NOUN
- one of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached
How To Use trochanter In A Sentence
- Comminuted intertrochanteric fractures:Should the lesser trochanteric fragment be fixated?
- From them we learn that it requires a coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus, ungues, pulvillus, and anterior, medial and posterior spurs to provide a leg for a moth. Moths of the Limberlost
- Femur - ora: the thigh: usually the stoutest segment of the leg, articulated to the body through trochanter and coxa and bearing the tibia at its distal end: in Coccidae and quite commonly, the femur and trochanter are considered as one, for measuring purposes. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- Pain on the outside of the hip is often due to inflammation called trochanteric bursitis.
- It can provide reliable effect with free bodies removal and inoolved synovium resection through posteriolater hip appoach with greater trochanter osteotomy .
- The hip trochanters were at about the level of the iliac crest.
- The thigh markers were carefully placed in line with the markers on the lateral condyles and greater trochanters.
- It arises by a broad aponeurosis, which is attached to the upper part of the intertrochanteric line, to the anterior and inferior borders of the greater trochanter, to the lateral lip of the gluteal tuberosity, and to the upper half of the lateral lip of the linea aspera; this aponeurosis covers the upper three-fourths of the muscle, and from its deep surface many fibers take origin. IV. Myology. 8b. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Thigh
- Sesamoid bones are found occasionally in the tendon of the Glutæus maximus, as it passes over the greater trochanter, and in the tendons which wind around the medial and lateral malleoli. II. Osteology. 6d. 5. The Sesamoid Bones
- BMD was measured at the posteroanterior lumbar spine 1-4, left femoral neck, femoral shaft, trochanter and total hip by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA).