sesamoid

It is the largest sesamoid bone in the human body.

There are two small sesamoid bones under the first metatarsal head.

The patella is also a form of sesamoid bone in the horse.

Sometimes the sesamoid bone will even fracture and can be difficult to pick up on X-ray.

While on the lead, Ruffian broke the sesamoid bones in her leg.

Sesamoid bones can be found on joints throughout the body, including:

Additionally, there are two sesamoid bones at the metacarpophalangeal joint.

There are between one and four sesamoid bones associated with the stifle joint in different species.

There is also a variable number of small sesamoid bones, commonly found in tendons.

Hilliard had been troubled by the sesamoid bone in his right big toe for the final 10 games of last season.

Examples of sesamoid bones are the patella and the pisiform.

Sesamoid bones have a very limited blood supply.

The human hand has 27 bones, not including the sesamoid bones which number varies between people.

The injuries on the sesamoid bone or the rim of the pastern were avoided.

In addition, the foot sometimes has some small pebble-like bones called sesamoid bones.

This can cause sesamoid fractures & breakdown injuries.

Challenging for the lead just after entering the home straight, he suffered torn sesamoid ligaments and had to be pulled up.

The most well-known sesamoid bone is the patella, more commonly known as the 'knee cap'.

The tissue covering the sesamoid bone was thinning.

Additional head from the sesamoid bone in the outer head of the gastrocnemius muscle.

Walden reported that he had noticed a little filling, or swelling, on Thursday below the horse's ankle near the sesamoid bones.

In mid summer, Brass Hat suffered a sesamoid fracture that kept him out of racing for several months.

Frequently there is a sesamoid bone called the "fabella" in the lateral head of gastrocnemius muscle.

Inter-sesamoidean ligaments: supporting ligaments, run between the two sesamoid bones.

The cyamella is a small sesamoid bone embedded in the tendon of the popliteus muscle.

There are five types of bones in the human body: long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid.

Below these, the arrangement of sesamoid and phalanx bones is the same as in the forelimbs.

In some people, only a single sesamoid is found on the first MTP.

DeOssie broke one of those bones, the sesamoid.

"But the sesamoid," he said, "involves ligaments and usually is career-ending."

His career officially ended yesterday when it was announced that he had been retired because of a fractured sesamoid in his left rear leg.

It was a complete fracture with the bone broken to the outside, as well as a vertical fracture in his lateral sesamoid.

In March 1966, Kelso suffered a hairline fracture of the inside sesamoid of his right hind foot.

In both the giant panda and the red panda, the radial sesamoid is larger than the same bone in counterparts such as bears.

They appear to have a sesamoid, an extra "toe" similar in placement to a giant panda's extra "thumb", that also helps in weight distribution.

The APL sesamoid is present in all non-human primates, but only in about half of gorillas, and normally absent in humans.

Lincoln Road passed the Belmont, where Tim Tam finished a brave second after breaking the sesamoid in his right foreleg after a mile.

Apparently, the mare's caretakers knew that she did not simply have a mild irritation to the sesamoid, as stated at the auction, but a tendon infection that was causing lameness.

The horse's proximal digital sesamoids are simply called the "sesamoid bones" by horsemen, his distal digital sesamoid is referred to as the navicular bone.

After an eight-month layoff, in June 2000 his owner announced the colt was being retired from racing due to a hairline fracture to a sesamoid in his left front leg.

Dr. Larry Bramlage, a veterinarian from Lexington, Ky., reported that the colt had cracked the cannon bone just above the ankle and had fractured the sesamoid behind it.

Recently, scientists at the Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom have discovered that the elephant possesses a sixth false toe - a sesamoid, located similarly to the giant panda's extra "thumb".

Forsythe was a candidate to make the 2012 Opening Day roster as a utility infielder, but a broken sesamoid in his left foot required surgery during spring training and he opened the season on the disabled list.

In equine anatomy, the term sesamoid bone usually refers to the two sesamoid bones found at the back of the fetlock or metacarpophalangeal/metatarsophalangeal joints in both hindlimbs and forelimbs.

Invasor broke his maiden in his debut in Maroñas in late February 2005, winning a 5 furlong maiden race by 6 lengths, but then fractured his right hind sesamoid and required surgery.

Out of racing for a time due to an injury, Placid Ark came back in 1988 to win the Bobby Lewis Quality before a shattered sesamoid resulted in the gelding having to be euthanized.

The title essay presents the paradox that poor design is a better argument for evolution than good design, as illustrated by the anatomy of the panda's "thumb"-which is not a thumb at all-but an extension of the radial sesamoid.

She was transported the 70 miles to Lexington by van this morning, and a few hours later underwent surgery to insert a pin in her right front ankle, where she had suffered a displaced condylar fracture of the cannon bone and an axial fracture of the sesamoid.

This modality typically uses the heel, sesamoid, arch and/or whole plantar surface of foot, and offers large compression, tension and shear forces with less pressure than elbow or thumb, and is ideal for large muscles, such as in thigh, or for long-duration upper trapezius compressions.