Thus we cannot judge of the ability of persons to make exertions and continue them, by their stature alone.
Why would it not have been safe to trust these important operations to the exclusive control of the will?
Owing to excitement, they are unable to make flexor and extensor muscles exactly balance each other and the consequence is a tremulous movement that may be complicated by some swaying.
Velpeau advised division of the extensormuscles of the tongue.
Now, if the flexor tendons are cut and the toe straightened the atrophic extensor muscles will not hold it in that position, and when the flexors grow together the old condition will reassert itself.
At moments of hatred, detestation or abhorrence our extensor muscles are affected, as if we would wave these things away from us.
Steadiness in any position is due to a nice balancing ofextensor and flexor muscles requiring the sending down of a continuous stream of impulses.
The power to hold the limbs in a given position is due to a very nice balancing of flexor and extensor muscles.
This over-stretches the extensor muscles and tempts the unbalanced flexors to contract.
The anterior and posterior faces of this region are travelled by the long tendons belonging to the extensor and flexor muscles of the digit.
Knuckling-over in the newborn colt is commonly caused by a weakness or lack of innervation of the extensor muscle of the digit.
If we look at a collier, we see instantly that his back is curved, his legs bowed, and the extensor muscles of his calves withered through long disease.
The cutaneous follicles, markedly on the extensor aspect of the lower extremities, are prominent, similar in appearance and feel to the condition known as goose-flesh.
There is no intercondylar eminence in the intercondylar channel, and the orifice of the extensor foramen opens more longitudinally than in the other genera, and points downwards.
In the tibio-tarsus the cnemial crest rises well above the head; the extensor groove is separated by a considerable interval from the inner border of the bone.
At the sides are the extensor muscles, and in the middle, the heart overlying the alimentary canal.
The structure and known habits of trilobites make it obvious that strong flexor and extensor muscles must have been present, and some trace of them and of their points of attachment should be found.
The areas available for muscular attachment are so disposed as to indicate longitudinal flexor and extensor muscles rather than short muscles extending from segment to segment.
The strongly marked character of the neck-ring of trilobites is probably to be explained as due to the attachment of the extensor muscles, rather than to its recent incorporation in the cephalon.
The =patella= or =knee-cap= is a sesamoid bone due to an ossification in the tendon of the extensor muscles of the leg.
The proximal end of the anterior or extensor surface is drawn out into a very prominent =cnemial crest= which bends over towards the postaxial side of the bone; a slight ridge is continued from it all the way down the shaft.
There are as a rule two small sesamoid bones developed on the ventral or flexor side of the metacarpo-phalangeal articulations, and sometimes similar bones occur on the dorsal or extensor side.
This, of course, partly implicates the joint and the points of the insertion of the extensor tendon.
This is limited in front by the tendon of the extensor pedis, on each side by the lateral ligaments of the joint, and behind by the glenoid fibro-cartilage.
The extensor pedis arises from the lower extremity of the humerus in two distinct portions of unequal size, a muscular and a tendinous.
We then get a necrosis (in the case of toe-crack) of the extensor pedis, and sometimes caries of the os pedis.
The extensor pedis is usually attacked by extension of the disease from a necrotic cartilage, or results from the infliction of a severe tread in a hind-foot.
In the centre of the curve is a triangular process, the Pyramidal Process, which serves as the point of attachment of the extensor pedis.
By having a short flexor and a short extensormuscle of the digits.
Every Monkey and Lemur exhibits the characteristic arrangement of tarsal bones, possesses a short flexor and short extensor muscle, and a 'peronaeus longus'.
This darkening is most marked in situations normally pigmented and in parts exposed to pressure of the clothes, such as the neck, axilla, and inner aspect of the arms, the extensor aspects being less marked than the flexor.
The last two phalanges of index finger could not be moved, it was found, on account of severance of the extensor tendon some years previously.
The extensor muscles were feeble in action, but improved day by day.
The man was treated a year in a center for physiotherapy and was then treated in a neurological center, where a faulty position of the right thigh maintained in extensor rotation and abduction was found.
The right plantar reflex was said to have been extensor at the clearing station, but at Netley it and the other reflexes proved to be normal, as were the optic.
There remained an extensor paralysis of the right leg.
There was a decrease of faradic and galvanic excitability in the extensor communis of the toes and in the external peroneus.
Paralysis of motion was complete except for the extensor longus of the thumb.
Extensor action goes with expansive, flexor with depressive states of mind; hence courage, buoyancy, hope, are favored and handicaps removed.
The innermost tendon of the short common extensor crosses in front of the dorsal artery of the foot near its termination.
The fibrous septum between this muscle and the extensor communis, will serve as a guide to the vessel in the upper third of the leg, where it lies deeply on the interosseous ligament.
Tendon of extensor minimi digiti joining a tendon of extensor communis.
In the middle of the leg, the vessel is to be sought for between the anterior tibial and extensor longus pollicis muscles.
Between the extensor communis digitorum, B b, and the peronaeus longus, F, it sends in a strong process to be attached to the fibula, E.
In the lower part of the leg where these muscles and the extensor pollicis, C, terminate in tendons, a b c, they are readily separable from one another.
The peronaeus tertius or anterior, is that part of the common extensor muscle which is inserted into the base of the fifth metatarsal bone.
Tendons of extensor digitorum communis; A*, tendon overlying that of the indicator muscle.
It can, of course, be seen at once that expansion is due to the activity of the extensor muscles.
At any rate, the extensor muscles are much more important to bring about the right relation of all parts and the right balance of sensitive muscles and the equalization of circulation than the activity of the flexor muscles.
It is primarily activity of theextensor muscles and is vitally connected with all true expansion.
They can be extended only by activity of the extensor muscles.
The stretch is the special and instinctive action of the extensor muscles in response to a distinctive demand for freedom of the organs, or harmony of the whole myological mechanism.
In the stretch for the whole body, for example, we can extend the limbs slowly as far as possible, and there will be a contraction of the extensor muscles.
Again we find that the stretch is activity of the extensor muscles.
Accordingly the so-called extensor muscles of the body need frequent action.
Normal emotions, as we shall find later, are expressed through activity of the extensor muscles.
It is the action of the extensor muscles upon which health especially depends.
And again: "The contraction often involved all of the extensor muscles of the spine, and the trunk formed an arch opening backward and resting upon the occiput and sacrum.
In one of these the joints of the fingers and toes, with the sheaths of the corresponding extensor tendons and both knee-joints and one shoulder-joint, were affected.
The incision is made on the dorsum of the great toe over the offending joint and just to the inner side of the extensor tendon.
It is usually due to infantile paralysis of the extensor muscles, or to cicatrical contraction of the calf muscles, as a complication of hip disease.
It is either congenital or acquired, and in the latter case it is due to infantile paralysis of the extensor and peroneal muscles.
The extensor tendons and the tendo Achillis are tense and prominent.
The patient was discharged in five months, able to walk very well, but owing to the loss of the function of the extensor tendons the toes dragged.
The middle finger had a lateral curvature outward, due to a displacement of the extensor tendon.
The extensor pedis runs down in front of the leg, is attached on the most prominent point of the coffin bone, and has for function the straightening of the bones of the ankle and foot.
The inner lateral cartilage was gangrenous, as was also a small spot on the extensor tendon near its point of attachment on the coffin bone.
If it remains after the local lesion has healed, or if we have no assignable cause, the best results have followed the sectioning of the lateral extensor of the foot.
For the proper treatment of gangrene of the lateral cartilage and extensor tendon and caries of the coffin bone reference may be had to the articles on quittors.
In these cases the injury is generally close to the horn, and often involves the coronary band, the sensitive laminæ, the extensor tendon, and even the coffin bone.
The dorsal lip of this incision is then raised, and the tendon of the extensor carpi ulnaris cut at its insertion, and reflected up out of its groove in the ulna along with the skin.
This vessel is related on its tibial side to the tibialis anticus, and on its fibular, to the extensor longus digitorum above, and the extensor pollicis below.
The soft parts at the radial side are to be carefully dissected up, and the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis longior divided at its insertion.
The cut tendons, and the extensor secundi internodii tendon and the radial artery can thus be pushed outwards, enabling the trapezium to be separated from the carpus by cutting-pliers.
The extensor tendons being relaxed by bending back the hand, the soft parts must be cleared from the carpus as far as possible towards the ulnar side.
The extensor carpi radialis brevior tendon is divided in the incision.
He is to divide the skin, and the extensor tendons, and the muscles in that situation, so as to expose the convexity of the tarsus.
The extensor tendons are then raised from the carpus, and the dorsal and lateral ligaments of the wrist divided, the tendons still being left as far as possible undisturbed in their relation to the radius.
The tendon of the second extensor and its soft parts around were separated from the bones.
He also cuts subcutaneously theextensor tendons to prevent them from cocking up the toe.
It should be as nearly as possible on a level with the upper border of the os calcis, a point which the surgeon can determine, if the dorsum of the foot is in a natural state, by feeling the pit in which the extensor brevis digitorum arises.
The flexor and extensor muscles, which, as I believe, move the upper segment of the pedicel (a and b, Pl.
On each flank, moreover, but more deeply imbedded, are the long flexor and extensor muscles, presently to be described, running to the five posterior thoracic segments.
Hair thick over upper and lower ends of shoulder-blades, thinner over rest of back; well developed onextensor surface of upper arms, and both surfaces of forearms; very thick on extensor surfaces of the latter.
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