All the muscles attached to the upper end of the humerus are liable to be torn, and the tuberosities are frequently avulsed.
When the great tuberosity is torn off, considerable antero-posterior broadening of the shoulder may be recognised by grasping the region of the tuberosities between the fingers and thumb.
Fractures of the Head, Anatomical Neck, andTuberosities of Humerus.
On grasping the elbow and moving the shaft, it is found that the head and tuberosities do not move with it, and unnatural mobility and crepitus at the seat of fracture may be detected.
The tuberositiesof the humerus form the convexity of the shoulder.
Flexion of the leg to a right angle, increases the distance from the lines of insertion on the pelvic bones to the tuberosities of the tibia by two or three inches--an amount of stretching these muscle cannot undergo.
In the Dugong and Rhytina there is a bicipital groove and the tuberosities are distinct, but in the Manatee there is no bicipital groove, and the tuberosities coalesce.
The head and tuberosities of the humerus ossify from one centre, the shaft from a second, and the trochlea and condyles from a third.
The ischialtuberosities are large in the old world monkeys.
There is no bicipital groove, and the tuberosities coalesce.
Sternum very convex, and with a very nearly straight anterior border between the tuberosities for the coracoscapular ligaments.
Thus, on Vinifera varieties the tuberosities are several times larger and decay sets in much more quickly than on American species which show these tuberosities.
These tuberositiesdecay more or less rapidly and deeply, and when they rot deeply cause enfeeblement or death to the vine.
In other plants of the kind, the tuberosities are proportionate to the size of the plants, and their visible means of nourishment.
The green tuberosities commonly found on the stem of the plant were eagerly sought after by our Chinese followers, who regard them as a valuable medicine.
The site of this bond is evident in the tuberosities and sculpturing of the base of the baculum.
These tuberosities are visible under the skin which covers the superior and lateral parts of the region known as the knee; but which, we again repeat, is no other than the wrist.
We shall see afterwards, when dealing with some special quadrupeds, that in some of these, on the other hand, the tuberosities are on a higher level than the articular head of the bone.
Between the two tuberosities is the bicipital groove.
Contrary to what we have indicated in the case of the dog, the distance which separates the ischiatic tuberosities is inconsiderable in proportion to that which we find between the external iliac spine of one side and that of the opposite.
All have dark brown nuptial tuberositieson the pollex.
There are no nuptial tuberosities on the pollex of breeding males.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuberosities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
