What's the difference between distal and tarsometatarsus?
Distal
Definition:
(a.) Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle
(a.) Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(3) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(4) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
(5) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(6) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
(7) Investigations showed that compliance is reduced in a distal to proximal direction.
(8) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(9) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
(10) SPRs were elicited either by stimulating the reticular formation or the distal end of the median nerve.
(11) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(12) In conclusion, the ability of distal tubules to establish a significant pH gradient will contribute to the titration of non bicarbonate buffers, i.e., to titratable acid formation.
(13) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(14) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(15) There is approximately a 25% decrease in aggregation from regions of the rib distal to the metaphyseal-growth plate junction (69%) to the region proximal to it (50%).
(16) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(17) 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.
(18) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
(19) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(20) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
Tarsometatarsus
Definition:
(n.) The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The structural and mechanical properties of the runners' tarsometatarsus bones were compared with sedentary age-matched controls at 8 and 12 wk of age.
(2) A significantly greater proportion of growth plates of the tarsometatarsus was closed in the control as compared to the lame turkeys.
(3) The vascular pattern was modified at different stages of growth and there were anastomoses between epiphyseal vascular canals in the proximal tarsometatarsus.
(4) Two groups, each of 25 Hubbard broiler chicks, were individually raised in cages for 49 d. The tarsometatarsus length at 1-d old and finishing point, food utilisation and finishing body weight were recorded and statistically analysed.
(5) When the leg buds from chick embryos at stages 17-23 were cultured as organ cultures in F12 medium, which contained chick serum and an extract of chick embryos, leg cartilage structures developed that included pelvic girdle, femur, tibiofibula, and tarsometatarsus.
(6) Muscles related to the third rotated factor flex the tarsometatarsus of flex more digits simultaneously, while muscles related to the second rotated factor flex a single digit or extend the tarsometatarus.
(7) Body weight, width, and length of the tarsometatarsus, presence of tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) lesions, pancreas weight, and plasma glucose did not differ between lame and control turkeys.
(8) The vascular morphology of the proximal femur, tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus was studied in growing broiler chicks.
(9) The growth rates of each extremity of the tibiotarsus (TibT) and tarsometatarsus (TMT) bones and of a phalangeal bone were measured in Rhode Island red chicks.
(10) Epidermal-dermal recombinations were carried out by exchanging normal tissues with those treated with BrdU in the anterior tarsometatarsus.
(11) In the non-load-bearing limb lesions most frequently occurred in the bone extremities of the distal tibiotarsus and proximal tarsometatarsus.
(12) The origin and nature of vascular canals in the distal tibiotarsus and proximal tarsometatarsus of the fowl have been described.
(13) Growth of body mass, femur, tibiotarsus, and tarsometatarsus length as well as the diameter of muscle fibers in the M. pectoralis were measured in (Large White) female turkeys between birth and day 224.
(14) 99% of growth had occurred in the tarsometatarsus length on day 109, femur length on day 117, tibiotarsus length on day 138, diameter of muscle fibers on day 166, and the body mass on day 231.
(15) This abnormal cartilage, which is a mass of unmineralized, unvascularized cartilage found in the proximal metaphysis of the tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus, was compared with normal epiphyseal growth plate and hypertrophic cartilage obtained from day-old embryonic cone.
(16) Dyschondroplasia was found not only in the proximal tibia but also in the distal tibia, proximal tarsometatarsus, proximal and distal femur, and to some extent also in the costochondral junction.
(17) Therefore, we examined exercise-related remodelling and in vivo strains in the tarsometatarsus (TMT) of three groups of adult (post-physial closure) White Leghorn roosters: basal control (30 weeks of age), age-matched control (39 weeks) and exercise (39 weeks).
(18) The pattern of metaphyseal vessels in the distal tibiotarsus and proximal tarsometatarsus was altered in some young chicks.
(19) Animals were sacrificed at 6 weeks of age and Ossa tarsalia articular cartilage specimens, as well as the proximal end of tarsometatarsus were dissected from the tibial metatarsal joint, a major weight-bearing site.
(20) Compensatory growth did not affect the absolute length or width of the tarsometatarsus or testes weights at 20 wk of age.