(n.) An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.
Example Sentences:
(1) A popping phenomenon was observed between the coracoacromial ligament and the greater tuberosity of the humerus, which was covered by the rotator cuff, and the coracoacromial ligament was resected with a rongeur under endoscopic visualization in all shoulders.
(2) A graft of epithelial and connective tissue was taken from the maxillary tuberosity and placed into the defect.
(3) There was a significant difference between the groups in the position of the perineum with respect to the ischial tuberosities at rest (p less than 0.025) and on defaecation straining (p less than 0.005).
(4) There was an associated fracture of the greater tuberosity of the humerus, which required open reduction and internal fixation.
(5) An example of a rare peripheral ameloblastic carcinoma of the maxillary tuberosity is presented.
(6) With respect to the fracture type and extent of displacement of the humeral head and the tuberosities the concepts for treatment remain controversial.
(7) The physis of the tibial tuberosity is composed primarily of fibrocartilage and fibrous tissue, with bone being added to the anterior portion of the tibial metaphysis by membranous bone formation.
(8) Mandibular conduction anaesthesia via the tuberosity approach did not show any particular advantage over the other 2 techniques in this investigation.
(9) Increases in skin temperature averaging 2.3 C to 2.5 C under the ischial tuberosities and 3.2 C to 3.5 C under the thighs were noted when the subjects sat on either of the latex rubber cushions.
(10) In addition to traditional medial transfer of the tibial tuberosity, lateral release, and medial joint capsule duplication, vastus medialis transposition and deepening of the intercondylar sulcus on the proximal joint surface of the femur were done.
(11) Excellent or satisfactory results were obtained in all six patients with two-part fractures involving the surgical neck; in four of the five patients with three-part fractures involving the surgical neck and tuberosities; in nine of the 11 patients with fracture-dislocation; and in two of the three patients with split fractures of the humeral head.
(12) A case of peripheral ameloblastoma is presented which was located in the right maxillary tuberosity area in a 52-year-old caucasian male.
(13) After excluding cases in which there was concomitant disease (neurofibromatosis, tuberose sclerosis, or multiple sclerosis), 18 cases of multicentric tumor (7.5%) remained.
(14) A review of 12 cases of transverse proximal diaphysial fractures 3.0 cm distal from the fifth metatarsal tuberosity with a 2-year follow-up is presented.
(15) The comparison related to chronological age documented a morphologic change of the greater tuberosity and progressive degeneration of all elements of the tendinous structures with progressive (1) osteitis of the greater tuberosity, cystic degeneration, and irregularity of the cortical margin; (2) degenerative sulcus between the greater tuberosity and the articular surface; (3) disruption of the integrity of the attachment of the tendon to the bone by Sharpey's fibers; (4) loss of cellularity, loss of staining quality, and fragmentation of the tendon; (5) diminution of the vascularity of the tendon; and (6) diminution of fibrocartilage.
(16) When surgical reduction is not possible for edentulous patients with little space between the retromolar pad and the maxillary tuberosity, dentures are most often made quite thin and as such are prone to fracture.
(17) Of 14 patients with navicular tuberosity avulsion, seven had damage to the anterior process of the calcaneum at the calcaneocuboid joint--possibly the result of an occult subluxation of the midtarsal joint.
(18) The condition in which pain is felt over the area at the ischial tuberosity and radiating down the back of the thigh is labelled the hamstring syndrome.
(19) A bone block including the attachment of the patellar tendon is transposed medially to correct the quadriceps angle (Q-angle), elevate the tibial tuberosity, and thereby decrease patellofemoral pressure.
(20) Whether isolated or associated with phacomatoses, they are histologically identical and the hypothesis which suggests that isolated angiomyolipomas represent a forme fruste or tuberose sclerosis is attractive.
Tuberous
Definition:
(a.) Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
(a.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(2) This paper describes a family in which the first child, a girl born in 1988, has tuberous sclerosis (TS).
(3) Tuning curves of afferent electroreceptive fibers in the anterior lateral line nerve of the weakly electric fish, Sternopygus macrurus, indicate that the tuberous electroreceptors of each individual are well-tuned to its own electric organ discharge (EOD) frequency.
(4) 100 degrees C. Thus residues did not migrate into the flesh of the tubers.
(5) Aromatase immunoreactive cells (ARO-ir) were found in the medial preoptic nucleus, in the septal region, and in a large cell cluster extending from the dorso-lateral aspect of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus to the tuber at the level of the nucleus inferioris hypothalami.
(6) Injections of horseradish peroxidase into the telencephalon retrogradely labeled neurons ipsilaterally in various thalamic, preglomerular, and tuberal nuclei, the nucleus of the locus coeruleus (also contralaterally), the superior raphe, and portions of the nucleus lateralis valvulae.
(7) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(8) A simple and efficient method is presented for the extraction, cleanup, and liquid chromatographic (LC) determination of oxamyl residues in potato tubers.
(9) The study of the selective renal arteriogram enables preoperative diagnosis of angiomyolipoma even when not associated with tuberous sclerosis, and a partial nephrectomy.
(10) The association of diffuse lipomatosis with tuberous sclerosis is reported.
(11) Developing pyramidal cells in the remaining three tuberous organ-receptive lateral ELL segments are unreactive.
(12) CD rats were much less responsive to mPOA stimulation (spaced electrodes) than O-M rats, but the responses of both strains to tuberal stimulation were essentially alike.
(13) It did not allow distinction between true pachygyria, focal cortical dysplasia, or the forme fruste of tuberous sclerosis.
(14) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
(15) The export of pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and cellulase and the maceration of potato tuber tissue occurred with Out+, but not Out-, strains of E. carotovora subsp.
(16) We conclude that neurons in the lateral tuberal nucleus show an early stage of AD-related cytoskeletal pathology (Alz-50 positivity), but without plaques or neuronal death.
(17) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(18) Western blots of extracts from P(i)-deficient cells were probed with rabbit anti-(potato tuber PFP) immune serum and revealed equal intensity staining immunoreactive polypeptides of M(r) 66,000 (alpha-subunit) and 60,000 (beta-subunit) that co-migrated with the alpha- and beta-subunits of homogeneous potato tuber PFP.
(19) In six patients the clinical symptoms were atypical; in those instances computed tomography makes diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis possible.
(20) Angiomyolipomas produce pathognomonic appearances on modern imaging methods and a tissue diagnosis is no longer required particularly when multiple tubers can be confidently diagnosed and if a CT brain scan shows periventricular calcifications.