Sentences with word «ulnae»

It's also just plain wacky: While the other birds» ulnae are long, thin, and smooth with a knob at each end, the club - winged manakin's ulna is shaped like a club and covered with lumps and bumps.

The other night, in a game with the Celtics, Pettit fractured the ulna bone in his left forearm and will wear a special light cast the remainder of the season.

Finally, the ulna is longer than the humerus in Bunostegos, which is a common trait among non-sprawlers, Turner said.

The way the radius and ulna (forearm bones) join with the humerus forms a hinge - like joint, and wouldn't allow for the forearm to swing out to the sides.

To explore European ancestry further, Willerslev's team extracted DNA from the ulna, or lower arm bone, of a skeleton of a young man discovered in 1954 at Kostenki 14, one of more than 20 archaeological sites at Kostenki - Borshchevo.

Eusthenopteron (385 million years ago): Known from thousands of fossils, the lobe - finned fish's four meaty limbs have the same pattern of bones seen in the limbs of all tetrapods: a single bone nearest the body (your arm's humerus and your leg's femur), two bones farther out (your arm's radius and ulna and your leg's tibia and fibula).

The researchers used X-ray microtomography to examine two different wing bones — the humerus, or upper arm bone, and a lower arm bone called the ulna — in three Archaeopteryx fossils.

The 16th century bones — two femurs (thigh bones) and an ulna (wing)-- have been analysed by University of Exeter archaeologists and identified as among some the first turkeys to be brought to England from the Americas.

The bones — a radius and an ulna — were highly fragile and rapidly decaying.

Tarduno's team unearthed three bird bones: part of the ulna and portions of the humerus, which, in birds, are located in the wings.

(A) Whole - mount alcian blue staining confirms the ulnare is the first carpal formed in avian embryos, distal to the ulna.

«I'm basically finding any ulna I can get,» Turner says.

Turner acknowledges that he could not find quill knobs on all the Velociraptor ulnas he examined.

The distal articular surface with the ulna has mostly eroded away due to taphonomic effects.

Analysis of the digital X-ray pictures is generally performed with respect to bones from the head (zygomatic bone, maxilla, mandibles), teeth, scapulae, clavicle, ribs (number, shape, fusion), pelvis, vertebrae (numbers, shape and potential fusion of cervical, thoracic, lumbar, pelvic and caudal ones), limb bones (humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia), joints, digits and syndactylism.

Finally, the ulna is longer than the humerus in Bunostegos, which is a common trait among non-sprawlers.

The brachialis starts from the mid point of the upper arm and ends at the other forearm bone (ulna).

Consumption of dried plums significantly increased the bone mineral density of ulna and spine in comparison with dried apple.

The elbow joint is a simple hinge joint but most movements involving the elbow joint also involve the radioulna joint where the forearm bones (radius and ulna) join at the elbow joint.

All three heads insert (finish) on to the olecranon process of the ulna.

So, it serves to keep the ends of the radius and ulna from «separating».

One very important muscle attaches to the bones of the forearm, the radius and ulna, just above the wrist.

This muscle, the pronator quadratus, acts to essentially turn the palm downward, in addition to holding the radius and ulna firmly together.

According to one study published in the Natural Medicine Journal, consumption of dried plums significantly increased the bone mineral density of ulna and spine when compared to dried apple (30).

It usually causes less discomfort in the elbow and wrist joints, however, and the radius and ulna are positioned better.

To be fair, I used to have a lot of ulna pain and chest sternum pain when I first started doing regular dips.

It spirals from the back and outside of the forearm to the front, crossing over the space between the radius and ulna...

This is considered to be one of the bones of the ulna.

However, Keener et al. (2010) reported that the lateral triceps tendon actually continues further to the level of the lateral aspect of the proximal ulna and in fact blends with the the superior anconeus fascia and antebrachial fascia.

Also, flexing is more natural in this variant, with the radius and ulna positioned perfectly.

Three weeks after his diagnosis, he underwent a radical 13 hour surgery where 5 inches of his jaw was removed and replaced with his ulna, a bone from his arm.

This can really work in your favor if there is a medical billing error (like I had with the ulna surgery that never happened).

In the end, I discovered that the medical billing code was 1 digit off - meaning they billed me for a broken ulna surgical repair (actual surgery to repair the bone) versus a broken ulna non-surgical consultation.

I had broken my ulna (wrist bone) and gone to urgent care.

Also, our dog did just have ortho surgery to remove a piece of his ulna (temporarily pinned) secondary to elbow dysplasia.

The anconeal process never unties with the ulna, can detach and form a loose body in the joint, called a joint mouse.

Elbow incongruency: if the ulna is shorter than the radius a dynamic proximal ulnar osteotomy is indicated.

Studies suggest that if a UAP is detected early enough, an ulnar osteotomy, which is the cutting of the ulna bone, can be used to reduce stress and potentially allow the UAP to unite normally in a growing puppy.

Fragmented Coronoid Process Small piece of bone broken off the ulna, often referred to as elbow dysplasia.

This involves a medial approach to the elbow joint on the opposite side to surgery for UAP, and both the medial coronoid process of the ulna and the medial condyle of the humerus must be examined carefully.

Usually, an upper arm will be affected first, followed by a femur or ulna, and often the problem will appear in another bone in the original limb or its partner.

Specifically, it occurs in five of the long bones of the appendicular skeleton: the humerus, radius, and ulna of the foreleg, and the femur and tibia of the hind limb.

Fragmented coronoid process (FCP)-- the most common component of elbow dysplasia which involves a loose fragment of bone located on the tip of the ulna within the elbow joint;

Ununited anconeal process (UAP)-- lack of fusion of a growth plate in the back of the ulna within the elbow joint leaving an unstable piece of bone; and

The part on the inner side of the coronoid process commonly becomes separated from the rest of the ulna, thus leading to the descriptive term «fragmented coronoid process.»

The anconeal process is a small piece of bone that is found on the back of the ulna (the longer of the two bones of the forearm) at the rear point of the elbow.

FCP is a developmental defect of one of the coronoid processes, two small bony protrusions on the end of the ulna, within the elbow joint.

The elbow joint is made up of 3 bones, the radius, the ulna, and the humerus.

Normally, as the dog reaches puberty, the growth plate that is found between the anconeal process and the rest of the ulna closes, fusing the parts of the bone together.

The elbow joint consists of three bones (humerus = upper arm bone, radius and ulna = forearm bones) that fit together perfectly to allow flexion and extension motion in the front leg.