Sentences with phrase «tubercle of»

Most commonly, the plantar fascia is injured at its attachment point on the medial tubercle of the calcaneus.

This head of the deltoid muscle arises (originates) from the acromion process and inserts into deltoid tubercle of the humerus.

The long head originates (starts) on the infraglenoid tubercle of the scapula which means that is crosses the shoulder joint.

Not exact matches

These bumps are called glands of Montgomery or Montgomery's tubercles.

In the later part of the first trimester and the early part of the second trimester, the sagittal sign for a boy is that the genital tubercle points upward.

An ultrasound done before this relies not necessarily on external genitalia but on the direction of the genital tubercle, depending on how early the ultrasound is performed.

You may also notice an increase in the size and number of «Montgomery's tubercles» which are small bumps on the areola.

The appearance of Montgomery tubercles is not a sure sign of pregnancy, but if these bumps appear out of nowhere and you are experiencing other pregnancy symptoms, there is a good chance that you are pregnant.

You may also notice a darkening of the areolas along with Montgomery tubercles.

The new species is readily distinguished from all other species of Psychrophrynella but P. bagrecito and P. usurpator by possessing a tubercle on the inner edge of the tarsus, and from these two species by its yellow ventral coloration on abdomen and limbs.

The trick is in the tubercles, or bumps, along the flippers, says Frank Fish, president of the company WhalePower.

It belongs to a group of rodentlike mammals called multituberculates, named for the numerous cusps, or tubercles, found on their teeth.

They found that 65 percent of tubercle cells from 23 anesthetized mice were activated by at least one of five odors — an important finding in its own, because no one knew if tubercle cells could discriminate odors, a process thought to be exclusive to the part of the brain known as the piriform cortex.

«I was simply trying to find the way the olfactory tubercle responds to odors,» he says, referring to a structure at the base of the brain that was implicated in odor detection only in 2004.

In addition, the males in most species of the genus Calumma have significantly more fluorescent tubercles than the females.

The tissue analyses yielded another surprise: «Our histological 3D reconstruction shows that the skin covering the tubercles on the skull is very thin and consists only of a transparent layer of epidermis, «explains Dr. Martin Heß from the BioCenter of Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität (LMU) in Munich.

Munich researchers have now found that the bony tubercles on the heads of many species fluoresce under UV light and form impressive patterns.

The animation shows the inconspicuous tubercles in sunlight, the fluorescent pattern under UV light, and the underlying bone tubercles, which are based on a micro-CT model of the skull.

Mark Murray, engineer at the U.S. Naval Academy, found that the saw - tooth - like bumps (called tubercles) running up the edge of a humpback whale's fin make the creatures perform better in low - flow water.

The human burden of tuberculosis caused by the bovine tubercle bacillus is still largely unknown.

Oblique Muscle originates (starts) on the external surfaces of the lower 8 ribs, and it inserts (finishes) on the linea alba, pubic tubercle, and the anterior half of the iliac crest.

It extends from the pubic symphysis, pubic crest and pubic tubercle inferiorly, to the xiphoid process and costal cartilages of ribs V to VII superiorly.

In contrast, large - scale cadaver studies (Vangness et al., 1994) describe the origin of the long head attaching quite evenly between the supraglenoid tubercle and the superior glenoid labrum, between 40 - 60 % of the fibers attaching to the supraglenoid tubercle.

The long head of the biceps has traditionally been described as attaching only to the supraglenoid tubercle (Hollinshead, 1958).

The subscapularis muscle arises from the inner surface of the scapula and inserts on the anterior humerus at the lesser tubercle and inferior shoulder capsule.

The long head attaches on the infraglenoid tubercle — a bony process site on the lateral aspect of the scapula, below the glenoid fossa (shoulder socket).

Although larger prime movers such as the latissimus dorsi and teres major produce large shoulder extension moments, the origin of the long head of the triceps on the infraglenoid tubercle also permits the involvement of the triceps in producing a shoulder moment.

The adductor magnus originates on the lower portion of the ischial tuberosity and is inserted onto the tubercle below the medial condyle on the tibia.

The genesis of this myth is the preponderance of small bumps, called tubercles, on the skin of most toads.