(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.
Reversion
Definition:
(n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return.
(n.) That which reverts or returns; residue.
(n.) The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.
(n.) Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
(n.) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.
(n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
Example Sentences:
(1) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(2) Application of 40 microM NiCl2 reversibly blocked It while leaving Is intact, whereas 20 microM CdCl2 reversibly blocked Is, but not It.
(3) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
(4) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(5) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(6) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(7) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(8) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(9) Head-injured patients had a low thyroxine (T4), low triiodothyronine (T3), and high reverse T3.
(10) Dilutional studies comparing the mechanism of inhibition of monoamine oxidase produced by Gerovital H3 and by ipronizid demonstrated that Gerovital H3 was a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase.
(11) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(12) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(13) What reforms there were could also be reversed, she warned.
(14) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(15) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(16) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(17) These antagonists reverse NMDA-mediated long term influence in these brain areas.
(18) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(19) We have recently described a nonnucleoside compound that specifically inhibits the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent of AIDS.
(20) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.