(n.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
(n.) A needle for sewing up wounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(2) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
(3) Nine patients who had undergone free fibula transfer were reviewed to determine the incidence of donor site complications.
(4) We assessed the function of the posterior malleolus, the anterior tibiofibular ligament, and the fibula with regard to posterior stability of the talus in ten ankles of cadavera.
(5) 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.
(6) In 8 no subsequent procedure was necessary; 2 patients required additional bone grafts to augment the osseous reconstruction; viable fibulas were seen at reoperation.
(7) The biological and biomechanical properties of normal fibulae, fibulae that had had a sham operation, and both vascularized and non-vascularized autogenous grafts were studied in dogs at three months after the operation.
(8) The autogeneic fibula dove-tailed strut graft is favored over an iliac crest bone graft because with multilevel decompression in the cervical spine, it provided structural stability and a high union rate.
(9) In these cases the reposition and the osteosynthesis of the fibula neutralize fairly well also the motive forces acting on the tibial fracture.
(10) A case of acute plastic bowing fractures of both the fibula and tibia in a child is presented.
(11) Also examined were the vertebral column; femur, knee joint, tibia and fibula of the right hindlimb; and the tracheal cartilages.
(12) Cystic fibrosis was noted in the metatarsals on day 14 and in the tibia, fibula and tarsals on day 21 and progressed to become the dominant abnormality by day 35.
(13) Five years after completing adjuvant chemotherapy for osteosarcoma of the fibula, a 20-year-old woman developed an esophageal carcinoma.
(14) We report four patients with unilateral bowing of the lower leg, affecting only the fibula.
(15) We consider them to be bony origins of ligaments: at the sciatic tuber--the bony origin of the sacrotuberal ligament, at the distal fibula--the bony origin of the peroneal compartment of the retinaculum mm extensorum inferius.
(16) Large defects of the tibia can be bridged with autologous cancellous grafts between the remaining fibula and a contralateral tibial cortical graft.
(17) The area of proprioceptive nerve receptors around the distal part of the rat fibula was stripped surgically, and a standard fracture of the fibular shaft was produced.
(18) The usual application of one-third tubular plates to the lateral surface of the distal fibula has certain disadvantages.
(19) We report on 2 male propositi, their mothers, and a maternal aunt with a new skeletal dysplasia associated with a unique pattern of digital malformation, variable mild short stature, and mild bowleg with proximal overgrowth of the fibula.
(20) The method used most in the operative technique is the correction of valgus deviation at the head of the tibia after osteotomy of the fibula with stabilization with a fixateur externe.
Peroneal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.
Example Sentences:
(1) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(2) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(3) The etiology, diagnosis and surgical treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis of the peroneal tendons is presented.
(4) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
(5) Peroneal nerve traction does not result in abnormalities of the dorsalis pedis pulse, pain on passive muscle stretch or a tense anterior tibial compartment.
(6) A case report of acute peroneal compartment syndrome occurring in a 25-year-old male softball player is presented, in which neuropraxia of the common peroneal nerve occurred within 8 hr after onset and in which complete recovery occurred after fasciotomy was done 13 hr after onset of symptoms.
(7) Muscles were transected ("cut muscle") to prevent contraction after peroneal nerve stimulation.
(8) Twelve adult rhesus monkeys underwent bilateral resection of a portion of the peroneal nerve followed by placement of autogenous sural nerve interposition fascicular grafts.
(9) "As to the origins of this practice, I'm not certain, but the exuberance of Argentina's public displays of emotion go a long way, since the descamisados of Peron in the 1940s," he adds.
(10) The position of center of pressure is highly correlated to the position of the ankle and peroneal muscle activity.
(11) The peroneal and posterior tibial motor nerve-conduction velocities were inversely related to height (P less than .05 for both).
(12) A. Pyriformis and extensor longus digiti IV muscles of Rana temporaria were denervated by cutting the sciatic or peroneal nerve at various distances from the muscles.
(13) The peroneal and sural nerves were stimulated in an exposed hindlimb preparation; the ipsilateral vagus was stimulated at the cervical level.
(14) The peroneal artery also gave collaterals to form the dorsalis pedis and the plantar arteries.
(15) Stimulation of the neural plaque produced cortical responses in five of the seven but cortical responses with long latencies could be obtained from peroneal nerve stimulation in only two of the seven patients.
(16) We consider them to be bony origins of ligaments: at the sciatic tuber--the bony origin of the sacrotuberal ligament, at the distal fibula--the bony origin of the peroneal compartment of the retinaculum mm extensorum inferius.
(17) Orthodromic conduction in motor fibres and F wave were analysed in the median, ulnar, peroneal and tibial nerves in groups of 30 subjects: one control and one comprising patients with chronic alcoholism without detectable clinically damage to the peripheral nervous system.
(18) Electrical stimulation of the superficial peroneal nerve that activates C fibers produces a segmental reflex in the unanesthetized decerebrate-spinal cat (Koll, Hasse, Schutz and Muhlberg, 1963).
(19) Conduction changes were found in 21 peroneal nerves, 15 ulnar nerves, 12 median nerves, 7 tibial nerves and 2 radial nerves.