Reduction is effected by adduction or abduction of the foot.
The most frequent cause is a forcible adduction of the foot combined with violence acting in the direction of the long axis of the foot.
In order to correct the extreme adduction in these cases, extreme force must sometimes be employed.
Of the movements performed by the humerus, flexion and extension are the most extensive; those of abduction and adduction are much less so.
Thus, I had acquired the proof that, not only does the total adduction of the thumb characterize death, but that this phenomenon indicates the approach of death in proportion to its intensity.
I noticed nurses who were distracted and indifferent to the children under their charge; in these the thumb was invariably drawn toward the fingers, thus offering some resemblance to the adduction which it manifests in death.
I noticed, in fact, that in all these corpses the thumb exhibited a singular attitude--that of adduction or attraction inward, which I had never noted either in persons waking or sleeping.
Voluntarily, flexion of the wrist was good, abduction and adduction incomplete; extension could not be executed to the horizontal position.
Flexion was not quite complete, nor were adduction or abduction.
The fifth finger could not be abducted and both abduction and adduction of the third and fourth finger could not be made on account of the nerve lesion.
The vocal cords of the larynx appeared normal on laryngoscopic examination, but adduction of the cords was not be properly effected.
Weak extension and abduction of the thumb but without opposition could be voluntarily performed; adduction good; flexion of the first phalanx, weak; of second phalanx, better.
In dorsal decubitus, the leg lay in adduction and internal rotation.
We have to consider only that adduction of facts and explanation, simple or complex, in a more or less skilful, intentional or unintentional manner, by means of which we are convinced at least for a moment.
But on the one hand if this is important it will already have been touched in the adduction of evidence, and on the other hand such points are
generally banal and indifferent to the real issue in the case.
The supposition that she wanted to get rid of him in order to marry somebody else was now inevitable; and as this somebody else was looked for and discovered, the adduction of evidence of her guilt was no longer difficult.
Forced abduction favours the displacement to the ulnar side; adduction to the radial side.
In spastic paralysis of cerebral origin, the tendency is towards contracture, usually in the attitude of flexion, with adduction and inversion.
Dislocation# is a rare complication of hip disease, and is most likely to occur during the stage of adduction with inversion.
Coxa Vara, showing adduction curvature of neck of femur associated with arthritis of the hip and knee.
The adduction element of the deformity is partly compensated for by upward tilting of the pelvis on the affected side and curvature of the spine with its concavity towards the affected limb.
The flexion and adduction of the limb favour the occurrence of dislocation.
When adduction is pronounced, the patient is unable to restore the normal parallelism of the limbs, and the knee on the affected side may cross the sound limb.
The nature of the accident, the absence of broadening of the trochanter, and the adduction and inversion of the limb are usually sufficient to prevent a dislocation being mistaken for an impacted extra-capsular fracture.
One or other of the condyles may be chipped off by forcible adduction or abduction at the knee.
There may be a simple adduction bend of the neck, the head sinking to, or even below, the level of the great trochanter (Fig.
Adduction of the thumb is carried out, not by the paralysed adductor pollicis, but the movement may be simulated by the long flexor and extensor muscles of the thumb.
Adduction and abduction movements of the fingers are lost.
In the course of synapsid evolution leading to mammals, the temporal presumably became the main muscle mass acting in adduction of the lower jaw.
The anterior pterygoid aided in initiating adduction in Captorhinus, whereas in Dimetrodon this muscle was adductive throughout the swing of the jaw.
The adductive component of force therefore decreased as the jaw swung upward, with the result that the anterior pterygoid could only have been active in initiating adduction and not in sustaining it.
Whether such abrasion was due to contact in simple vertical adduction or in anteroposterior sliding is impossible to determine, but the evidence considered above indicates the latter probability.
Flexion, inversion, andadduction of the thighs also occurred.
Synchronously with these rhythmical clonic alternations of adduction and abduction occurred tonic contractions of the masseters and clonic contractions of the palate, tongue, and forearm.
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