What's the difference between fabella and fabellae?
Fabella
Definition:
(n.) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pathognomonic signs were pain behind the lateral femoral condyle on palpation and compression of the fabella and also on passive extension of the knee.
(2) Ilem said milk from the Jose Fabella Memorial hospital also helps working mothers give their babies breast milk after returning to work.
(3) Radiographic manifestations of the fabella are similar to those observed in osteoarthritis, and so they cannot be utilized in the differential diagnosis of these diseases.
(4) Hundreds of women have their babies at the Jose Fabella Memorial hospital, the busiest maternity institution in Manila, the capital, where more than 12 million people live.
(5) The government sends its physicians and nurses to Fabella Hospital for training in rooming-in and breast feeding.
(6) If all lateral views are obtained with the knee flexed over a standard angle bolster, fabella position is standardized and fabella displacement readily detected without need for measurement.
(8) The fabella, a sesamoid bone in the lateral head of the gastrocnemius muscle occurring in 10% to 30% of individuals, is rarely considered a possible cause of knee dysfunction.
(9) Attention should be given to pathologic changes of the fabella in cases with intermittent posterolateral knee pain and normal examination of the knee, except for tenderness on pressure over the fabella.
(10) Lastly, in sports pathology, one must be able to recognize the painful fabella syndrome (osteochondritis of sesamoid fibrocartilage in lateral head of gastrocnemius), so as not to mistakenly implicate vascular disease.
(11) Normal fabella position does not rule out small effusion or effusion which is confined to the suprapatellar pouch because the knee is extended.
(12) Posterior displacement of the fabella is a reliable sign of synovial effusion or mass which may be applied even when inflammation or post-traumatic edema obscures the extrasynovial fat lines of the knee joint.
(13) She was delivered just before midnight on Sunday amid an explosion of press camera flashes at Manila's Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital.
(14) Excision of the fabella gave quick and lasting relief.
(15) In a review of the literature of various lesions of the fabella, disability related to dislocation seems not to have been previously reported.
(16) The Fabella Syndrome is recognized by a sharp pain, local tenderness, and intensification of pain in the area of the fabella by full extension of the knee.
(17) The most characteristic radiographic patterns are: thickening of the anterior margin of the patella (81.1%); ossifying enthesopathy of supero-anterior margin of patella (68.7%); periosteal new bone formation on the tibial insertion of the cruciate ligaments (47.8%); presence of fabella (41.%); presence of megafabella (22.9%), which may come near the posterior profile of the femur.
(18) The Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, Philippines began its rooming-in policy in 1986 and continues it today.
(19) The accumulated chronic microtrauma of the osteoarthritic fabello femoral joint in this lady especially during the whip-kick of daily breaststroke swimming for over 30 yr, may precipitate a fabella stress fracture.
(20) A 46-year-old man suffered from chondromalacia of the fabella after minor trauma to the back of the knee.
Fabellae
Definition:
(pl. ) of Fabella
Example Sentences:
(1) Pathognomonic signs were pain behind the lateral femoral condyle on palpation and compression of the fabella and also on passive extension of the knee.
(2) Ilem said milk from the Jose Fabella Memorial hospital also helps working mothers give their babies breast milk after returning to work.
(3) Radiographic manifestations of the fabella are similar to those observed in osteoarthritis, and so they cannot be utilized in the differential diagnosis of these diseases.
(4) Hundreds of women have their babies at the Jose Fabella Memorial hospital, the busiest maternity institution in Manila, the capital, where more than 12 million people live.
(5) The government sends its physicians and nurses to Fabella Hospital for training in rooming-in and breast feeding.
(6) If all lateral views are obtained with the knee flexed over a standard angle bolster, fabella position is standardized and fabella displacement readily detected without need for measurement.
(8) The fabella, a sesamoid bone in the lateral head of the gastrocnemius muscle occurring in 10% to 30% of individuals, is rarely considered a possible cause of knee dysfunction.
(9) Attention should be given to pathologic changes of the fabella in cases with intermittent posterolateral knee pain and normal examination of the knee, except for tenderness on pressure over the fabella.
(10) Lastly, in sports pathology, one must be able to recognize the painful fabella syndrome (osteochondritis of sesamoid fibrocartilage in lateral head of gastrocnemius), so as not to mistakenly implicate vascular disease.
(11) Normal fabella position does not rule out small effusion or effusion which is confined to the suprapatellar pouch because the knee is extended.
(12) Posterior displacement of the fabella is a reliable sign of synovial effusion or mass which may be applied even when inflammation or post-traumatic edema obscures the extrasynovial fat lines of the knee joint.
(13) She was delivered just before midnight on Sunday amid an explosion of press camera flashes at Manila's Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital.
(14) Excision of the fabella gave quick and lasting relief.
(15) In a review of the literature of various lesions of the fabella, disability related to dislocation seems not to have been previously reported.
(16) The Fabella Syndrome is recognized by a sharp pain, local tenderness, and intensification of pain in the area of the fabella by full extension of the knee.
(17) The most characteristic radiographic patterns are: thickening of the anterior margin of the patella (81.1%); ossifying enthesopathy of supero-anterior margin of patella (68.7%); periosteal new bone formation on the tibial insertion of the cruciate ligaments (47.8%); presence of fabella (41.%); presence of megafabella (22.9%), which may come near the posterior profile of the femur.
(18) The Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, Philippines began its rooming-in policy in 1986 and continues it today.
(19) The accumulated chronic microtrauma of the osteoarthritic fabello femoral joint in this lady especially during the whip-kick of daily breaststroke swimming for over 30 yr, may precipitate a fabella stress fracture.
(20) A 46-year-old man suffered from chondromalacia of the fabella after minor trauma to the back of the knee.