The ligamentum nuchae is a strong elastic band in the Ungulata which supports the weight of the head.
Bradypus and Ornithorhynchus, the knee is divided into three parts, two condylo-tibial and one trochleo-patellar, by synovial folds which in Man are represented by the ligamentum mucosum.
In many Mammals, and among them the Orang, there is no ligamentum teres.
He also looks upon the ligamentum teres as the divorced tendon of the pectineus muscle.
This prolongation is known as the ligamentum mucosum, and from the sides of its base spring two lateral folds called the ligamenta alaria.
At the lower part of the patella it covers a pad of fat, which lies between the ligamentum patellae and the front of the head of the tibia, and is carried up as a narrow tube to the lower margin of the trochlear surface of the femur.
The capsule is formed in front by theligamentum patellae, and on each side special bands form the lateral ligaments.
Tenderness may be elicited on making pressure to the medial side of the ligamentum patellæ in the groove between the femur and the tibia, but the meniscus cannot be recognised by palpation.
The strength of the hip-joint depends primarily on its osseous elements--the rounded head of the femur filling the deep socket of the acetabulum, to the bottom of which it is attached through the medium of the ligamentum teres.
If it is proposed to inject iodoform or other drug, the needle is inserted into the interval between the bones on the medial side of the ligamentum patellæ or into the upper pouch when this is distended with fluid.
The ligamentum teres is almost always torn from its femoral attachment, and one or more of the muscles inserted in the region of the trochanters may be ruptured.
Fibroma originating in the ligamentum nuchæ, or the periosteum of the vertebral processes, is of slow growth, but it may attain considerable size, and on account of its deep attachments the operation for its removal may be difficult.
In unilateral cases the ligamentum teres is elongated and thickened; in bilateral cases it is frequently absent.
The ligamentum denticulatum is thus lined on one side by the epiblastic atrial epithelium, and on the other by mesoblastic coelomic epithelium.
On the front of the leg, below the knee, the ligamentum patellae is evident, leading down from the patella (fig.
The vein must be drawn to the outside, and the thread passed round the artery, which lies close to the bone, on the ligamentum posticum of Winslowe.
That no more of the tibia need be retained than what is just sufficient to retain the attachment of the ligamentum patellæ, and to insure its vitality; 4.
A few convulsions of the small intestines were smeared with recent lymph, and one fold was found to adhere closely to the left side of the pelvic peritoneum at the point of reflexion of the ligamentum latum uteri.
Showing the spatula separating the ciliary body and ligamentum pectinatum from the sclerotic.
The head and neck of the bone are not so well supplied with bloodvessels as the other parts; those arteries which pass along the ligamentum teres are the chief support.
Displacement upwards can occur only after laceration of the ligamentum patellæ, the bone being then drawn up by the unresisted action of the muscles on the fore part of the thigh.
The origin is fleshy from the lateral and ventral surfaces of Ligamentum depressor mandibulae.
The origin is fleshy from the lateral edge of the basioccipital where the muscle is attached to Ligamentum depressor mandibulae and extends in a lateral direction to a point where the structures involved turn dorsad.
Intra-articular ligaments, such as the ligamentum teres in the hip, are usually worn away and disappear.
The bursa between the ligamentum patellæ and the tibia is rarely the seat of disease.
In figures 80 and 81 the red does not represent bone as in the other figures, but simply the ligamentum longitudinale superius.
Immediately below this rod is placed the ligamentum longitudinale superius.
The successive elements are connected by fibrous tissue, and are continuous dorsally with a fibrous band, known as the ligamentum longitudinale superius (Plate 42, figs.
Two closely approximated cartilaginous elements now form a key-stone to the neural arch above: these are directly differentiated from the ligamentum longitudinale superius, into which they merge above.
A part of each intervertebral region, immediately adjoining the notochord, does not however undergo this division, and afterwards gives rise to the ligamentum suspensorium.
This membrane stretches from the margin of the lamina spiralis to the ligamentum spirale; the latter being merely an expanded portion of the connective tissue lining the osseous cochlea.
It eventually gives rise to the ligamentum vesicae medium.
The ciliary muscle and the ligamentum pectinatum are both derived from the mesoblast between the cornea and the iris.
At this point of adhesion subsequently firmer strands of connective tissue develop in the serous reduplication forming the ligamentum phrenico-lienale of systematic anatomy.
At the point where the vein enters the liver the thickened margin of the ventral mesogastrium is continued, as ligamentum hepato-duodenale, to the upper part of the duodenum and forms the ventral boundary of the foramen of Winslow.
Porterfield thinks that the crystalline lens has a motion by means of the ligamentum ciliare, by which the distance between it and the retina is increased or diminished, according to the different distances of objects.
Iris angle with particular reference to the ligamentum pectinatum.
The changes that occur in the filtration angle before it is encroached upon by iris tissue are sclerosis of the ligamentum pectinatum in adults to which Henderson (Trans.
The iris recedes from contact with the ligamentum pectinatum and cornea and the filtration angle is again open.
The meshwork of the iris angle (ligamentum pectinatum), a cellular structure at birth, undergoes a progressive and physiological fibrosis with early subsequent sclerosis, until finally it becomes a fibrous structure.
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