What's the difference between thigh and tibia?

Thigh


Definition:

  • (n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
  • (n.) The coxa, or femur, of an insect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
  • (2) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
  • (3) Symptoms include numbness, tingling and pain in the anterolateral thigh.
  • (4) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
  • (5) Chest and biceps circumferences increased 4.2% and 3.1%, respectively; abdomen and thigh circumferences did not significantly change; body fat decreased 16.8%; and body mass increased 2.3%.
  • (6) By placing the thigh in external flexion-rotation the deep femoral artery can readily be approached downstream the first perforating artery.
  • (7) Mean pressures in the thigh approximated more closely to the calculated mean pressures than in the arm.
  • (8) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
  • (9) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
  • (10) Three new and 19 previously reported cases of thigh emphysema secondary to bowel disease are reviewed.
  • (11) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
  • (12) Measurements of cross-sectional muscle areas of the upper-arm and mid-thigh from MRI images were compared to corresponding estimates from anthropometric measurements of limb circumferences and skinfold thicknesses in 25 normal, healthy, elderly persons.
  • (13) Between 1980 and 1990, 24 total thigh flap procedures were performed at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center (Downey, CA) by the Pressure Ulcer Management Service.
  • (14) A low waist-thigh ratio was associated with a high prevalence of varicose veins in women.
  • (15) Wistar rats were infected by injection of 0.05 ml of a dense oily suspension of Staphylococcus aureus into the posterior thigh muscles of the hind leg.
  • (16) In order to assess the efficacy of therapy, manual measurement of the circumference of thigh and leg and echotomography were performed in order to measure the thickness of the muscle layer.
  • (17) Pelvic nerve: vagina, cervix, and perineal skin; hypogastric nerve: cervix and proximal three fifths of the uterus; pudendal nerve: skin of perineum, inner thigh, and clitoral sheath.
  • (18) We report on the use of this flap to resurface the anterolateral aspect of the lower thigh and restore stability and extension to the knee joint following extensive damage to the quadriceps mechanism.
  • (19) No immunosuppressive effect was recognized when injections with HG and MG bacterins were in the left and right thigh muscles, respectively, or from intravenous inoculation with the combined bacterin.
  • (20) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.

Tibia


Definition:

  • (n.) The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.
  • (n.) The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.
  • (n.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
  • (2) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
  • (3) The crus has been elongation 8 cm by Ilizarov method in 9 years old boy and 5 cm elongation of the tibia has been achieved with the use of Bastiani method in 8 years old girl.
  • (4) We report a case of popliteal vein obstruction by an osteochondroma, arising from the proximal tibia, in which the diagnosis was initially missed.
  • (5) The patient described in this report has the classic findings of Bardet-Biedl syndrome in conjunction with tibia vara and irregular physes of the lower extremities.
  • (6) Two cases of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia treated by direct current stimulation are presented.
  • (7) In the control group, only the plates of A-W GC were implanted in the bilateral tibiae of 20 rabbits.
  • (8) The fetal tibia is found to be growing more intensively at its distal end.
  • (9) Accurate rotational osteotomy is especially difficult in a triangular bone such as the tibia.
  • (10) We successfully applied it in the treatment of eight fractures of the shafts of the femur or tibia which would not unite because of infection, soft tissue interposition or gross incongruity of fragments.
  • (11) In the periosteum of the human tibia, the arterial blood supply shows a general sectorial angioarchitecture.
  • (12) Restraint produced regional losses of bone most obviously in the proximal tibia.
  • (13) Collagen fibrillogenesis was studied in tibiae of chick embryos, 9, 11, and 14 days old.
  • (14) Thereafter an account is given of development and morphology of the tibia with dyschondroplastic lesions (retained cartilages).
  • (15) We tested the effects of 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25-(OH)2D3), 2 beta-(3-hydroxypropoxy)-1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (ED-71) and dexamethasone on osteocalcin mRNA levels in rat tibiae in vivo.
  • (16) The knee model is based upon a four-bar linkage comprising the femur, tibia and two cruciate ligaments.
  • (17) The right tibia received Simplex particulate cement polymer and the left leg functioned as a prepared, but nonimplanted, control.
  • (18) By means of 51-Cr labeled red cells and 59-Fe labeled resin particles, the blood volume and blood flow rate in the tibiae were calculated simultaneously as a percentage of the values in the contralateral tibiae.
  • (19) In all cases, the results were bigger for measurements in the laboratory coordinate system compared with the tibia coordinate system, because the movement of the lower leg was included in the measurements in the laboratory coordinate system.
  • (20) The resulting fraction was homogeneous, active in the rat tibia bioassay and had a similar isoelectric point, molecular weight and amino acid composition to mammalian growth hormone.

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