What's the difference between trapezate and trapezium?
Trapezate
Definition:
(a.) Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.
Example Sentences:
(1) I used to do trapeze and aerial acrobatics, and I always danced ballet, jazz and street dance.
(2) In another group initial reduced weight-bearing was obtained by hanging the sheep in a special trapeze.
(3) Pink, mother, self-proclaimed feminist, basically wore medical tape and body glitter on a trapeze at the Grammys ?
(4) Birds coming to the feeder were weighed on a trapeze perch suspended from a force transducer.
(5) "With the support of each other and the adults urging them on, before you knew it several of them were at the top and doing this incredible leap of faith, jumping across to catch a trapeze.
(6) (Given that Philo took the ubiquitous tote bag, added pleasing angles and symmetry, and produced her It bag, the Trapeze, this new framed-bucket shape is likely to be one to watch.)
(7) Two days later I took myself down to its flagship London store in Regent Street and bought my first ever Jaeger dress, a trapeze shape with a flouncy hem.
(8) Skin-fat or skin-fascia trapeze flaps prevent the relapse of contracture and make the weakened scars softer, which, as a rule, ensures a good functional and aesthetic result.
(9) There are bags whose extended side-panels recall the famous Celine Trapeze tote .
(10) That’s one reason I love live comedy – the room can seem more alive than for any other performance, although actually it’s often as tight as a trapeze act.
(11) It featured on a trapeze dress with a deep V, and was spliced with other abstract prints in pumpkin orange and bright blue on chiffon pleats.
(12) Because after its original test screening, a woman sued MGM claiming it had forced her to miscarry, thus prompting the studio to perform cuts on the film so savage that they unwittingly reenacted the brutal mutilation meted out in revenge to its leading “normal” protagonist, who starts out as Cleopatra of the trapeze, and ends up as the legless, tarred-and-feathered Chicken Lady.
(13) These signs and symptoms were found in individuals who experienced negative (toward the head) force while rotating on a horizontal bar or hanging from a trapeze.
(14) They differed in the degree of somatosensory-motor opportunity available during development in that the Cond 2 chamber was empty, whereas Cond 3 contained ladders, a trapeze, and play objects.
(15) He swings his legs over a makeshift trapeze and lets himself fall back.
(16) On the Scotsman's front page, underneath a picture of Yang Guang's trapeze routine, the caption read: "Tian Tian has started calling out to Yang Guang, who has been peering into her cage."
(17) For each contracture type, there are trapeze-flap variables either in pure form or in combination with the transposition of split-thickness skin with a flap to create a flexible joint zone.
Trapezium
Definition:
(n.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
(n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
(n.) A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe three patients in whom this complication occurred after Silastic replacements of the carpal scaphoid and trapezium bones.
(2) The wrist motion remaining after simulated arthrodeses was as follows: capitate-hamate: flexion (Flx) 98%, extension (Ext) 92%, ulnar deviation (UD) 96%, radial deviation (RD) 90%; scaphoid-lunate: Flx 97%, Ext 91%, UD 90%, RD 91%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid: Flx 86%, Ext 88%, UD 67%, RD 69%; scaphoid-lunate-triquetrum: Flx 91%, Ext 82%, UD 86%, RD 70%; capitate-lunate: Flx 70%, Ext 59%, UD 89%, RD 79%; capitate-hamate-triquetrum: Flx 88%, Ext 79%, UD 88%, RD 81%; hamate-triquetrum: Flx 90%, Ext 85%, UD 89%, RD 94%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid-capitate: Flx 85%, Ext 77%, UD 64%, RD 57%.
(3) Twenty-five patients who presented with symptoms of disabling pain secondary to arthritis at the base of thumb had 29 arthroplasties with silicone rubber trapezium implants.
(4) Although the design features of the Niebauer implant offer theoretical advantages for stability and fixation, this study does not demonstrate better results compared with other types of silicone trapezium implants.
(5) Operation, consisting of resection of the trapezium and shortening by 1.5 cm of the abductor pollicis longus tendon was performed on 16 thumbs.
(6) If there is localized uptake in the area of the trapezium, additional radiographic studies may be necessary to confirm or exclude this fracture.
(7) The fracture of the trapezium can prevent the normal mobility of the thumb, and therefore an anatomical reduction is desirable.
(8) Osteoarthritic involvement of more than one of the articular surfaces of the trapezium was found in a group of 31 hands.
(9) The area under each sensitivity gradient was determined using the trapezium rule.
(10) The first point of reference is fixed and consists of a line projected through the radial articular surface of the second metacarpal with the trapezium.
(11) Trapezium-scaphoid-trapezoid subluxations and trapezoid-capitate-scaphoid-trapezium subluxations or dislocations are rare.
(12) The present study deals with patients in whom the diagnostic procedures applied in rhizoid arthrosis were considered to reveal scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid (STT) arthrosis.
(13) We studied 18 patients ranging in age from 16 years to 57 years who presented 8 to 78 months (average, 31.7 months) after silicone arthroplasty (four scaphoid, six lunate, one scapholunate, four finger, two wrist, one trapezium, and one ulnar head for metacarpal hemiarthroplasty).
(14) Fractures of the body of the trapezium are uncommon.
(15) After excision of the trapezium, a strip from the flexor carpi radialis was wound around the main portion of the flexor carpi radialis tendon and the abductor pollicis longus.
(16) The patients treated by resection of the trapezium and tendon interposition were more satisfied and had less pain than those treated by implantation of a Swanson prosthesis.
(17) Having performed 100 anatomical dissections we found that in the first dorsal compartment of the wrist besides other tendons there are one or two tendons belonging to a musculo-tendinous unit, not yet described, inserting in the trapezium and acting almost together with the other units going to the first metacarpal.
(18) Excision of the trapezium gave good results with respect to pain relief, but there was loss of thumb stability and strength.
(19) Relationships between the younger, single members of staff were purest catnip to us; we were always turning love triangles into love trapeziums.
(20) The physio-pathology of fractures of the trapezium was investigated by personal experiments conducted in the laboratory on 26 wrists and showed 3 main mechanisms: a fall on the hand with the wrist extended and radially deviated (Manon) and direct commissural trauma combined with various degrees of shearing described by Monsche.