The slope from the greater tuberosity to the shaft naturally favours the production of the injury in this position.
Entry, 1 inch above the upper end of the internal margin of the patella; exit, at the margin of leg, just below the outer tuberosity of the tibia.
On examination of the joint, a groove forming three-fourths of a tunnel was found in the external tuberosity of the tibia, leading into the knee-joint beneath the external semilunar cartilage.
An irregular entry wound was situated over the internal tuberosity of the tibia, while a large fluctuating hæmatoma existed in the lower third of the thigh, at the upper part of which a hard elongated body was palpable.
Abduction of the limb therefore brought the greater tuberosity into contact with the acromion process, and movement was checked.
At the same time it will be recognised that the tuberosity does not move with the shaft.
It results from a fall on the buttocks, the entire bone or only the tuberosity being broken.
The tuberosity of the tibia, into which the quadriceps extensor tendon is inserted, lies on the same level as the head of the fibula.
Separation of bony processes, such as the coracoid process, the epicondyle of the humerus, or the tuberosity of the calcaneus, may result from muscular action or from direct violence.
The tuberosity of the navicular is sometimes torn away by violent traction on the ligaments attached to it.
The talo-navicular joint lies immediately behind the tuberosity of the navicular, and a line drawn straight across the foot at this level passes over the calcaneo-cuboid joint.
Avulsion of the #tuberosity of the tibia# occasionally occurs in youths, from violent contraction of the quadriceps--as in jumping.
This is best treated by pegging the tuberosity in position, and fixing the extended limb on an inclined plane to relax the quadriceps muscle.
To prevent the ring overriding the tuberosity and pressing on the soft tissues of the buttock, it is slung by the rope to a cross-bar above the bed, e.
The greattuberosity can be indistinctly felt on the lateral aspect of the shoulder through the fibres of the deltoid.
All the tendons in relation to the upper end of the humerus are stretched or torn, and the great tuberosity is not infrequently avulsed.
The deltoid is usually atrophied, allowing the acromion, coracoid, and great tuberosity of the humerus to stand out prominently beneath the skin.
Sinuses were divided in all directions, and some healed; one, however, remained open, leading towards the gut from near the tuberosity of the ischium on the left side.
Incision is completely limited to two points, either immediately below the tuberosity of the tibia, or in the bellies of the gastrocnemii.
The amputation below the tibial tuberosity being the most frequently required, will, with propriety, be described first.
The direction of this incision is towards the tuberosity of the pubes, inwards and forwards.
It entered posteriorly at the fold between the left nates and thigh, three inches from the tuberosity of the ischium; passed forward, downward, and outward, and made its exit seven inches below the trochanter major.
Eight days after the injury an abscess was opened near the tuberosity of the ischium, and the ball was removed from that spot.
This process is continued till the tuberosity of the os calcis is fairly turned, and the tendo Achillis nearly reached.
The pudic is so well protected from any ordinary incision as to be practically safe; and if wounded by some frightfully extensive incision, it can be compressed against the tuberosity of the ischium.
A line drawn from the centre of the space between the tuberosity of the ischium or the great trochanter to a corresponding point between the condyles of the femur will give the direction.
It should extend from the inner side of the inner condyle of the femur to a corresponding point over the outer one, passing in front of the joint midway between the lower edge of the patella and tuberosity of the tibia.
The ischium often has a well-marked tuberosity and in Kangaroos the pubis bears a prominent pectineal process on its anterior border close to the acetabulum.
The great tuberosity is always large and often overhangs the bicipital groove, it is especially large in Titanotherium (Brontops).
The transverse diameter from one tuberosityof the ischium to the other, measures 4.
Nor is the malar bone a guide, for this might easily be mistaken for the tuberosity of the ischium, or even for the shoulder.
This large pinnate muscle converges, passes through the foramen triosseum, and inserts by a tendon on the external tuberosity of the humerus, immediately proximal to the insertion of M.
The insertion is by means of a tendon on the internal tuberosity of the humerus.
The ventral head passes anterodorsally to join with the dorsal head (not here described), and the combined muscle inserts by a tendon on the internal tuberosity of the humerus.
The combined muscle then inserts by a tendon onto the internal tuberosity of the humerus.
Plate 50, is carried obliquely from above downwards and outwards; but in cases where the tuberosityapproaches the centre, the incision must necessarily be made more vertical.
When the tuberosity of the left ischium stands well apart from the perinaeal centre, the line of incision, B E, Fig.
The ventrolateral border of the bone is expanded slightly and aids in the formation of the tuberosity made by the maxillary bone at the ventroposterior border of the foramen.
As the density of the shadow is not greater than the thickest portion of the bone, the bullet probably lies in front of the border of the outer tuberosity of the femur.
The course of the missile was transverse from the posterior surface of the greater tuberosity of the humerus to the internal border of the scapula, distributing small metallic fragments along its path.
The outer tuberosity lay next to the photographic plate, with the knot in the localizing wire on the inside of the leg and farther away from the plate.
The several heads originate for the most part on the border of the scapula, the deltoid tuberosity of the humerus and the shaft of the humerus.
The dorsal (oblique) ligament is attached above to the distaltuberosity on the inner side of the tibia.
The patellar ligaments are three strong bands which arise from the antero-inferior surface of the patella, and are inserted to the anterior aspect of the tuberosity of the tibia.
This superior extremity presents, internally, a tuberosity into which the biceps is inserted; this is the bicipital tuberosity; and on the other side is another tuberosity, which is a little more prominent than the preceding.
The small tuberosityof the superior extremity of the humerus is but slightly developed; the great tuberosity, on the contrary, is very large.
In the dog and the cat this muscle, which is rather large, arises from the external tuberosity of the tibia and from the crest of this bone.
The deltoid impression well deserves the name of tuberosity which has been given to it, for it is very prominent; the musculo-spiral groove is very deep.
It arises above from the external tuberosity of the tibia, and terminates below in a tendon which is united with that of the gastrocnemius.
In the pig, dog, and cat, it is inserted into the greater tuberosity (trochiter) of the bone of the arm.
It passes towards the arm, to be inserted into the small tuberosity of the humerus.
The spine, which disappears at the extremities, is rough and thick in its middle third, there forming a kind of tuberosity--tuberosity of the spine.
We further note a muscle of the same kind, and presenting the same aspect, which comes from the tuberosity of the ischium.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuberosity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
