What's the difference between tibia and tibiotarsal?
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(n.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.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.
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.