Inflammations may arise in the joint structures proper or may extend to it from contiguous structures, such as the cancellous bone ends, the overlying tendons or the periarticular connective tissue.
The soft substance filling the medullary cavities and cancellous extremities of the long bones.
In the Tylopoda and Tragulina the skull resembles in most respects that of the Ruminants, shortly to be described; but it is allied to that of the Suina in having the tympanic bulla filled with cancellous bone.
These horn cores are formed internally of cancellous bone, and on them the true epidermal horns are borne.
A, 9) filled with cancellous bone, and above forms the floor of a long upwardly-directed auditory meatus.
The tympanic is not fused to the periotic and has a small bulla not filled with cancellous bone.
Bone may be compact, or loose and spongy in character, when it is known as =cancellous bone=.
In the one case a solitary vesicle occupies the shaft of the humerus; whilst in the other several “acephalocysts” have taken up their residence within the cancellous structure of the ilium.
Although these were common in cancellous bone, they were comparatively rare in the compact shafts.
Notching or grooving is naturally much more common in the cancellous portions of bones.
The patient then returned to England, when the wound rapidly healed after the removal of some further necrosed fragments of cancellous tissue.
The most typical injury consists in the production of a clean perforation of the cancellous bone; this was common both in the articular ends and in the short bones.
This would be of importance, since the clean puncture of cancellous bone was no doubt favoured by a high rate of velocity.
Actual reversal of the bullet usually only slightly enlarges the aperture of entry, but injuries to cancellous bone are apt to be more severe when the bullet enters in this manner, or again it is often retained.
The slight amount of resistance offered by the cancellous ends was also clinically illustrated by the absence of severe synovial effusions when they were struck.
Putting these peculiarities on one side, the cancellous ends are subject to the type forms of injury; thus perforations either of the head of the bone or the malleolus were common injuries.
The new bone is laid down on the surface, in the Haversian canals, or in the cancellous spaces and medullary canal, or in all three situations.
When the new bone is laid down in the Haversian canals, cancellous spaces and medulla, the bone becomes denser and heavier, and is said to be sclerosed; in extreme instances this may result in obliteration of the medullary canal.
While occasionally met with in tendon sheaths and bursæ, and is then of an orange-yellow colour, the myeloma occurs most frequently in the cancellous tissue at the ends of the long bones, its favourite site being the upper end of the tibia.
Wounds or defects in articular cartilage are repaired by fibrous or osseous tissue derived from the subjacent cancellous spaces.
The spongy or cancellous osteoma is really an ossified chondroma, and is met with at the ends of the long bones (Fig.
With an axe I easily split thecancellous skull and removed the embedded tusk.
Its oil is very good; that flowing from the cancellous bones of the head solidifying on deck at a comparatively high temperature, and when solid, looking like spermaceti.
The bullet under these ballistic conditions of high velocity and not distant range might have bored its way through the cancellous tissue of the epiphysis of the same bone without any fractures.
The energy of the projectile, imparted to small fragments of cancellous tissue, drove them through the wound of exit, and caused the laceration of the superficial tissues.
The same ballistic conditions applied to cancellous tissue at the end of the bone would probably have bored through it without fracture.
Skull with a moderate rostrum, slightly hooked, and the nasal and maxillary processes of the praemaxillae diverging anteriorly; the frontal region flat with but little cancellous tissue.
Skull with a very large and deeply hooked rostrum, and the nasal and maxillary processes of the praemaxilla converging anteriorly; the front region inflated into a sub-conical prominence of cancellous tissue.
Have the market-man saw out a cubic inch from the cancellous tissue of a fresh beef bone and place it on a table with its principal layers upright.
To show how the cancellous structure of bone is able to support a great deal of weight.
Hence this is called cancellous tissue, and the gradual transition from one to the other is apparent.
Short and irregular bones have no medullary canal, only a thin shell of dense bone filled with cancellous tissue.
The offensive smell of the bone, as well as the appearance of its cancellous structure infiltrated with puriform matter, will frequently show in such cases, that the processes above-named have not followed their natural course.
The cancellous structure of bone may be compared to the cellular tissue in soft parts.
If water be injected into the cancellous structure of bone, it will find its way out in drops through the apertures of the nutritious vessels.
Cruveilhier's experiments of introducing mercury into their cancellous structure, and finding it subsequently in the vascular system.
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