(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.
Pubis
Definition:
(n.) The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) During walking, all components of sacroiliac articulation and the symphysis pubis are apparently subjected to sudden changes in stress.
(2) Stress fractures of the symphysis pubis are usually due to bone insufficiency.
(3) A 37-year-old man visited our hospital with the chief complaint of a painless mass in subcutaneous tissue of the pubis.
(4) the gas is released from solution from the small amount of fluid trapped in the calculus, in the same way that gas may be 'pulled' out of solution in a joint, a degenerate intervertebral disc or the fibro-cartilage of the symphysis pubis.
(5) Abnormal mucopolysacchariduria, observed in both patients, and cataracts, fusion of the symphysis pubis, and deficiency of carpal bones, seen in the mother, have not been described previously.
(6) 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.
(7) The specific and complementary investigations revealed the absence of the left half of sacrum, coccyx, together with the left iliac bone, ischium and pubis.
(8) Thus, both sacroiliac articulation and symphysis pubis show characteristic distribution of the subchondral bone density and layout of the tensile collagen fibrous material as expression of a strongly varying qualitative pattern of stress during walking.
(9) Complete removal of the skin and fat between the umbilicus and the pubis is always possible if the operating table is put in a proper position for closure.
(10) Following iliac (Salter) osteotomy, the second osteotomy was carried out medial to the obturator foramen in the interval between the symphysis pubis and the pubic tubercle.
(11) In each patient, the bacterial cause was suggested by a known infectious process adjacent of the symphysis pubis.
(12) The results of 55 "normal" cases were analyzed for size and relationship to the symphysis pubis, retropubic space, and bladder, as shown on CT sections correlating the features with age and possible urinary symptoms.
(13) However, in the nonmodified group there was one patient with osteitis pubis, one patient with urethral stenosis and two patients with prolonged urinary retention.
(14) Sites of involvement included the pubis in three patients, the ilium in two patients, and the ischium in one patient.
(15) Pelveoperitonitis and rupture of the symphysis pubis in one case each (3 per cent).
(16) Periostitis pubis is a clinical syndrome previously undescribed in the literature.
(17) The ventral arc is a ridge of bone which may occur on the ventral surface of the corpus of the os pubis in adult females.
(18) The separations were associated with considerable pain, swelling, and tenderness over the symphysis pubis and were confirmed roentgenographically.
(19) It is clear that osteitis pubis in athletes is not uncommon and that factors such as loss of rotation of hips and previous obstetric history are important in the aetiology and management of this condition.
(20) Throat, urine, and skin surfaces from scalp, ears, chest, face, axillary, submammary, umbilical, upper back, inguinal crease, gluteal-fold, perirectal, vaginal, pubis, penis, scrotal, leg, hands, feet, finger, and toenail areas were cultured for aerobic bacteria, yeast, and dermatophytes.