(n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(2) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
(3) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(4) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(5) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
(6) The results may be summarized as follows: (1) The tendon tissues of the two main groups compared, differ structurally in several respects.
(7) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(8) The etiology, diagnosis and surgical treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis of the peroneal tendons is presented.
(9) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
(10) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(11) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(12) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(13) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
(14) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(15) The author maintains that the osteoma of the brachial muscle as well as post-traumatic periarticular calcifications, occur in the muscle mass or in the tendon that prolongs it, or in the articular capsule, as a result of surgical treament and post-operative immobilization, and only exceptionally following orthopaedic treatment of traumatic lesions.
(16) Small extensions from the distopalmar outpouchings were seen and extended axially into the fibers of the suspensory ligament or between the suspensory ligament and the distal accessory ligament of the deep digital flexor tendon.
(17) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
(18) The number of motor units which produced either an 'unloading' or an 'off response' exceeded, on average, the number of motor units which excited the same tendon organ.
(19) This method was used in 51 cut tendons in 38 patients.
(20) Tendon organ units consistently showed ;in series' response patterns during muscle contractions.
Tenosynovitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The etiology, diagnosis and surgical treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis of the peroneal tendons is presented.
(2) 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.
(3) A rare case of aseptic tenosynovitis from oxytocin injection in the vicinity of a tendon causing spontaneous rupture of the extensor digitorum communis tendon is reported.
(4) Infectious tenosynovitis was diagnosed in three separate outbreaks in a commercial White Leghorn hens, though not previously reported in adult White Leghorns (3).
(5) Breeder vaccination against tenosynovitis resulted in immunity of the progeny against oral infection at 1 day old, whereas progeny from unvaccinated breeders were susceptible to such a challenge.
(6) A fluid collection inside the tendon sheath was detected in 5 cases of tenosynovitis, without false-positive results.
(7) It is concluded that tenosynovitis is uncommon in patients undergoing surgery for treatment of idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome.
(8) We present such a case of the injection of Depo-Medrone with Lidocaine (Upjohn) into the right radial artery during attempted treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis of the right thumb.
(9) The diagnostic criteria of median nerve compression (carpal tunnel syndrome) include morphological and signal changes in the nerve, abnormal palmar convexity of the flexor retinaculum and signs of tenosynovitis of the intracarpal flexor tendons.
(10) However, HL-A7 was found more frequently in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis demonstrating tenosynovitis than in the population with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis as a whole.
(11) There was no evidence that practice of the sport predisposed to the early onset of chronic tenosynovitis or osteoarthritis.
(12) In extensor cystic tenosynovitis, the echographic picture was quite different: the anechoic cavity was longitudinal in shape, following the tendon sheath, and the communicating duct was absent.
(13) The medical records of 25 horses with septic tenosynovitis treated over 7 years (1983 to 1989) were reviewed to determine clinical features of the disease and response to treatment.
(14) Gonococcal infection must be considered in the differential diagnosis of migratory polyarthralgia, tenosynovitis, oligoarthritis, fever or unusual skin lesions.
(15) As the management of the H. influenzae tenosynovitis would differ from that due to other causes, the addition of H. influenzae type b to a differential of tenosynovitis should be considered.
(16) In nine birds tenosynovitis, characterised by a marked inflammatory response, was identified.
(17) We report a patient with sarcoidosis who presented with a large subcutaneous plaque of the palm and flexor tenosynovitis of the middle finger.
(18) Clinical examination of 15 patients with the superior oblique tendon sheath syndrome showed that 12 of them had some evidence of stenosing tenosynovitis.
(19) This is the first report of a patient with a history of painless chronic flexor tenosynovitis caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans.
(20) De Quervain's tenosynovitis was the only diagnosis for two thirds of the patients.