What's the difference between femur and trochanteric?
Femur
Definition:
(n.) The thigh bone.
(n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.
Example Sentences:
(1) The incidence of femur fracture in non-cemented hip arthroplasty has been reported to be between 4.1% and 27.8%.
(2) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(3) has been measured in 67 consective cases of fracture of the proximal femur.
(4) Implants and femurs from both Cl2MBP groups had a higher ash content than controls, but uptake of the two isotopes was not affected.
(5) The biomechanical strength of femur of adult rats was tested after immobilization for 9 weeks and remobilization for 12 weeks of 1 hind leg.
(6) 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.
(7) The rib was the most frequent site of the former; the distal femur, of the latter.
(8) A woman in labor and not wearing a seat belt sustained multiple fractures of the pelvis and femur while in an automobile accident.
(9) Whereas all extant vertical clingers and leapers share certain femoral traits (i.e., long femur, proximally restricted trochanters, ventrally raised patellar articular surface), Galagidae and Tarsiidae share features of the proximal femur (i.e., cylindrical head, large posterior expansion of articular surface onto the neck) that clearly distinguish them from the specialized leapers of the Malagasy Republic (Indriidae and Lepilemur).
(10) The ceramic sections, approximately 15.3 mg, were implanted into both proximal femurs of 10 male and 10 female albino SW rats.
(11) We successfully applied it in the treatment of eight fractures of the shafts of the femur or tibia which would not unite because of infection, soft tissue interposition or gross incongruity of fragments.
(12) For stage III of the disease different osteotomies of the proximal femur are recommended.
(13) In 13 growing pigs (mini-pigs) all veins draining the head of femur were ligated intra-abdominally.
(14) Changes in radiostrontium clearance (SrC) and bone formation (tetracycline labeling) were observed in the femurs of skeletally mature dogs following the various operative steps involved in bone screw fixation.
(15) Furthermore, the femurs of the CT-deficient rats were narrower at midshaft and shorter, indicating reduced bone growth.
(16) This revision rod, used temporarily, is interlocked in the distal healthy part of the femur.
(17) However, cerclage wiring has a statistically significant effect (p less than 0.025) on the ability of the fractured femur to withstand increased load.
(18) Four methyl methacrylate bone substitutes were investigated in bilateral multiple bone defects in the femurs of five rhesus monkeys and five mongrel dogs.
(19) Thyroxine complementation in TX or TPTX mothers induced a normalization of the fetal percentage of ash in both cases; a trend towards an increased value was observed in the percentage of ash of fetal femurs.
(20) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
Trochanteric
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(2) A significant symmetry (trochanteric-trochanteric or cervical-cervical) was found between the first and the second hip fractures (69 per cent).
(3) Closure is accomplished by suture of soft tissues and reattachment of the posterior trochanteric fragment with bone screws.
(4) From mecnanical considerations it is recommended that a steep placement of the nail-plate is advantageous in osteosynthesis of unstable trochanteric fractures without medial support.
(5) In attempt to standardize an experimental model for biomechanical studies of unstable trochanteric fractures, acrylic models of the proximal femur were investigated by the photoelastic technique.
(6) A randomized prospective controlled trial of 155 patients with trochanteric fractures compared the AO dynamic hip screw and the Jewett nail plate.
(7) Both cervical and trochanteric features occurred significantly more often on the hemiplegic side.
(8) These included non-union at the trochanteric fracture, protruding pin, partial destruction of the femoral head, subcapital fracture of the femoral neck, and avascular necrosis of the femoral head.
(9) The trochanteric bursa is anatomically quite susceptible to traumatic injury.
(10) Between 1976 and 1987 at the Surgical Department of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 671 fractures of the trochanteric region of the femur were treated by Ender nailing.
(11) The purpose of this case report is to 1) briefly describe the traditional above-knee (AK) quadrilateral socket, 2) describe the contoured adducted trochanteric-controlled alignment method (CAT-CAM) socket, 3) describe the management of a patient with a temporary CAT-CAM prosthesis, and 4) explain how the CAT-CAM prosthesis approach has resolved a medically complex clinical problem.
(12) Bone mineral content (BMC) of the lumbar spine (L2-L4), femoral neck, Ward's triangle and the trochanteric region was measured in 52 consecutive patients on maintenance haemodialysis.
(13) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
(14) The operation was done using femoral components of contemporary design, a trochanteric osteotomy, a cement gun, and a PMMA femoral plug.
(15) VO2 was obtained for 10 women bicycling on rollers at 3 saddle heights (SH), 95, 100 and 105% trochanteric height.
(16) Also, improved functional results without trochanteric osteotomy were noted.
(17) Otherwise, a trochanteric arthroplasty seems the procedure of choice followed by a varus osteotomy if there is progressive subluxation.
(18) Thirty-one children with trochanteric overgrowth who had secondary pelvic instability (Trendelenburg sign) were studied and underwent a total of 33 GTA procedures.
(19) The acetabular roof was reconstructed by bone graft in 13 hips, and trochanteric osteotomy was done in 18 hips.
(20) These women were between 58 and 62 years old when the first radiogram was made, and all sustained cervical or trochanteric fracture of the upper end of the femur on an average of 14 years later.