(a.) Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sixty-two (73 per cent) of the legs, the nerve coursed within the lateral muscle compartment from its origin to its exit through the crural fascia.
(2) The demonstration of the distal run-off, following femoro-crural bypass, presented a problem; in eight cases this could not be achieved because of technical difficulties.
(3) These results demonstrate that a difference in myosin heavy chain isoforms and oxidative capacity exists between the costal and crural regions of the rat diaphragm.
(4) The transformations described are interpreted as a response of the immune system to the nerve cut, and as a result of it--denervation of the crural tissues, disturbance of their nervous trophic, as well as--to transplantation of the allogeneic nervous trunk.
(5) Histology of seven clinically diagnosed cases of Martorell's ulcer was compared with that of twenty-seven crural ulcers of venous origin.
(6) We propose that the determination of the "talo-crural angle" on the uninjured side will serve as a guide for the adequate closed reduction of the fractured ankle, if it is reduced to within 2 degrees of the "talo-crural angle" of the uninjured side.
(7) Tidal shortening will increase the force output of costal while decreasing that of the crural diaphragm.
(8) Bipolar stainless steel wire electrodes were placed unilaterally into the costal and crural portions of the diaphragm and into the parasternal intercostal muscle in the second or third intercostal space.
(9) Two weeks later a crural ulcer developed at the distal excision site.
(10) Operations performed included the transthoracic Collis-Nissen procedure (59), Collis-Belsey repair (14), Nissen fundoplication (one), repair of acute postoperative paraesophageal hernia (one), division of obstructing crural suture (one), and esophageal resection (23).
(11) It is based on extensive cadaver dissections which demonstrate that a convex domal segment plus a sharp domal segment-lateral crural drop-off are key determinants of a refined tip.
(12) The average somatic diameter of ganglion cells projecting to the sartorius muscle was significantly smaller than that of cells projecting to the lateral crural nerve.
(13) Similarly, no age-related differences existed (P greater than 0.05) in the crural diaphragm in lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) or glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity.
(14) Electromyographic (EMG) activity and tidal shortening of the costal and crural segments of the diaphragm and of the external intercostal were recorded during hyperoxic CO2 rebreathing in 12 anesthetized dogs.
(15) When Pdi was increased to 128, 191, 287 and 421% of the value measured during unobstructed breathing, costal and crural fc rose significantly in all animals because of an increase in the power of high-frequency components and a decline in the power of low-frequency components.
(16) We conclude that the crural region of the rat diaphragm is significantly lower in oxidative capacity than all the costal regions.
(17) The oxidative capacity and cross-sectional area of muscle fibers were compared between the costal and crural regions of the cat diaphragm and across the abdominal-thoracic extent of the muscle.
(18) The transplant respected the integrity of the antero-superior-iliac-spine and the crural arch.
(19) Iv DSA provided good information for the solution of therapeutic and tactical problems in pelvic, femoral and popliteal arterial lesions but in 16% of the cases it gave no opportunity to assess the status of the crural arteries.
(20) We present follow-up of up to 8 years in a series of 80 consecutive reconstructions to the distal crural vessels using human umbilical vein with an adjuvant AVF.
Peroneal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.
Example Sentences:
(1) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(2) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(3) The etiology, diagnosis and surgical treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis of the peroneal tendons is presented.
(4) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
(5) Peroneal nerve traction does not result in abnormalities of the dorsalis pedis pulse, pain on passive muscle stretch or a tense anterior tibial compartment.
(6) A case report of acute peroneal compartment syndrome occurring in a 25-year-old male softball player is presented, in which neuropraxia of the common peroneal nerve occurred within 8 hr after onset and in which complete recovery occurred after fasciotomy was done 13 hr after onset of symptoms.
(7) Muscles were transected ("cut muscle") to prevent contraction after peroneal nerve stimulation.
(8) Twelve adult rhesus monkeys underwent bilateral resection of a portion of the peroneal nerve followed by placement of autogenous sural nerve interposition fascicular grafts.
(9) "As to the origins of this practice, I'm not certain, but the exuberance of Argentina's public displays of emotion go a long way, since the descamisados of Peron in the 1940s," he adds.
(10) The position of center of pressure is highly correlated to the position of the ankle and peroneal muscle activity.
(11) The peroneal and posterior tibial motor nerve-conduction velocities were inversely related to height (P less than .05 for both).
(12) A. Pyriformis and extensor longus digiti IV muscles of Rana temporaria were denervated by cutting the sciatic or peroneal nerve at various distances from the muscles.
(13) The peroneal and sural nerves were stimulated in an exposed hindlimb preparation; the ipsilateral vagus was stimulated at the cervical level.
(14) The peroneal artery also gave collaterals to form the dorsalis pedis and the plantar arteries.
(15) Stimulation of the neural plaque produced cortical responses in five of the seven but cortical responses with long latencies could be obtained from peroneal nerve stimulation in only two of the seven patients.
(16) We consider them to be bony origins of ligaments: at the sciatic tuber--the bony origin of the sacrotuberal ligament, at the distal fibula--the bony origin of the peroneal compartment of the retinaculum mm extensorum inferius.
(17) Orthodromic conduction in motor fibres and F wave were analysed in the median, ulnar, peroneal and tibial nerves in groups of 30 subjects: one control and one comprising patients with chronic alcoholism without detectable clinically damage to the peripheral nervous system.
(18) Electrical stimulation of the superficial peroneal nerve that activates C fibers produces a segmental reflex in the unanesthetized decerebrate-spinal cat (Koll, Hasse, Schutz and Muhlberg, 1963).
(19) Conduction changes were found in 21 peroneal nerves, 15 ulnar nerves, 12 median nerves, 7 tibial nerves and 2 radial nerves.