(a.) Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore.
(n.) A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our study points to the role of the flexor and extensor carpi ulnaris muscles in the stability of the internal carpus, confirming that the pisiform is a sesamoid bone in the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon.
(2) 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.
(3) The nerve arises from the ulnar aspect of the ulnar nerve at an average distance of 8.5 centimeters from the proximal border of the pisiforme.
(4) Erosions on the triquetrum and pisiform are frequent in early rheumatoid arthritis and occur characteristically at 3 sites.
(5) Surgical decompression of Guyon's canal with removal of the pisiform bone resulted in a complete cure.
(6) Mechanisms of injury reported in the literature include blunt trauma to the hamulus or pisiform, forceful swinging of a grasped object, or a forceful muscular contraction.
(7) Os multangulum minus and os capitatum as well as os triquetrum and possibly also the os pisiforme showed a synostosis.
(8) Group A received vibration to an area 12.5 cm2 on the ulnar aspect of the palm of the hand 1 cm distal to the pisiform bone.
(9) Degenerative arthritis of the pisotriquetral joint was diagnosed by point tenderness over the pisiform and crepitus elicited by lateral movement of the pisiform on the triquetrum.
(10) If conservative therapy is unsuccessful, relief of pain can be obtained by excision of the pisiform bone.
(11) The accelerative phase of the adolescent growth spurt is accompanied by epiphyseal widths reaching diaphyseal widths in the fingers and radius and by ossification of the pisiform and hamate Stage 1.
(12) Fractures and especially luxations of the pisiform bone are rare injuries of hands, of which X-ray pictures are very important.
(13) Beside measurements of the wall structures in the region of the pisiform bone, the hook of hamate and the entrances of the loge, variations of muscles and the position of the ulnar artery and nerve with their terminal branches have also been examined.
(14) The so-called secondary pisiform is not a congenital variant but develops with increasing frequency in older age as one of the features of the osteoarthritic reactions.
(15) Five of the seven patients came to operation for the following disorder: local, circumscribed chondrosis, chondromatosis of flexor carpi ulnaris with osteochondromatosis, atrophy of the pisiform and in the two cases aseptic osteonecrosis.
(16) The pisiform is the only moving structure of the canalis carpi.
(17) The muscle originates from the medial epicondyle and the fascia of the forearm and inserts into the pisiform bone and retinaculum.
(18) In eight of sixteen patients with symptomatic pisotriquetral joints the pisiform was excised.
(19) In the early stages of lunate necrosis with a minus variant of the ulna the best results were obtained by shortening of the radius otherwise with the pisiform transposition.
(20) The lipoids leaving the vascular paths infiltrate the connective tissue capsule of the pisiform bone and stimulate the formation of osteoblasts at the border between bone and soft tissue.
Wrist
Definition:
(n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
(n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irradiation of the skin overlying the median nerve at the wrist in humans with a low power (1 mW; 632.5 nm) helium-neon laser produced a somatosensory evoked potential obtained at Erb's point.
(2) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(3) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(4) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(5) The heat uptake that resulted from immersing the hand and wrist into a water-filled calorimeter maintained at temperatures between 37-40 degrees C was measured under standard conditions in a group of eight subjects of either sex.
(6) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(7) Tenosynovial biopsy specimens from 177 wrists were obtained from patients at carpal tunnel release, and a control group of 19 specimens was also obtained.
(8) A 31-year-old man was found to have a diffuse infection of the wrist and osteomyelitis of the scaphoid caused by Mycobacterium kansasii.
(9) The index was calculated by dividing the sum of the count rates over both knees and both wrists by the dose of technetium given.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Roentgenograms of hands, wrists, and forefeet were taken at baseline and after 6 and 12 months, and 32 joints were evaluated according to Larsen.
(12) She got it when Alyssa was born and her daughter’s name is inked in black just above her wrist.
(13) Electromyographic reaction times of the left and the right finger extensor muscles in extension movement of the wrist were examined in 42 patients with Parkinson's disease, and 20 normal subjects.
(14) Hand function after surgery in the follow-up period of three to twenty-one months was very satisfactory with the exception of three cases which presented at a very late stage with secondary involvement of the wrists.
(15) A reliability study was conducted to determine (a) the intrarater and interrater reliability of goniometric measurement of active and passive wrist motions under clinical conditions and (b) the effect of a therapist's specialization on the reliability of measurement.
(16) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(17) The data required are recumbent length, nude weight, midparent stature, and hand-wrist skeletal age.
(18) Arthrography before isotope synoviorthesis of the fingers and wrists was carried out in 185 patients suffering from inflammatory rheumatic conditions.
(19) Volar subluxation of the tendons of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist occurred in two patients after surgery for treatment of de Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis.
(20) Distal (5th finger - wrist) and proximal (wrist - elbow) sensory nerve conduction showed an insignificant increase as hyperglycemia was induced.