What's the difference between deltoid and dentoid?
Deltoid
Definition:
(a.) Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-one patients received 4.5 mg. per kilogram of intramuscular lidocaine and 25 patients received placebo in the deltoid muscle within 14 hours of the onset of symptoms.
(2) They were 102 males and 208 females which, on the basis of previous criteria, were inoculated with plasmatic vaccine (MSD) in the deltoid muscle.
(3) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
(4) There was a high correlation between the percentage of type I fibers and the citrate synthase activity within the vastus lateralis (r = .760) and deltoid (r = .610) (P less than 0.05) but not the gastrocnemius (r = .200).
(5) Deltoid muscle biopsy documented scattered basophilic regenerating myofibers and focal atrophic fibers with focal increases of endomysial connective tissue, small endomysial foci of inflammatory cells, and occasional perimysial, perivenular lymphocytic infiltrates.
(6) The nasal reconstruction in 8 patients and cheek reconstruction in 1 using a free flap from the deltoid region has been successfully undertaken in our department since August 1987.
(7) At least eight centimeters of the posterior aspect of the proximal region of the humeral diaphyseal cortex can be exposed through the interval between the lateral head of the triceps and the deltoid muscle.
(8) The deltoid muscles of the same patients had a rather even mixture of type I and II fibers.
(9) Two cases of winged scapulae due to fibrosis of the deltoid muscle are reported.
(10) The size of the peaks led to estimates of the underlying excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSP) amplitude of 5.5 mV for the deltoid and 2.2 mV for the pectoralis motor units.
(11) Signal amplitude increased in the trapezius, the deltoid and the infraspinatus, but was constant in the biceps brachii.
(12) A lightweight fiberglass spica has proven to be useful after repair of the deltoid origin, repair of complete rupture of the rotator cuff, and shoulder arthrodesis.
(13) The electromyograms produced by the prime mover muscles (sternal portion of pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, long head of triceps brachii) achieved maximal activation at the commencement of the ascent phase of the lift and maintained this level essentially unchanged throughout the upward movement of the bar.
(14) A decrement of the proximal muscles at rest was demonstrated in 116 (80%) of the patients and the deltoid muscle was most sensitive.
(15) It is suggested that a probable factor determining the differences of the enzyme activities of glycogenolysis, glycolysis and alpha-glycerophosphate oxidation between brachial biceps, deltoid and anterior tibial muscle, might be the pattern of impulse activity in the motor nerves of these muscles.
(16) Samples from the deltoid and the vastus lateralis muscles from 126 subjects, aged 20-80 years, were studied by light microscopy.
(17) In this preliminary report, two groups of children were vaccinated with subcutaneous BCG, one on the deltoid area and the other one on the area between the spine and the scapula.
(18) The possible causes of the deeply decreased enzyme activities of glycogenolysis, glycolysis and alpha-glycerophosphate oxidation, as well as the causes of the unchanged oxidative enzyme activities and of the increased hexokinase activity after denervation in the human brachial biceps, deltoid and anterior tibial muscle, are discussed.
(19) Postoperative function and muscular strength of the shoulder joint were studied in five patients who had undergone extirpation of the deltoid muscle because of a soft tissue tumor.
(20) Deltoid, biceps brachii and quadriceps femoris muscles are mostly used and specimens are usually obtained by an open biopsy.