(a.) Of or pertaining to the ischium or hip; ischiac; ischiadic; ischiatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a significant difference between the groups in the position of the perineum with respect to the ischial tuberosities at rest (p less than 0.025) and on defaecation straining (p less than 0.005).
(2) Increases in skin temperature averaging 2.3 C to 2.5 C under the ischial tuberosities and 3.2 C to 3.5 C under the thighs were noted when the subjects sat on either of the latex rubber cushions.
(3) Ischial pressures were measured during periods of quiet sitting and FES application.
(4) The condition in which pain is felt over the area at the ischial tuberosity and radiating down the back of the thigh is labelled the hamstring syndrome.
(5) The patient is a 42-year-old man with chronic nonhealing of a right ischial pressure ulcer.
(6) Good correlation was obtained between the change of the limb length made intraoperatively and the change in the limb length using the ischial tuberosities as reference points; no correlation was observed when the vertices of the femoral heads were the reference points.
(7) They pointed out that patients affected by SUI show a perineal position, either at rest and under switch, below the ischial tuberosities plane.
(8) The posterior thigh fasciocutaneous flap is useful for the coverage of ischial and trochanteric pressure sores; the biceps femoris musculocutaneous flap is a useful choice for deep ischial defects.
(9) Significant changes in lateral support were noted with suspension, as was a reduction in both the absolute pressure and relative distribution of pressure to the ischial areas.
(10) Continuous pressure under each ischial tuberosity was measured on five ulcer-free patients with quadriplegia for four days as they completed their normal daily activities.
(11) Of the eight sows with hindleg lameness, one showed detachment of the ischial tuberosity and a second showed detachment of the ischial tuberosity on the left and a mid-shaft femoral fracture on the right.
(12) This is located by inserting the needle at a point one quarter of the distance from the ischial tuberosity to the greater trochanter in the gluteal fold and then feeling two distinct losses of resistance as superficial and deep fascia are penetrated with a short-bevelled needle.
(13) At surgery it was found that the infection extended from the ischial bursa to the upper lateral thigh.
(14) A repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed significant differences in ischial tuberosity pressure between cross-body, forward, and lateral reach in the flat plane activity.
(15) It was shown that only in backrest seat angles of 90 and 110 degrees pressure areas below the ischial tuberosities were clearly defined.
(16) Sacral ulcers were more prevalent with patients who had SCI at C4-T1 while ischial ulcers were more common with SCI at T11-L1.
(17) Two conflictual zones are isolated: the first is linked to the clamp which is produced by the insertion of the sacro-epinous ligament on the ischial spine and the sacro-tuberal ligament; the second is linked to the falciform process of the sacrotuberal which threatens the nerve by its sharp upper edge.
(18) The perineum may be divided into the urogenital triangle and anal triangle by a line passing between the ischial tuberosities.
(19) This allows sex determination and reflects maturation processes through the appearance and fusion of the apophyses of the iliac crest and the ischial bone.
(20) Subjects fitted with instrumented ischial weight-bearing and patellar-tendon-bearing orthoses walked over a force plate which measured forces imparted to the floor.
Ischium
Definition:
(n.) The ventral and posterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.
(n.) One of the pleurae of insects.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium, however, ossification in A2 fetuses increased to the levels observed in the PF and C groups.
(2) A training system for the prevention of pressure sores has been designed to teach the paralytic person to relieve pressure intermittently from his ischium while sitting in a wheelchair.
(3) In patients with injury to the sacro-iliac joints or of the sacrum, the extent of the injury and the degree of pelvic instability was better shown by CT. All other bony lesions, such as fractures of the ilium, pubis, ischium or the symphysis could be diagnosed adequately by simple radiographs.
(4) The specific and complementary investigations revealed the absence of the left half of sacrum, coccyx, together with the left iliac bone, ischium and pubis.
(5) The press-fit component without screws demonstrated the greatest motion equaling 162 microns at the ilium, 97 microns at the publis, and 54 microns at the ischium.
(6) Sites of involvement included the pubis in three patients, the ilium in two patients, and the ischium in one patient.
(7) Increasing the protein content of the alcohol diet from 18% (Diet A1) to 25% (Diet A2) significantly increased ossification of the ulna, sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium.
(8) A training and monitoring system has been developed to train spinal cord injured patients to relieve pressure intermittently from ischium while sitting in wheelchairs.
(9) Surgical repair with reattachment of avulsed muscles to the ischium and proximal tendinous sheaths of the muscles restored function or corrected deformity.
(10) In older children in whom rigidity of the pubic symphysis did not permit a sufficient amount of acetabular tilt the acetabulum had to be isolated from the rest of the pelvis by a triple osteotomy which consisted of, in addition to the osteotomy of the ilium, osteotomies of the superior pubic ramus and the ischium or the inferior pubic ramus.
(11) Bicortical fixation was significantly greater in the superior ilium, posterior column, and ischium than in the anterior column or pubis.
(12) According to NOVOTNY, a correct sexing of pelves is possible on the basis of combination of 2 type-morphognostic characters and 4 morphometric ones of the pubis, the ischium, and the greater sciatic notch (incisura ischiadica major).
(13) The bony hemipelvis was resected in the subperiosteal plane, resulting in the removal of the iliac wing, ischium, and pubic rami.
(14) The results show that the main stressing of the bony pelvis occurs in the region of the acetabulum and the iliosacral joints, and that further points of loading are located in the lower region of the ischium-and this while standing on one leg, on the side of the supporting leg.
(15) The involved portions of the left pubis and left ischium presented as "cold" areas on the original bone scan with 99mTc-diphosphonate.
(16) A benign osteoblastoma of the anterior part of the pelvic ring was excised with the pubic rami ischium and lower part of the acetabulum.
(17) It is secondary to impairment of the internal pudendal nerve in its musculo-osteo-aponeurotic tunnel composed by the ischium and the obturator internus muscle (ischiorectal fossa or pudendal canal).
(18) Ischium and pubis remained unossified until the 20th day of gestation.
(19) A worst-case support condition was assumed in which bony contact with small areas of the ilium, ischium, and pubis was represented by three-point support.
(20) Conservative hemipelvectomy is the resection of the ischium, ilium and subjacent extremity.