(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.
(7) A program of IUD insertions by paramedics and physicians was undertaken at the José Fabella Memorial Hospital.
(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.
Sabella
Definition:
(n.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.
Example Sentences:
(1) Higuaín was not fully fit which, with Rodrigo Palacio out with a calf injury, perhaps in part explained why Alejandro Sabella had made the change.
(2) He is different.” Sabella had admitted that his team were, naturally enough, dependent on Messi after two wonderful goals secured two victories for a team that had performed poorly.
(3) His appraisal of Argentina’s current squad is succinct: “Alejandro [Sabella]has shown he isn’t closed in on a single idea of how to play, having tried many variables and combinations,” he says.
(4) We can’t make two steps when we have to make one,” said Sabella.
(5) Argentina were solid rather than spectacular, which is Sabella’s way, but it still felt rather anti-climactic given both the potential of their forward line and the narrative of the tournament so far.
(6) Sabella was a devotee of 5-3-2 when he led Estudiantes to the title and the Copa Libertadores but the danger of using three central defenders against a lone centre-forward is that, with two spare men, one is left redundant.
(7) Angel Di Maria and Sergio Aguero are both fit for the bench, but Sabella is taking no risks, you know how he rolls.
(8) I have great admiration for them,” said Sabella of Germany, who hammered Brazil 7-1 in the other semi-final on Tuesday.
(9) Now Alejandro Sabella’s side can truly contemplate success in their bitter rivals’ back yard and a first World Cup win since 1986.
(10) The final 23 players in Argentina’s World Cup squad were announced on the eve of our meeting, and many a conversation ensued about a lack of “pure backs” in Sabella’s selection.
(11) The Germans will have benefited from an extra day’s rest ahead of that match with Sabella, whose side had endured their second period of extra-time of the finals, admitting some of his players were “sore, beaten, tired as a result of a war”.
(12) June 18, 2014 Sivan John (@SivanJohn) So for the first time in #WorldCup2014 , Alejandro Sabella has all 23 #ARG players available for selection in #IRN on their mind next.
(13) He’s been in another two World Cups and been out in the quarter-finals but now he has a chance to win it.” Sabella’s agent, Eugenio López, told FM Delta in Argentina that the former Sheffield United player would step down after the tournament in Brazil.
(14) It was a lesson for us, the Brazil game.” As tens of thousands of Argentinians were expected to flood into Rio, many setting up camp in the city’s iconic Sambadrome, the Manchester City full-back said that Sabella’s side would take inspiration from the massive patriotic support.
(15) Defensively, they were not convincing and Sergio Agüero departed early with what Sabella said was a muscular problem that would be assessed on Thursday, although Ezequiel Lavezzi played well in his absence.
(16) Thus, arginine kinase from Sabella muscle, of molecular weight 150 000, consists of four similar polypeptide chains, but possesses only two substrate binding sites per tetrameric molecule.
(17) Sabella has been much concerned with Argentina’s weakness on the flanks to the counterattack, perhaps a little too much here as, despite 73% possession in the first half, Zabaleta and Rojo failed to stretch a deep Iranian defence out wide.
(18) His diplomatic nature means he consistently backs Sabella’s decisions publicly.
(19) As Alejandro Sabella’s agent revealed to an Argentinian radio station that he planned to step down after the World Cup final, Zabaleta vowed to ensure their coach went out on a high against Germany .
(20) Germany are always a very difficult hurdle to overcome, and even more so when they’ve had the extra day and, indeed, could rein themselves in for the second half last night,” said Sabella, referring to Joachim Löw’s side’s 7-1 thrashing of Brazil when the contest had effectively been settled by the break.