(1) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(3) The variations of the elastic properties and the density around the circumference of both the immature osteopetrotic femur and the unaffected femur were found to be similar to those previously measured on normal adult bovine femora.
(4) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
(5) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
(6) An increased number of femora showed hypertrophy with normal bone texture.
(7) Material effects included lower %ash (approximately 2%) in the femora and tibiae as well as in the humeri of suspended mice compared to controls.
(8) I have demonstrated on the femora of rabbits that the consequence of progressive dynamization versus the current unchanging stability of fracture fixation was a more rapid healing.
(9) We examined both femora, both tibiae, and the fourth lumbar vertebra by computed x-ray densitometry on day 7 postoperatively.
(10) The intact femora were first incubated with collagenase to obtain periosteal cells.
(11) Two different assays were used: (1) an in vitro clonogenic assay for fibroblast precursor cells (CFU-F) and (2) subcutaneous grafting of femora or spleens.
(12) This study indicates that rigid intramedullary nails cause strain shielding at the anterior, mid-diaphyseal surface of rat femora 12 weeks after insertion.
(13) Twenty-two canine femora were injected with PMMA cement at pressures varying between 0.2 and 1.3 MPa.
(14) The femora were tested in torsion, bending, and axial loading to failure.
(15) Three femoral components (one cemented and one uncemented straight-stem Muller and one uncemented Anatomic Medullary Locking) were placed into cadaveric or commercially available plastic femora to establish that rotation of the femur can simulate changes in femoral component alignment on the anteroposterior radiograph.
(16) Bone density and mineral content of the femora were significantly decreased in ovariectomized mice compared with intact control animals.
(17) After insertion of Newman's pins, Smith-Petersen nails and compression hip screws into human cadaveric proximal femora, the area of trabecular damage was measured.
(18) The femoral anteversion in 20 adult dried femora and 40 femora in 20 children was measured by the Magilligan method, the authors' method and the conventional CT method.
(19) There were 13 breakages in the locking nails in femora and none in tibiae.
(20) A partial transverse osteotomy of the midshaft of both femora was then performed.
Remora
Definition:
(n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance.
(n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.
(n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.
Example Sentences:
(1) He’s the ultimate Gary Stu character: a billionaire beholden to no one and able to abuse every disingenuous and pettifogging remora latched headfirst on the nation and sucking upward.
(2) Gills of three remoras, Echeneis naucrates L., from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia had few adults but many attached egg bundles of the monogenean, Dionchus remorae.
(3) Egg attachment by D. remorae to their remora hosts seems well adapted to successful larval invasion of fish which exhibit phoresy.
(4) Without the existence of organic causes of remora in our case the presence of alterations in his behavior determined by the anxiety caused by his military duties might be the catalyst of the atypical ingestion.