How To Use synovial In A Sentence
- Most of our joints are of the synovial variety - they are surrounded by a layer of tissue that produces a fluid, called synovial fluid, which lubricates the joints to reduce friction, help protect the joint surfaces and provide nourishment to cartilage (which has a very limited blood supply). CBS New York- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY
- Thus it seems that subjects of rather faulty conformation, animals having lymphatic temperaments and the coarse-bred types, are prone to synovial disturbances such as thoroughpin, bog spavin, etc., sometimes having both legs affected. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
- If histopathology of a tophus or synovial biopsy suggests gout, fine-needle aspiration may be an alternative for crystal identification and subsequent definitive diagnosis.
- To relate parts and types of synovial plica with clinical symptom and sign as the definite clinical characteristics.
- These little sacs or muco-synovial capsules, under peculiar conditions of traumatism, are liable to become subject to a diseased process, which consists principally in a hypersecretion of their contents and an increase in dimensions, and they may undergo peculiar pathological changes of such character as to disable an animal, and in many instances to cause serious blemishes which can but depreciate its value. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- The hip is a synovial, ball-and-socket joint formed by the head of the femur and acetabulum of the coxal bone.
- Hyaluronic acid is a component of synovial fluid, and is found in the vitreous humor of the eye, the synovia of joints, and in subcutaneous tissue where it functions is as a cementing agent. Do my lips look plump?
- The alar plica or alar folds are prominent crescentic folds of synovial membrane, extending dorsalward on each side of the patella from the base of the infrapatellar synovial fold.
- On either side of the joint, the synovial membrane passes downward from the femur, lining the capsule to its point of attachment to the menisci; it may then be traced over the upper surfaces of these to their free borders, and thence along their under surfaces to the tibia (Figs. 351, 352). III. Syndesmology. 7b. The Knee-joint
- Small penetrant wounds which infect the synovial membranes cause infectious arthritis in some cases, whereas a wound of sufficient size to produce evacuation of all synovia will, in many instances, cause no serious distress to the subject, even when not treated for several days. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1