Sentences with phrase «femoral head bones»

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So does its femoral head, the rounded end of the leg bone that fits into the pelvis.

The level of activity and the developmental age of humans is suggested by the angle that the femoral head and neck (the part that articulates with the hip) makes with the main shaft of the bone.

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Femoral Head and Neck Excision is a surgery that involves removing the tip of the femur (the neck and the head of the bone), replacing it with a fibrous joHead and Neck Excision is a surgery that involves removing the tip of the femur (the neck and the head of the bone), replacing it with a fibrous johead of the bone), replacing it with a fibrous joint.

The ball is the femoral head, the knob at the top of the upper leg bone or femur.

With time, the top surface of the femoral head will become flattened and misshapen as the cartilage and underlying bone collapses.

Muscles hold the bone against the hip / The muscle holds the femoral head in place against the acetabulum, the cup that holds the bone.

Various techniques are used, ranging from rearranging the pelvic bones or femoral head for more efficient joint function, to hip replacement.

Legg - Perthes disease: a disease where the blood vessels feeding the femoral head (top part of the thigh bone) shrink, leading to starvation and death of the femoral head (the ball of the ball - and - socket joint of the hip).

Your veterinarian will slowly cut small pieces of your dog's pelvic bone away so that your dog's hip socket can rotate over the femoral head.

Working with veterinarians skilled in reading the subtleties of X-ray images, the Hip Dysplasia Registry of the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, assigns nine variations of congruity and fit between the femoral head (top of the thigh bone) and the acetabulum (hollow area in the pelvic bone into which the thigh bone fits):

With help of our Duke's Fund, Porter received femoral head ostectomy — a procedure that removes part of the damage femur to alleviate pain the cat is experience from a shattered bone.

This is an avascular (pertaining to inadequate blood supply), aseptic (not infected), developmental osteonecrosis (dying of bone tissue) of the femoral head and neck, found almost entirely in toy or other small breeds.

The procedure involves a surgical breaking of the pelvic bones and a realignment of the femoral head and acetabulum restoring the coxofemoral weight - bearing surface area and correcting femoral head subluxation.

The bones (femoral head and acetabulum) are coated with smooth cartilage so that motion is nearly frictionless and the bones glide smoothly across each other's surface.

Here, the femoral head is cut off and removed, allowing the joint to heal as a false joint (just a capsule connecting the two bones but no actual bone to bone contact).

Indications include developmental bone problems such as avascular necrosis of the femoral head (Legg - Perthes Disease), irreparable fractures, hip luxation that can not be successfully managed by other methods, and arthritis for reasons other than joint infection.

An FHO, or femoral head ostectomy, is a surgical procedure that aims to restore pain - free mobility to a diseased or damaged hip, by removing the head and neck of the femur (the long leg bone or thighbone).

A femoral head and neck ostectomy, or FHO was performed, and is a procedure that includes removing the top part of the thigh bone involved in the ball - in - socket hip joint.

While the major reason for hip replacement is to treat disabling HD, other disorders can also benefit: Legg - Calvé - Perthes disease, permanent dislocation from trauma, bad fracture of the femoral head and neck, hereditary or environmental defects in union of bone centers, and excision arthroplasties that have failed to solve the problem.

For some reason, the blood supply is reduced to one or both femoral heads causing the surface of the bone and cartilage covering it to necrose, or die.

Serious fracture injuries such as fractures of the spine or femoral head (your hip bone) may not be readily apparent to a simple X-ray, and more tests such as a CAT scan or MRI may be required.

Doctors have found that the porous non-cement femoral component of the device (the part that covers the head of the femur or thigh bone) is prone to high failure rates.