What's the difference between ligament and syndesmosis?
Ligament
Definition:
(n.) Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.
(n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.
(n.) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(4) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
(5) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(6) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
(7) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(8) The clinical examination must cover all the anatomical detection of lesions of individual parts of the capsular ligaments.
(9) The major mode of failure was ligament disruption in the specimens from young adult humans and avulsion of bone beneath the ligament insertion site in the specimens from older humans.
(10) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
(11) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
(12) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
(13) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
(14) (1986) described the connective tissue thickening and named it the mandibulo-stylohyoid ligament because of its arrangement and attachments.
(15) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
(16) The distinction between a benign and a severe ligamentous sprain may thus be made.
(17) Small extensions from the distopalmar outpouchings were seen and extended axially into the fibers of the suspensory ligament or between the suspensory ligament and the distal accessory ligament of the deep digital flexor tendon.
(18) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(19) Diagnosis and therapy of 125 ruptures of the fibular ligaments and capsulae are reported.
(20) However, at angles of flexion of 30 degrees or less, the amount of posterior translation after section of only the lateral collateral ligament and the deep structures was similar to that noted after isolated section of the posterior cruciate ligament.
Syndesmosis
Definition:
(n.) An articulation formed by means of ligaments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roentgenogrammetric indices of ruptures of syndesmosis and peculiarities of bone injuries at the level of syndesmosis were established.
(2) Study of thirty-six cases of fracture of the fibula at levels proximal to the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis established that there are three types, distinguished by the direction of the fracture line, which are produced by different mechanisms: supination-external rotation, pronation-abduction, and pronation-external rotation.
(3) In spite of easy access, inserting the fibula into the incisure can be difficult in the case of bony or ligamentous injuries of the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis.
(4) The "flexible syndesmosis repair" uses simple, inexpensive, readily available synthetic materials to restore distal tibiofibular stability.
(5) The ontogeny of the syndesmosis in the chick embryo involves several developmental steps, including the formation of a separate cartilage rudiment that in turn stimulates the formation of an osseous crest on the tibia, which will eventually replace the cartilage element itself.
(6) Nine of 10 patients developed ossification of the syndesmosis in follow-up radiographs.
(7) The significant parameters are the talo-crural angle, residual malleolar displacement, the integrity of the syndesmosis, and obesity.
(8) the most important are the lateral maleolus -- its ligamentary part and the tibiofibular syndesmosis.
(9) Treatment should always be surgical - suture of the ligament, reinforcement of the syndesmosis by means of a positioning screw.
(10) Subsequent removal of the syndesmosis screw is required.
(11) No patient had an injury to the distal tibiofibular ligaments or to the syndesmosis.
(12) We describe 114 cases based on 2020 arthrographies of the ankle joint for diagnosing fresh tears of the tibio-fibula syndesmosis without bone lesions.
(13) Group I consisted of thirteen specimens in which the deltoid ligament, syndesmosis, and interosseous membrane were serially sectioned in 1.5-centimeter increments.
(14) After resection of the ankle joint we also resect the tibiofibular syndesmosis putting than in a transfixion screw.
(15) The immediate postoperative roentgenograms were examined for several features, which included widening of the syndesmosis, fibular length, talo-crural angle, talar tilt, presence and size of a posterior malleolar fracture, and an abnormality of the medial clear space.
(16) Fractures of the adult ankle with disruption of the tibiofibular syndesmosis require adequate stabilization of the ankle mortise to ensure satisfactory healing of the syndesmotic ligaments.
(17) Observations made were rupture of intervertebral disk at the crossing of cervical to thoracic vertebrae followed by syndesmosis or synchondrosis resp., as well as a comminuted fracture of the 1st lumbar vertebra including both the adjoining vertebrae, with succeeding reactive callus formation.
(18) The elastic fixation of the distal tibiofibulary syndesmosis by means of Engelbrecht's hook allows weight bearing and free dorsal flexion.
(19) Although a careful study of the literature was made, nothing was found that dealt with similar injuries, including fracture of the posterior syndesmosis.
(20) The physis is weaker than the ligaments, so that the typical mechanism of injury, which might be expected to result in a syndesmosis sprain of the ankle in adults with subsequent tearing of the ligaments, frequently causes an epiphyseal avulsion in children.