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Lunate


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Lunated

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Elsewhere, Lady Edith dares spend the night with her boyfriend, on the eve of his supposed departure to Germany, where he plans to become a citizen in order to divorce his wife on the grounds that she’s a lunatic, so that he may marry Edith.
  • (2) Although the Acpo statement today was more measured, its president, Sir Hugh Orde, has warned in recent months that low turnouts would risk returning BNP candidates and even "lunatics" as police commissioners.
  • (3) In capitate interpositional arthroplasty (Graner II) the necrotic lunate bone is removed and the congruity of the proximal carpal row is restored by interposition of the proximal half of the capitate.
  • (4) Assessment of Holloway's chimpanzee data supports my claim that the dimple on the Taung endocast is within the chimpanzee range for the medial end of the lunate sulcus.
  • (5) The authors have underlined in a study made on 8 observations that the lunate dislocation is scar.
  • (6) Since 1986, 7 necrosed lunate bones (Kienbock disease) in 7 patients were replaced by the nearby pisiform bone with a pedicle of its own nutrient vessels and tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris.
  • (7) We observed and other persons, too, (visitors, new patients...) the strange and particular physic aspect of lunatic people who are ill long since.
  • (8) In the past thirty-one years (1956-1986), seventeen patients were found to have fresh lunate fractures.
  • (9) Speaking in detail about the Trident review for the first time since he was sacked as minister, Harvey said: "If you can just break yourself out of that frankly almost lunatic mindset for a second, all sorts of alternatives start to look possible, indeed credible."
  • (10) Nor were terrorists in the same category as a "lunatic assassins".
  • (11) In addition, the bone scan showed focal increased uptake in the right scaphoid bone and lunate bone as well, suggesting fractures.
  • (12) Capitate-hamate-lunate-triquetral fusions reduced compressive strains by 28.5% and tensile strains by 26.3%.
  • (13) In type 2 the triquetrohamate joint is separated from the capitolunate joint by a concave transition facet on the hamate and lunate.
  • (14) Anatomic reduction of the scaphoid, as well as the midcarpal joint, and restoration of the articular surface of the lunate, are most important in determining prognosis.
  • (15) Pathologic findings were observed in 11 wrists, including four perforations of the triangular fibrocartilage complex, two cases of chondromalacia of the lunate, one tear in each of the scapholunate and lunotriquetral ligaments, three occult palmar ganglia, and one recurrent dorsal ganglion.
  • (16) The wrist motion remaining after simulated arthrodeses was as follows: capitate-hamate: flexion (Flx) 98%, extension (Ext) 92%, ulnar deviation (UD) 96%, radial deviation (RD) 90%; scaphoid-lunate: Flx 97%, Ext 91%, UD 90%, RD 91%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid: Flx 86%, Ext 88%, UD 67%, RD 69%; scaphoid-lunate-triquetrum: Flx 91%, Ext 82%, UD 86%, RD 70%; capitate-lunate: Flx 70%, Ext 59%, UD 89%, RD 79%; capitate-hamate-triquetrum: Flx 88%, Ext 79%, UD 88%, RD 81%; hamate-triquetrum: Flx 90%, Ext 85%, UD 89%, RD 94%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid-capitate: Flx 85%, Ext 77%, UD 64%, RD 57%.
  • (17) The midcarpal joint is stabilized by active, longitudinal compressive forces which produce balancing lateral volar flexion and medial dorsiflexion moments on the lunate.
  • (18) Bilateral palmar instability of the wrist with subluxation between capitate and lunate bone.
  • (19) However, Holloway neglected to measure the occipital pole-lunate sulcus (OP-LS) arc directly on the Taung endocast as he did on chimpanzee brain casts (a crucial part of his methodology); instead, he determined the relative position of Taung's lunate sulcus on the basis of a calculation that confounds direct measurements and measurements from photographs.
  • (20) An old dorsal lunate dislocation with associated multiple extensor tendon ruptures is described.

Luxate


Definition:

  • (a.) Luxated.
  • (v. t.) To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
  • (2) In the first part of this paper the authors reported on the treatment of 938 bimalleolar luxation fractures.
  • (3) We report on our experiences with the application of cast immobilisation in the human position according to Fettweis in order to treat unstable luxations of the hip joint of infants.
  • (4) Subluxation and luxation of the ulnar nerve are normally congenital and can result in not only an irritation of the nerve but also sensory loss and motor weakness.
  • (5) The authors stressed that ophthalmologists should not only look for luxation of the lens in children who are suspected of having CMC syndrome.
  • (6) Modification of the articular relationships in the lateral femoro-tibial compartment reduces the sub-luxation and, post-operatively a lateral femoro-tibial interspace, which has not deteriorated in time, reappear.
  • (7) More favourable results were achieved in fractures with two or three fragments, in younger patients and in isolated shoulder injuries than with four-fragment fractures or luxated fractures, in older and in polytraumatized patients.
  • (8) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
  • (9) Operations of this type have been performed in cases of traumatic cataract, subluxated and luxated lenses.
  • (10) The example of the untreated peri-lunar luxation and subsequent lunar necrosis illustrates the legally effective problematic nature of two causes.
  • (11) We also found talonecrosis after surgical correction of clubfoot, after Sudeck's disease (Sudeck-Leriche syndrome, Sudeck's atrophy or dystrophy), suppurative arthritis of the ankle joint, subtalar luxation and haematogenic osteomyelitis.
  • (12) 48 Gynecological Pediatric Hospital of the IMSS National Medical Center, looking for external congenital malformations including esophageal atresias, anorectal malformations and congenital hip luxations, all easily detected during a routine exploration.
  • (13) It therefore appears that the general factors that are able to predict the type of healing seen after root fracture are the same as those after luxation injuries, supporting the hypothesis that root fractures are another form of luxation injury, this time of only the coronal fragment.
  • (14) In fracture or luxation of small joints immediate reposition by careful traction and splint-fixation in neutral position ist most important.
  • (15) In childhood only luxations occured, in other ages no characteristic distribution of different types of damage could be found.
  • (16) Radiological studies demonstrated increased sclerosis of the orbital bones and decreased orbital volumes, the probable cause of the luxation and the glaucoma.
  • (17) The 108 cases where peritendinitis has occurred following shoulder luxations are shown divided up according to various symptoms.
  • (18) The luxation of the arytenoid cartilage is a very uncommon complication of endotracheal intubation.
  • (19) The ends of the fragments after open reposition and reduction of the proximal fragment could be fixed durably by functional stable compression osteosynthesis in 35 patients with fractures and luxation or dislocation.
  • (20) Corneal contusion, McCannel suture, YAG laser iridectomy, congenital luxation of the lens, and chronic over wearing of contact lenses all cause traumatic changes.

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