(n.) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
(n.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
(n.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
Example Sentences:
(1) One developed recurrent dislocation of the shoulder.
(2) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(3) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(4) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(5) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.
(6) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(7) Dislocation of the endoprosthesis was found in the 15 hands with unimproved abduction.
(8) Either reagent dislocates FAD from the holoenzyme, leaving a characteristic mercaptide derivative of the apoenzyme.
(9) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(10) The authors' review of the literature did not reveal a similar case involving a dislocation of the first and second metatarsophalangeal joints.
(11) Ten patients gave a family history of recurrent dislocation of the patella and seven patients showed generalised joint laxity.
(12) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
(13) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.
(14) While acromioclavicular joint injury is not uncommon, a complete posterior dislocation in which the distal clavicle penetrates and is entrapped by the trapezius muscle is among the most rare.
(15) 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.
(16) Brachial artery rupture is the usual vascular injury associated with a compound elbow dislocation.
(17) This fracture was isolated in one case, being in the other six cases combined with injuries, either to acromioclavicular dislocation or to fracture of the superior glenoid cavity disorder.
(18) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
(19) Hypertension consequent upon increasing brain edema, and intercerebral pressure gradient which is the cause of transverse dislocation diminish with the use of a method which provides for hydrodynamic equilibrium.
(20) A case of simultaneous bilateral traumatic dislocation of the hip is reported.
Lattice
Definition:
(n.) Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.
(n.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.
(v. i.) To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers.
(v. i.) To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window.
Example Sentences:
(1) HTBE fibronectin production may contribute to directed migration because fibronectin, added to the upper lattice, reproduced a portion of the directed migration seen in coculture.
(2) Thresholds were measured for detecting perturbations in a regular lattice of dots by modulating local dot density, local dot luminance, or some combination of the two.
(3) In addition to rapid motions, slow motions were detected by 1H spin-lattice relaxation time in the rotating frame (TH1 rho) and cross-polarization time (TCH), together with data from static spectra, indicating that the aliphatic portion of the detergent interacts more strongly with hydrophobic protein surfaces than do the polar heads.
(4) In addition, the spin lattice relaxation time of the cytoplasmic Cs resonance was approx.
(5) Equilibrium statistical mechanics is much concerned with problems involving intermolecularinteractions, either in lattices or in pure fluids or solutions.
(6) It is shown that a cluster of polarized lattice ions is detectable in images of polar-glass BaxK2-xFexTi6-xO13 (x greater than or equal to 1.2).
(7) In the context of a simplified diamond lattice model of a six-member, Greek key beta-barrel protein that is closely related in topology to plastocyanin, the nature of the folding and unfolding pathways have been investigated using dynamic Monte Carlo techniques.
(8) Given that lattice constraints strongly inhibit large-scale conformational changes these results allow us to identify the average solution structure with the 'open' conformer determined crystallographically.
(9) An algorithm is implemented to determine the form and phase shift for inconsistent type II quadrupoles for any space group having glide or screw-axis translations which are not a consequence of lattice centering.
(10) Spin-spin relaxation time (T2), spin-lattice relaxation time (T1), and spin-lattice relaxation time in the rotating frame (T1p) of water protons in solutions of bacteriophage T2 were studied by pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance.
(11) When the higher concentrations of Ba2+, Sr2+, and Ca2+ were used, the lattice constants were not shortened.
(12) The lattice reinforces the cylindrical shape of the cell and permits limited changes in length.
(13) These results indicate that at 24 h postmortem the extra fluid released from PSE pork already has been lost from the myofilament lattice and is awaiting release from compartments downstream such as interfiber and interfascicular spaces.
(14) One lattice was trigonal, as in purple membrane, and showed a high-resolution electron diffraction pattern from glucose-sustained patches.
(15) Interfiber area was correlated negatively with filament lattice area and WHC, but no significant correlation was found between filament lattice area and WHC.
(16) A mathematical model is developed whereby the longitudinal magnetization of phosphocreatine (PC), ATP, Pi, and total phosphate (PT) can be calculated on the basis of assumed chemical rate constants (kappa i) and spin lattice relaxation times of the muscle PC in equilibrium ATP in equilibrium Pi exchange system.
(17) In the orthorhombic crystal lattice, tRNA(Asp) molecules are associated by anticodon-anticodon interactions through a two-fold symmetry axis.
(18) Type I beads: at 3 days, were surrounded by multinucleated giant cells; by 4 days, patches of bead-associated new bone were present along with giant cells; after 1 week, occasional bead-associated multinucleated cells were seen, but now most beads were surrounded by new intramedullary bone, forming an extensive bead-bone lattice.
(19) Dual aspects, crystallite size and lattice imperfection related to the crystallinity were analyzed by the process of Variance and Fourier analysis based on the X-ray diffraction line profiles.
(20) This paper documents our initial experience with a laser indirect ophthalmoscope used successfully in the retinal photocoagulation of patients with diabetic retinopathy, venous occlusions, peripheral retinal holes and lattice degenerations and in post-vitrectomy cases.