(n.) The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.
(n.) That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was the same two-step approach, but this time he delayed a fraction and, with the instep of his right boot, produced a gentle chip that looped on to the underside of the bar and came down a foot or so inside the goal line before spinning back out.
(2) In one case pretibial myxoedema was localized on the external surface of the legs down to insteps.
(3) The instep of the foot is an excellent donor site for split-thickness skin grafts to cover soft tissue defects of the palm and digits.
(4) The instep neurovascular flap, based on the medial plantar artery and innervated by the medial plantar nerve, is in our opinion the treatment of choice for resurfacing heel skin defects.
(5) Heel defects in seven of them were corrected by the instep island flap.
(6) The pedicled flaps most commonly used are the instep island flap, the lateral supra-malleolar flap and the cross-leg flap.
(7) The participation of small-diameter afferent fibres in the microcirculatory haemodynamics of cutaneous tissue was examined by studies on the effects of antidromic stimulation of primary afferent neurones on cutaneous blood flow (CBF) and tachykinin release into the subcutaneous space in the instep of the hind paw of rats.
(8) No effect was found for the control group or the group who viewed the soccer-instep videotape.
(9) A case of a 38-year-old smoker male who had vasoconstriction and instep claudication of the right hand, is presented.
(10) He sat me on the instep of his foot, and I used to hold his hands and he would rock me up and down.
(11) Müller’s touch to redirect the path of the ball with his instep was sublime, gangling perfection and Lewandowski headed past Fabiano.
(12) Marked tightly by William Gallas, the Ivorian received on his chest with his back to goal, delicately flicked the ball out of his feet with the instep, the turned and crunched a volley that flew high beyond Cudicini at his near post.
(13) A clinical study of thick, split-thickness grafts from the instep is described from which it is concluded that a good aesthetic result can be achieved without compromising hand function--but only in children and adolescents among whom there was no donor site morbidity.
(14) Traditional boots show high pressure values over the instep at foreward leans of 35 degrees and a rise of pressure underneath the forefoot while fixing the buckles, whereas minimal pressure over the instep, no compression of the forefoot and a pressure maximum near the upper end of the shaft are observed in rear entry boots.
(15) He stumbled last night and has a nasty bruise along his instep.
(16) Well-suited ski boots should cause low pressure over the instep and show a relatively low maximum in the upper part of the shaft, in order to allow a good transmission of torque, which is necessary for a safe binding release and easy skiing without fatigue.
(17) The authors attempted to increase the cytotoxicity of the renal hilar lymph nodes in ten patients with renal cell carcinoma by administration of recombinant interleukin-2 (IL-2) into the subcutaneous tissue of the instep.
(18) On the basis of two cases, both being failures after the use of other methods, we commend the use of a cross-instep flap.
(19) 10.11pm BST ET 12 min: Mascherano slides in on Schweinsteiger, catching the German's instep and causing a wee bit of pain.
(20) A patient developed discrete, macular, erythematous lesions on the instep of his foot, noted at the time of his admission to the hospital for treatment of Goodpasture's syndrome.
Metatarsus
Definition:
(n.) That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(2) These functional results justify attempts to maintain weight bearing areas or, at least, the knee, whatever the duration of healing or amputation of a toe or of the metatarsus; in Syme's amputation of the leg, healing requires 2 to 4 months.
(3) One hundred twenty radiographs of the foot were evaluated for hallux abductus angle, lateral talometatarsal angle, and metatarsus primus elevatus position.
(4) The authors describe their operative approach to metatarsus primus adductus deformity when present in conjunction with a congenitally short first metatarsal.
(5) In fact, the diagnosis of metatarsus primus elevatus with associated advancing degenerative joint disease is probably being missed in a significant number of patients.
(6) In 21 clinically adducted feet (48%) the main cause of residual deformity was metatarsus varus alone or metatarsus varus in spite of talonavicular overcorrection; in five feet the cause was talonavicular subluxation.
(7) Many methods of fixation have been used after proximal abductory metatarsal osteotomies for the correction of metatarsus primus varus.
(8) The dilemma of metatarsus adductus was reviewed in this clinically illustrated essay.
(9) injection within the physiologically perfused thigh, the concentrations in the reduced perfused metatarsus still show a convincing tendency to higher values after i.a.
(10) The metatarsus varus, very frequently associated with the hall valgus, means the escape of the first ray from the effect of the transverse intermetatarsal ligament.
(11) The deformity of hallux abducto valgus is often accompanied by the deformity of metatarsus primus varus.
(12) The therapy consisted of an arthrodesis of the midtarsal joints along with a transfer of the tibialis-anterior-tendon to metatarsus V. In all three cases both deformity and pain disappeared.
(13) Skewfoot must be differentiated from metatarsus adductus, metatarsus varus, and metatarsus adductovarus.
(14) Caudal superficial epigastric flaps enabled coverage to the metatarsus.
(15) Metatarsus adductus and medial tibial torsion are common in term infants.
(16) A young man had hereditary sensory radicular neuropathy with relapsing ulcer of the foot and, in addition to previously known clinical features, osteoarthropathy with hallux valgus, metatarsus primus varus, exostosis, and pes planus.
(17) At birth, metatarsus adductus was found to be more frequent in twins than in single infants (41% vs 16%; P less than 0.01), but occurred with equal frequency in single preterm and term infants (16% vs 12%).
(18) The stiffness of the tibia-metatarsus joint of several spider-species was determined for different loading conditions.
(19) This paper reports the stabilization of an open comminuted fracture of the metatarsus of a rare white Arabian oryx using an original Ilisarov-fixator.
(20) Although many papers have been written on metatarsus adductus, few have used radiographic criteria for either the diagnosis of or in determining correction of metatarsus adductus.