(a.) Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
Example Sentences:
(1) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(2) A plantar approach, implanting into the deep layer of intrinsics, was used.
(3) There was a best negative correlation between latencies (P27, P40 and the interpeak latency between P40 and P27 (P40-P27)) and nasopharyngeal temperature, but no correlation was found between latencies and plantar temperature during cooling and rewarming (27-37 degrees C) with cardiopulmonary bypass.
(4) The lower lipid content, expressed as weight per unit weight of tissue, in palmo-plantar stratum corneum as compared to non-palmo-plantar stratum corneum may be related to the fact that a larger portion of the intercellular space of the former tissue is occupied by desmosomes.
(5) There was no cross-reactivity between these two viruses, neither with HPV1 responsible for plantar warts nor with HPV2 inducing common warts.
(6) Following anesthesia obtained with a posterior tibial nerve block, the plantar verruca can be successfully dissected with an 80 percent cure rate.
(7) Since DG I belongs to the group of transmembrane desmosomal proteins that is believed to constitute the link between the intracellular parts of desmosomes of opposing cells, it is concluded that desmosomes may play an important role in plantar stratum corneum cell cohesion, and that degradation of desmosomes may be an important step in desquamation in plantar epidermis.
(8) What is the relation between dynamic plantar load distribution and pain in the ball of the foot?
(9) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
(10) A plantar V-Y advancement flap is effective for reconstruction of a hallux amputation.
(11) Painful palmar and plantar erythema is an uncommon systemic complication of chemotherapy and has been reported in association with methotrexate, cystosine arabinoside, doxorubicin, and 5-fluorouracil.
(12) In reviewing previous studies in the literature, it was apparent that the widely differing percentages of extensor plantars reported in newborns was related directly to differences in the technique of examination.
(13) As in previous studies, the sites predominantly affected were the foot and the hand, mainly on the plantar and palmar surfaces.
(14) For reconstruction of the distal portion of the foot, the distally based flap of this muscle can be useful, effectively utilizing the blood supply through the plantar arch communication.
(15) However, we failed to demonstrate any remarkable IL-1 inhibitory activity in each fraction after gel filtration high-performance liquid chromatography of the psoriatic scale extracts or in that of extracts from the plantar callus.
(16) In a previous study of push-off without plantar flexion it was shown that the transformation of knee angular velocity into translation of the body is constrained by the fact that velocity difference between hip and ankle has to reach its peak value a long time before the knee is extended.
(17) Torque generated about the ankle joints during maximum isometric contraction of the plantar flexor muscles was measured on a subject 4 months after unilateral excision of the entire triceps surae.
(18) Whether for functional or cosmetic reasons in oncologic patients, following amputation or severe crush injuries of the lower limbs with complete severance of vessels and nerves, microsurgery enables a weight-bearing lower limb or femoral stump to be created if such a result cannot be achieved by transplanting plantar skin with an intact vessel-nerve bundle.
(19) Na+-pump activity was estimated in the plantar and dorsal branches of the lateral saphenous veins by using the 86Rb-uptake method.
(20) Therefore 14 normal subjects performed incremental plantar flexion to exhaustion on 2 study days, the first for determination of LT and VT and the second for continuous 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of calf muscle.
Volar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
(2) Weakness of the flexor pollicis longus, flexor digitorum profundus and pronator quadratus is usually related to an isolated paralysis of the anterior interosseous nerve in the volar aspect of the forearm.
(3) The procedure to accomplish this end utilizes the measured thermal pain threshold, surface temperature, exposure time, and incident energy on a standardized skin site (volar surface of the forearm) to obtain conductivity values.
(4) It is suggested that this is due to the fact that the small animals have discrete, elevated volar pads.
(5) The treatment of a Smith type-II fracture is a volar buttress plate unless extended comminution is present.
(6) 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.
(7) Bleeding into the anterior muscles and into the volar aspect of the wrist, on the other hand, was complicated by contracture, neuropathy, or both in six cases.
(8) Histologic examination of the volar carpal ligament showed fibrocartilaginous changes suggesting a progressive degenerative phenomenon.
(9) Using a volar technique, rather than the traditional dorsal method, allows stabilization of the constructed metacarpophalangeal joint and maximizes flexor function.
(10) We have constructed a device for standardized radiodiagnostics of ulnar, volar, and radial capsulo-ligamentous lesions of the basal thumb joint.
(11) The tests, performed on volar forearm skin, were removed after a 24-h application.
(12) The effect of application site on anthralin inflammation was measured at 10 clinically normal volar skin sites on each forearm of 31 subjects as the increase in skin thickness at 48 h using Harpenden calipers.
(13) This report describes the successful use of a free sensory medial plantar flap for the reconstruction of the volar skin of the index finger.
(14) This study examined input-output relation of the somatosensory system in response to mechanical air-puff stimuli applied to the volar aspect of the tip of the index finger.
(15) This was achieved with good result by release of all the retaining ligaments around the proximal interphalangeal joint including both the collateral ligaments, the volar plate, the transverse retinacular ligaments, and extensor tenolysis.
(16) The interval between injury and the onset of symptoms of volar compartment syndrome varied between 12 and 48 hours.
(17) The flag flap, elevated from the dorsal aspect of the proximal phalanx, may be employed as a one-stage procedure to cover a loss of soft tissue on the volar aspect of the adjacent finger, the staff of the flap running over an oblique web-space incision.
(18) We decided to test Chrysaora hysoscella dermotoxicity on healthy volunteers by cutting a Chrysaora hysoscella tentacle and placing it on a gauze soaked in a solution of 3% NaCl and applying then to the volar side of the right wrist for one minute.
(19) This provides good quality cover to the volar aspect and avoids bulk on the dorsum.
(20) For these sites thin and pliant fasciocutaneous flaps are ideal tissue transfers, and we favour the radial forearm flap which is raised from the distal volar forearm.