acetabular
IPA: ˈæsʌtˈæbjʌɫɝ
adjective
- Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped.
- Related to the acetabulum.
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Examples of "acetabular" in Sentences
- Acetabular branch of medial circumflex femoral artery.
- Acetabular fossa is at centre, inside the lunate surface.
- An acetabular prosthesis for use in an artificial hip joint.
- Fractures which include the acetabular bones cause great pain.
- The hip joint includes a femoral component and an acetabular component.
- The obturator crest extends from the pubic tubercle to the acetabular notch.
- For adults it describes hips showing abnormal femur head or acetabular x rays.
- I now sport a Duroloc (r) 100 acetabular titanium cup with sintered titanium beads for in-bone growth adhesion.
- I also suffered an acetabular fracture of the right hip—a serious derailment, in other words—and an open femoral intertrochanteric fracture in the same area.
- If luxation is downward, traction on the extremity will tend to dislodge the head of the femur from the inferior acetabular margin making reduction possible.
- In the past 10 to 15 years, doctors have discovered one specific cause of hip pain: a tear in the acetabular labrum, a condition in which the cartilage that lines the hip socket is damaged.
- It may be divided into two arches by a vertical plane passing through the acetabular cavities; the posterior of these arches is the one chiefly concerned in the function of transmitting the weight.
- The round ligament (ligamentum teres) is the principal binding structure of the hip joint and it arises in a notch in the head of the femur and is attached in the subpubic groove close to the acetabular notch.
- I had practically no experience of small-calibre bullet injuries to the femoral constituent, and beyond the single case of injury to the acetabular margin mentioned on p. 193 I saw no obvious wounds of the joint at all.
- The acetabular branch arises opposite the acetabular notch and enters the hip-joint beneath the transverse ligament in company with an articular branch from the obturator artery; it supplies the fat in the bottom of the acetabulum, and is continued along the round ligament to the head of the femur.
- At the upper border of the Adductor brevis it gives off two branches: one is distributed to the Adductores, the Gracilis, and Obturator externus, and anastomoses with the obturator artery; the other descends beneath the Adductor brevis, to supply it and the Adductor magnus; the continuation of the vessel passes backward and divides into superficial, deep, and acetabular branches.