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sesamoid bone

NOUN
  1. any of several small round bones formed in a tendon where it passes over a joint

How To Use sesamoid bone In A Sentence

  • A sesamoid bone is occasionally contained within the tendon of the triceps muscle proximal to the olecranon.
  • The fabella is a sesamoid bone of the lateral gastrocnemius muscle.
  • Veterinary Review, Vol. 23, p. 893.] [F.otnote 23: F.acture of All the Sesamoid Bones, by R.F. F.ost, Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • There are eight carpal bones in the wrist, five metacarpals, and 14 nonsesamoid bones that comprise the phalanges.
  • A sesamoid bone may develop in the bicipital tendon over the radial tuberosity.
  • The patella is the largest sesamoid bone in the body and provides increased mechanical advantage for knee extension.
  • It's a fetlock injury; a small flake has come off one of the sesamoid bones.
  • Hunt discovered a high fracture that does not involve the sesamoid bones.
  • The patella is the largest sesamoid bone in the body and provides increased mechanical advantage for knee extension.
  • More properly, the patella may be regarded as a sesamoid bone, developed in the tendon of the Quadriceps; and the ligamentum patellæ, which is continued from the apex of the patella to the tuberosity of the tibia, as the proper tendon of insertion of the muscle, the medial and lateral patellar retinacula (see p. 338) being expansions from its borders. IV. Myology. 8b. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Thigh
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