(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.
Sesamoid
Definition:
(a.) Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal.
(n.) A sesamoid bone or cartilage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Axial sesamoid injury appeared to be an indication of severe fetlock trauma due to condylar fracture.
(2) Operative treatment was used 22 times (5 sesamoid fractures, 5 midtibial fractures, 5 metatarsal V base fractures, 3 tarsal navicular fractures, 3 olecranon fractures, and 1 proximal tibial shaft fracture).
(3) That is, the first metatarsal head moves within a stable support comprised of the base of the proximal phalanx, the sesamoids, soft tissue, and muscle tendons.
(4) One-hundred patients with anterior foot pain were examined by tangential sesamoid x-rays and some by bone scan.
(5) We favor the opinion that idiopathic aseptic necrosis of the sesamoid one of the big toe in adults is seldom a primary condition and that other predisposing factors should be taken into consideration.
(6) The sesamoid region has a rich pathology, that is often poorly understood since it is inadequately investigated.
(7) Objective measurement showed that the range of movement of the metatarsophalangeal joint was better maintained after osteotomy, as was the relationship of the sesamoid bones to the head of the first metatarsal.
(8) Subcutaneous rupture of the peroneus longus tendon occurring through a fracture of the os peroneum sesamoid in the foot, confirmed at surgery, is a rare injury, possibly with only one previously reported case.
(9) The other complications included recurrence of the hallux valgus in two feet, pain under a fibular sesamoid in one foot, and a tailor's bunion that was unrelated to the operation in one foot.
(10) The most significantly retarded sites were the late-forming ossifications (epiphyses, sesamoids, and tuberosites).
(11) The source of a previously described radiolucent crescent in the flexor cortex of the distal sesamoid (navicular) bone on the palmaro45 degrees proximal-palmarodistal oblique (Pa45 degrees Pr-PaDio) clinical radiographic projection was investigated in 48 forelimb navicular bones from 24 Thoroughbreds by use of high-detail radiography and x-ray computed tomography (CT).
(12) The anatomy, function, and disorders of the hallucal sesamoids show that the diagnosis and current concept of management are based on the individual patient's problems.
(13) Our study points to the role of the flexor and extensor carpi ulnaris muscles in the stability of the internal carpus, confirming that the pisiform is a sesamoid bone in the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon.
(14) The origin and course of the collateral sesamoidean (suspensory navicular) ligament of the horse and ass and its attachment to the distal sesamoid bone were studied by means of dissection.
(15) Presented is information concerning the internal and external structural components of a bipartite metatarsal sesamoidal joint, which may inherently lead it to symptomatology.
(16) Congenital absence of the tibial sesamoid is a rare condition that has been infrequently reported in the podiatric literature.
(17) The articular interface between the radial sesamoid and the radial condyle of the metacarpal head, which is the radial subsesamoid joint, is the most frequently involved area of abnormality in the metacarpophalangeal joint complex.
(18) The authors also review the literature on pseudomonas osteomyelitis secondary to puncture wounds and the development of hallux hammer toe after removal of the involved sesamoid bones.
(19) The sesamoids generally appear as small ovoid bones adjacent to articulations or at sites where tendons are angled about osseous surfaces.
(20) Some morphological characteristics could apparently be related to specific modes of locomotion, namely the shape, more or less oblong, pear-like or round, according to genera or digits, and the possible fusion of the 2 sesamoid bones of the same digit to form a unique ossified structure.