How To Use ankylose In A Sentence
- Well," said Jervis, "it might have been a peculiar finger; a finger, for instance, with some characteristic deformity such as an ankylosed joint, which would be easy to identify. The Eye of Osiris
- Few reports address the reconstructive challenge of total knee arthroplasty after a surgically fused or ankylosed knee.
- Why," asks Poincaré, "do certain degrees of freedom appear to play no part here; why are they, so to speak, 'ankylosed'? A Librarian's Open Shelf
- Objective To investigate the possibility of total hip replacement for ankylosed hip joint.
- This is often called the transverse tarsal joint, and it can, with the subordinate joints of the tarsus, replace the ankle-joint in a great measure when the latter has become ankylosed. III. Syndesmology. 7d. Talocrural Articulation or Ankle-joint
- The half-vertebra is, as a rule, ankylosed to adjacent vertebrae.
- They are connected to the body of the bone by fibrous tissue, and occasionally to the greater cornua by distinct diarthrodial joints, which usually persist throughout life, but occasionally become ankylosed. II. Osteology. 5b. 9. The Hyoid Bone
- And besides, if the joint is to be stiffened by callus, it were better that this should not take place when the arm is extended, for this position will be a great impediment and little advantage; if the arm be wholly bent, it will be more useful; but it will be much more convenient to have the joint in the intermediate position when it becomes ankylosed. On Fractures
- n. - joining together of bones or hard parts; resulting stiffness. ankylose, v.i. (of bones) to fuse or stiffen in this way. ankyroid, ancyroid adj. - having shape of hook. Xml's Blinklist.com
- After a straightening by frame treatment, the boy's spine had been ankylosed by an operation; and as every one felt sorry for the little fellow, we were often able to send him gifts. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
