(n.) The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important differential diagnostic problems involve anencephaly with spinal retroflexion and the Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(2) Iniencephaly is a very rare malformation comprising a bone defect at the occiput, malformation of the cervical and thoracic vertebrae, spina bifida, and retroflexion of the head.
(3) It is associated with a defect in the occiput, alterations in the spinal column that are variable and retroflexion of the fetus.
(4) Moreover, the authors provided evidence that the area of the dural sac diminishes significantly in retroflexion, as compared with the neutral position in subjects with a normal spinal canal as well as in subjects with congenital stenosis of the spinal canal.
(5) Because of our good results, we make a plea for expectant management of retroflexion of the pregnant uterus.
(6) It is suggested that for precision the term "spinal retroflexion" should be used after duly prefixing it by an appropriate word (severe, moderate or mild) indicating the degree of retroflexion observed.
(7) The findings show that retroflexion in this variant of anencephaly can be classified into severe, moderate and mild forms.
(8) Retroflexion of the head with exaggerated cervicothoracic lordosis is always present, and CNS malformations in the form of anencephaly, spina bifida and encephalocele are often present.
(9) It is discussed that, though the anencephalies with severe or moderate degree of cervical retroflexion resemble iniencephaly in their features of spinal retroflexion, those having mild retroflexion are contrasted and should not be categorised with iniencephaly.
(10) The incidence of retroflexion in holoprosencephaly was apparently higher than that of ordinary subdural hygromas.
(11) A frequent feature is pain on retroflexion of the head.
(12) Iniencephaly is a rare, lethal, axial dysraphic malformation complex diagnosed on the basis of three cardinal features: deficiency of the occipital bone, cervicothoracic spinal retroflexion, and rachischisis.
(13) Case analysis indicates that retroflexion results from subdural fluid collection.
(14) This fetus is especially interesting as it presents anencephaly, supporting the view of classifying together iniencephaly and anencephaly with retroflexion.
(15) Anteflexion and retroflexion movements of the cervical spine were recorded cineradiographically during three measuring sessions to determine reproducibility as well as intraindividual and interindividual variability of segmental instantaneous centers of rotation (recorded as "averaged" and "standard").
(16) The not viable, female newborn had a malformation causing an extremely retroflexion of the head.
(17) No explanation could be found for this persisting retroflexion during pregnancy.
(18) Fetal eye, mouth, rotation, and retroflexion of the head were observed by real-time ultrasound.
(19) The objective of the presented work was to investigate anatomical structures of the cervial spine and their interrelations on cervical myelograms in a neutral position and in retroflexion.
(20) The area of the dural sac increases during anteflexion and diminishes in retroflexion, as compared with the neutral position.
Retroversion
Definition:
(n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measurement mean for anteversion among these specimens was 7.4 degrees with a range from -10.8 degrees (retroversion) to 22.1 degrees.
(2) Five shoulders had a posterior opening-wedge osteotomy of the scapular neck to correct the excessive retroversion of the glenoid cavity.
(3) Such observations may conceal the fact that the amine N-oxide has undergone a sequence of deoxygenation and oxygenation reactions only to revert to the parental form and be excreted as such--a process that we propose to call metabolic retroversion.
(4) In the first years of its use, operative laparoscopy for uterine pathology was employed in the surgical treatment of myomas and in the correction of uterine retroversion (hysteropexy).
(5) The retroversion would create more difficulty in emptying.
(6) A method for assessing the retroversion angle of the humeral prosthesis in total shoulder arthroplasty is presented.
(7) It is concluded that patients who suffer such dislocated hips belong at one extreme of the normal population, having either reduced femoral anteversion or even retroversion, and that this anatomical feature selects towards hip dislocation rather than to injury of the femoral shaft, knee or tibia during the appropriate type of accident.
(8) Caesarean section made it possible to deliver a child weighing 1910 g. There were no adhesions found behind the uterus to fix it in retroversion.
(9) Three dimensional pictures are presented from the horizontal, backward tilt (retroversion) and forward tilt (anteversion) projections as well as the projection of the base of the skull, which yield most information.
(10) Our conclusions based on this study were that 1) specific therapy in the form of rotator cuff strengthening should be the initial form of treatment in patients with posterior shoulder instability, 2) soft tissue surgery has a high rate of recurrence, 3) the return to sports is variable, 4) there appears to be an increased incidence of glenoid retroversion in this patient population, and 5) the incidence of posttraumatic arthritis is low.
(11) The authors report a case of retroversion of the uterus with anterior sacculation that carried on to the 34th week of pregnancy without any functional troubles.
(12) Femoral neck retroversion was not present clinically in any of the patients examined, and so appears to be quite rare.
(13) It is concluded that with the arm in the correct position measurements of humeral head retroversion can be performed with this method with high accuracy.
(14) An instrument is designed for the anatomic angle of retroversion of the humeral component for nonconstrained shoulder joint arthroplasty.
(15) The 95% two-tail confidence interval for humeral head retroversion was 30 degrees-35 degrees for the dominant side and 26 degrees-31 degrees for the nondominant side.
(16) However, a symmetrical rotation of the hip joints conditions a retroversion of the pelvic girdle which explains the horizontalisation of the upper sacral plateau.
(17) Humeral head retroversion and shoulder rotation in both the frontal and scapular plane were studied in 34 patients with anterior glenohumeral instability.
(18) Laparoscopic uterine suspension is an effective method of correcting symptomatic uterine retroversion.
(19) On the first pelvic examination at the Infertility Clinic, the uterus was of normal size, retroversion and rather fixed with 0.5 cm firm nodule at its posterior surface.
(20) We examined the value of ultrasound to determine the retroversion of the humerus in an experimental and clinical study.