidney nephron.
(19) Forty-eight reinterventions in 34 limbs were required to restore or maintain graft patency in thrombosed or failing grafts.
(20) Stimulation of nerves in the limbs evoked EPSPs and JPSPs in 201 of 204 tested LRN neurones.