What's the difference between tarsus and tibiotarsal?
Tarsus
Definition:
(n.) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.
(n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.
(n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.
Example Sentences:
(1) The basis for this migration is postulated to be the anatomical relationships of the tarsus, postorbicular fascia, and lower eyelid retractors.
(2) The staining was most often concentrated centrally or in the middle anterior part of the superior tarsus.
(3) In all cases the tarsus was replaced by a strip of dura mater, the eye-lid skin by a free retroauricular graft.
(4) Hard palate mucosa grafts are an excellent replacement for tarsus and conjunctiva in eyelid reconstruction.
(5) Reconstruction of full thickness eyelid defects requires the correction of both posterior lamella (tarsus, conjunctiva) and anterior lamella (skin, muscle).
(6) This article reports the technique and results of a modified operation that uses two silicone rods per upper eyelid and eliminates fixation sutures to tarsus inferiorly and frontalis muscle superiorly.
(7) Attention is called to the necessity of the complete healing of the injuries of the ligaments and to the prevention of the valgus tendency of the tarsus.
(8) These reflex effects should enhance the traction of the tarsus with the ground.
(9) A concurrent infection of the patient's left tarsus was treated by triple arthrodesis.
(10) The attachment to the tarsus of the advanced aponeurosis 2 to 3 mm from the ciliary border gives the surgeon a leeway of approximately 7 to 8 mm to recess in the event of an overcorrection.
(11) The shortened tarsus improves the apposition of the lid aagainst the globe and the tightened orbicularis aids in maintaining this stability.
(12) The use of modified full-thickness grafts is superior to other well-known techniques, especially in cases with defects of the medial half of the lower lid and upper lid defects, up to and including total upper lid loss, even if the tarsus in the grafts is subject to regressive changes and the lashes are usually lost.
(13) The success of the procedure is determined by suture of the tarsus directly to the orbital periosteum.
(14) A nuclear magnetic resonance tomogram of an isolated equine tarsus is presented for comparison method.
(15) A young llama evaluated for bilateral hind limb lameness was found to have cranially rotated tibial tarsal bones as well as bilateral carpus and tarsus valgus and a ventricular septal defect.
(16) A 12-year-old Domestic Shorthair cat with a soft, fluctuant, subcutaneous mass, approximately 5 cm in diameter on the posterior aspect of the left tarsus was diagnosed as having protothecosis.
(17) A synovial cell sarcoma of the tarsus in a 6-year-old dog was treated with doxorubicin HCl and cyclophosphamide.
(18) The temperatures which populations of mechanosensory hairs on the thorax, head and tarsus experienced were measured in freely moving animals.
(19) The authors have observed 135 dislocations of the tarsus in leprosic feet.
(20) Laxity of the tarsus and canthal ligaments benefit from a horizontal lid-shortening procedure.
Tibiotarsal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the tibiotarsus.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings suggest a cause-and-effect relationship between scoliosis and tibiotarsal deformities associated with slipped tendons.
(2) Length of tibiotarsal bones was reduced (P less than 0.05) and severity of leg bone cartilage lesions, characteristic of dyschondroplasia, was highest (P less than 0.05) in broilers fed on diets containing hydrogenated soyabean oil.
(3) A 6.5-year-old, female Saint Bernard had a slowly growing tumor of the right tibiotarsal joint.
(4) Vitamin D metabolite levels and tibiotarsal histomorphometric characteristics were determined in 49-day-old male broilers.
(5) Clinical observations included body weight, diameters of radiocarpal and tibiotarsal joints and radiological analysis of forepaws, hindpaws and vertebrae.
(6) The coxofemoral, stifle, and tibiotarsal joints and their supporting tendons and ligaments were examined grossly.
(7) We studied this boot with the ankles of 15 cadavers, on which we sectioned the ligaments of the tibiotarsal and subtalar joints to measure the degree of laxity.
(8) Using an ultrasonic flow-meter, the author measured, in the internal saphenous vein, the speed of the venous blood in various functional instances of tibiotarsal articulation.
(9) Cartilage staining of embryos injected with insecticide at 72 hr of incubation and recovered at day 12 of incubation revealed severe shortening and contortion of the vertebral axis, as well as tibiotarsal, rib, and sternum defects.
(10) Proximal tibiotarsal osteochondrosis was a frequent concomitant finding which may affect the integrity of the ligament attachment.
(11) Bone strength of the tibiotarsal diaphysis was normal, and gross lesions of valgus and varus leg deformities did not appear to be related to the incidence of dyschondroplasia in the 3-week-old chicks.
(12) Typical lesions included extensive well-circumscribed areas of necrosis in the pectoral muscle, tenosynovitis of the tendon of the Musculus pectoralis profundus, and arthritis of the stifle, tibiotarsal, or shoulder joints.
(13) Surgical severance of the gastrocnemius and flexor tendons on the posterior aspect of the tibiotarsal-tarsometatarsal joint in one leg resulted in unilateral lameness in chickens that were susceptible to tibial dyschondroplasia.
(14) Unilateral intraplantar administration of FCA in mice resulted in visible inflammation in the area of the tibiotarsal (ankle) joint.
(15) The histopathology of the tibiotarsal and knee joints was studied by light microscopy and the articular surface of the cartilage by electron microscopy after labeling with cationized ferritin.
(16) Arthritic lesions, as judged by x-rays of tibiotarsal joint destruction in the nontreated paws, were partially prevented by PGE1 alone, but not by theophylline.
(17) The union also occurred without any problem for all 6 tibiotarsal arthrodeses.
(18) It measures with high precision the diameters of the hind paws and tibiotarsal joints at anatomically well defined reference points.
(19) The arthritis was migratory, appearing first in the radiocarpal joints and later in the tibiotarsal joints.
(20) A high-Mr (Mr 120,000), disulphide-bonded collagenous polypeptide was observed to co-purify with the prox1(X) chain during isolation of cartilage collagens from culture medium of embryonic chick tibiotarsal chondrocytes.