tuberosity
IPA: tˈubɝˈɑsʌti
noun
- (uncountable) The condition of being tuberous
- (countable, anatomy) A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached
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Examples of "tuberosity" in Sentences
- It can be fractured along with the tibial tuberosity.
- Rostral to the facial tuberosity, dorsal to the first molar tooth.
- It is important that the examiner's thumb be on the tibial tuberosity.
- Medial to this, in turn, is the lesser tuberosity of the humeral head.
- It inserts at the iliotibial band and the gluteal tuberosity of the femur.
- The patellar ligament connects the patella to the tuberosity of the tibia.
- At one end the frame has a pad for engagement with the ischial tuberosity.
- The biceps muscle attaches to the tuberosity of the upper extremity of the bone.
- The slope from the greater tuberosity to the shaft naturally favours the production of the injury in this position.
- Abduction of the limb therefore brought the greater tuberosity into contact with the acromion process, and movement was checked.
- _Entry_, 1 inch above the upper end of the internal margin of the patella; _exit_, at the margin of leg, just below the outer tuberosity of the tibia.
- In front of the upper end of the bone, between the condyles, is an oval eminence, the tuberosity, which is continuous below with the anterior crest of the bone.
- On examination of the joint, a groove forming three-fourths of a tunnel was found in the external tuberosity of the tibia, leading into the knee-joint beneath the external semilunar cartilage.
- Short head: coracoid process of scapula with coracobrachialis INSERTION posterior border of bicipital tuberosity of radius over bursa and bicipital aponeurosis to deep fascia and subcutaneous ulna
- Don't forget: two-three inches above your wrist bone, you have a "bracelet"; and somewhere on your humerus between the greater tuberosity and the deltoid tuberosity, much closer to the former is your "cap."
- An irregular entry wound was situated over the internal tuberosity of the tibia, while a large fluctuating hæmatoma existed in the lower third of the thigh, at the upper part of which a hard elongated body was palpable.
- Drill-mangabeys, drills and mandrills are also united by particularly large, rounded posterior premolars, a robust ilium, a reduced gluteal tuberosity on the femur, sharp borders to the margins of the patellar groove, and other characters.
- In consequence of this circumstance, the parts of the occipital bone which lie above and below the tuberosity make a much more acute angle with one another than is usual, whereby the hinder part of the base of the skull appears obliquely truncated.