(n.) A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
Example Sentences:
(1) A combination of the kneepan suture with a thorough suture of the lateral extension system and restoration of the anatomical form of the articulation surface of the kneepan in young and middle aged people allows the functional treatment to be started earlier, and in elderly and senile patients it made the deformity less by the improvement of motor activity and early movements.
(2) The article analyzes an experience with the operative treatment of 90 patients with fractures of the kneepans and injuries of the extension system.
(3) This anomaly in the karyotype stipulates, in the skeletal formation, a tendency to high stature, a certain flattening in the head of the radiocarpal articulation, the kneepan and the distal contour of the femoral bone.
Patella
Definition:
(n.) A small dish, pan, or vase.
(n.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee.
(n.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.
(n.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
(2) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
(3) Ten patients gave a family history of recurrent dislocation of the patella and seven patients showed generalised joint laxity.
(4) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
(5) Therefore in artificial knee replacement a lateral tilt of the patella sliding groove should not be propagated as 'physiological'.
(6) The histological features of the chondromalacia patellae would be eventually developed by degenerative changes and restorative reaction.
(7) The "tooth" sign represents the relief of severe osteophyte formation in the bundle of the quadriceps tendon at its insertion into the patella.
(8) When the knee was in extension compared to 30 degrees flexion, the sulcus angle was greater, the lateral patellofemoral angle was smaller, there was more lateral patellar displacement, the patella tilted more laterally, and the congruence angle was directed more laterally.
(9) A corrugated appearance of the patellar tendon on sagittal images indicates a reduction in the normal tensile force applied to it and indicates the need for careful evaluation of the patella and quadriceps tendon mechanism.
(10) In thirty patients with subluxation of the patella, the lines were parallel in twenty-four and formed an angle open medially in six.
(11) In one patient, the fibrous band extended from the distal pole of the patella to the intracondylar notch, tethering the patella inferiorly.
(12) However, whereas talus and patella cartilage were affected by the disease, these and femoral-head cartilage seemed to be relatively spared when implanted in air pouches of adjuvant-diseased rats even after a massive inflammatory response was elicited in the cavity following challenge with tuberculin.
(13) A set of 4 projections of radiological examination performed on patients with intraarticular injuries of the knee has been presented, namely: 1) the a-p view of the knee in the standing position, 2) the 1-1 view with 30 degrees of flexion in the lying position, 3) the axial view of patellae, 30 degrees of flexion of the knee, standing position, 4) the tunnel view of the knee joint.
(14) The use of the "patella-clamp" made possible to obtain better results in surgical treatment of multi-fragment fractures of the patella.
(15) When later this was resorbed, and replaced by bone, the cartilage at the attachment zone remained, along with that of the articular surface of the patella.
(16) Tangential radiographic images of the patellae enabled us to measure directly the rotation of the patella around the axis perpendicular to its center.
(17) The effects of a single contusion without surface disruption and without fracture of the patella were studied in 40 rabbits.
(18) 150 knees were re-examined after operative therapy because of chondromalacia patellae.
(19) Of eighty-five consecutive patients, thirteen to twenty years old, with spastic cerebral palsy involving one or both extremities (thirty-five patients seen at one institution and fifty, at another), four had roentgenographic evidence of fragmentation of the distal pole of the patella.
(20) This procedure should be reserved for advanced chondromalacia patellae (Grades III and IV) and recurrent patellar dislocation.