(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.
Trochanter
Definition:
(n.) One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.
(n.) The third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa.
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) Whereas all extant vertical clingers and leapers share certain femoral traits (i.e., long femur, proximally restricted trochanters, ventrally raised patellar articular surface), Galagidae and Tarsiidae share features of the proximal femur (i.e., cylindrical head, large posterior expansion of articular surface onto the neck) that clearly distinguish them from the specialized leapers of the Malagasy Republic (Indriidae and Lepilemur).
(3) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
(4) To determine whether bone mass is increased in them, bone mineral density (BMD) of the lumbar spine, trochanter, and femoral neck was measured by dual photon absorptiometry in 89 nonobese white and 51 nonobese black women, all of whom were within 30% of their ideal body weight and between the ages of 20 and 50 yr, and in 21 obese white women and 21 obese black women, all of whom weighed 30% on more than their ideal body weight and were in the same age range.
(5) The caudal neurovascular trunk of the space between the gluteus medius and vastus lateralis is situated at a distance of 3 to 5 cm from the greater trochanter.
(6) In the present series, the physis of the greater trochanter showed decreased activity on bone scintigraphy in 16 patients with SCFE and concurrent or developing chondrolysis.
(7) In patients who show neither of these features, lateral displacement of the great trochanter or extensive muscle release may be effective.
(8) In the hips with acetabular protrusion, preoperative values of the force were less than in that the trochanter united and postoperative increase in the abductor force was noted.
(9) Fractures of the femoral head, neck and greater trochanter including physeal separations are common in the growing dog and cat.
(10) The modification includes the utilization of a T-shaped skin incision with large flaps, and osteotomies of the iliac crest, greater trochanter, and anterior superior iliac spine.
(11) During operation the insertion of the gluteal minimus muscle to the trochanter was carefully detached in a way that only the fibres of the gluteus medius remained on the bone.
(12) In Type III there is a posteromedial wall defect involving the lesser trochanter (23 hips).
(13) In addition she had pressure sores over both trochanters and the sacrum.
(14) A case is presented of a rare primary liposarcoma of bone localized to the major trochanter of the left femur of a 52-year-old female.
(15) 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.
(16) In twelve such patients we did an extensive resection of the proximal part of the femur, down to below the lesser trochanter, and constructed a capsular flap across the acetabulum.
(17) The major findings include buttock tenderness extending from the sacrum to the greater trochanter and piriformis tenderness on rectal or pelvic examination.
(18) The most frequent location was around the Trochanter major.
(19) In particular, since Ward's triangle is strongly correlated with the greater trochanter and the femoral neck, it may rationally be excluded from analysis of proximal femoral bone density.
(20) In the normal-weight women, there was a significant negative correlation between BMD and years since menopause at each measurement site except the greater trochanter.