The left metacarpal bones were dislocated from the carpal bones, the left tibia was fractured, and there were contusions about the back and hips.
The conditions are not exactly symmetrical, since in some instances a metacarpal or metatarsal bone is wanting; or, to put it otherwise, two are welded together.
The progress of the gangrene was stopped, and the injured finger was disarticulated at the metacarpal articulation.
A digit intimately united along its whole length with another digit, and having either an additional metacarpal or metatarsal bone of its own, or articulating with the head of one which is common to it and another digit.
The Derbian Screamer, Chauna derbiana, has two metacarpal spurs, borne on the first and second metacarpals.
This is composed of five digits, each of which consists of a metacarpal and of a varying number of phalanges.
The second metacarpalin the specimen examined and figured articulates partly with carpale 2, partly with carpale 3.
With them were also found the two bone skates on the table; they are of the metacarpal bone of a small horse or ass, one of which has been much used on the ice.
Exactly similar skates also of themetacarpal of the horse or ass have been found in a tumulus of the Stone Period at Oosterend in Friesland; a drawing of them is given in Lindenschmit's Catalogue of the Museum at Mayence, etc.
The principal metacarpal consists of two metacarpals fused together; on this account the bone is longitudinally marked in the median line by a slight depression which marks the junction of the two bones of which it is formed.
The number of the metacarpal bones in mammals never exceeds five, but it often falls below it; the same is true for the digits.
The metacarpus is formed of three bones: the principalmetacarpal and the two rudimentary ones.
This inferior row carries the metacarpus with it; for the carpo-metacarpal articulation is much less mobile than either of the other two.
The metacarpal bone undergoes, relatively to the humerus, a proportional elongation, analogous to that of the forearm.
The two median metacarpal bones are the longest; they are those which correspond to the digits which alone touch the ground.
The superior extremity of this metacarpal presents plane surfaces, variously inclined, with which the bones of the inferior row of the carpus articulate.
The metacarpal bone of the thumb is very short; the third and fourth are the longest.
The metacarpal bones are five in number; they are enumerated from within outwards; they articulate with the carpus and with each other.
There is also found in ruminants two imperfect rudimentary digits, which are represented by two small bones situated behind the articulation of the metacarpal and the digits which we have just been studying.
The anterior surface of the principal metacarpal is convex transversely; its posterior surface is flattened.
It is the same as regards the metacarpal bones, which form, by their union, the principal metacarpal; the external represents the fourth metacarpal, and the internal the third.
The division of the inferior extremity of the principal metacarpal into two parts is correlated with the two perfect digits which give the foot of the ruminant its forked appearance.
If in the body as a rule the three metacarpal or metatarsal bones are affected, and the fracture is generally transverse and oblique.
It is inserted to the proximal end of the medial metacarpal (inner metacarpal or splint) bone.
An anesthetic solution of cocain or novocain may be applied to the metacarpal or metatarsal nerves and an entirely satisfactory examination is then possible.
Perfect apposition of the broken ends of bone is easily effected and less difficulty is encountered in maintaining such relations in metacarpal fractures than in fractures of the radius.
In the horse it is unusual for fracture of one of the small metacarpalbones to take place without there being at the same time a fracture of the third (large) metacarpal bone.
The carpal joint (erroneously called the knee joint), is composed of the several carpal bones which interarticulate and, when taken as a group, serve as a means of attachment and articulation for the radius and metacarpal bones.
There is incited an inflammation of the periosteum at the site of the interosseous ligament which attaches the small to the large metacarpal bone.
The anterior portion of the capsular ligament forms sheaths for the extensor tendons, and both portions of the joint have an attachment around the distal end of the radius and another at the proximal end of the metacarpal bones.
Anything which will cause undue strain or irritation of the metacarpal bones in young animals, is quite apt to result in a splint being formed.
This condition is one wherein there is osseous formation following a periostitis and the region of the upper portion of the second (inner small) metacarpal bone is the usual site of the exostosis.
The carpal bones as they articulate with one another and with the radius and metacarpal bones, as classed by anatomists, form three distinct articular parts of the joint as a whole and are known as radiocarpal, intercarpal and carpometacarpal.
The head of the metacarpal passes forward between the two heads of the short flexor of the thumb, and the tendon of the long flexor slips to the ulnar side.
The deformity is characteristic: the rounded head of the metacarpal projecting behind the level of the joint, while the base of the phalanx forms a prominence among the muscles of the thenar eminence.
The shaft of the metacarpal of the thumb is frequently broken by a blow with the closed fist.
The metacarpal is adducted, its head forming a marked prominence on the front of the thenar eminence, and the phalanges are displaced backwards, the proximal being dorsiflexed and the distal flexed towards the palm.
The rest of themetacarpal slips backward, forming a prominence on the dorsal aspect of the joint.
Reduction is to be effected by flexing and abducting the metacarpal while the phalanx is hyper-extended and pushed down towards the joint and levered over the head of the metacarpal.
Radiogram of Bennett's Fracture of Base of Metacarpal of Right Thumb.
Bennett's Fracture of the Base of the First Metacarpal Bone.
Any or all of the metacarpal bones may be separated from the carpus by forced movements of flexion or extension.
The carpus, or wrist, possesses the central (os centrale) bone, and the fingers have their metacarpal bones elongated.
The thumbs, even when apparently absent, are represented under the skin by a single bone, the ungual phalanx, which articulates directly with the metacarpal bone.
The long-eared bat, again, has the third metacarpal and its digits somewhat above the mean, and therefore a somewhat more than average length.
But the third metacarpal is two millimetres shorter in 6 than in 5.
It fails, however, in the metacarpal and phalanges of the fifth digit, and in the length of the hind leg as represented by the tibia.
The second metacarpal is the same length in 5 and 6.
But it has the fifth metacarpal with its digit and also the tibia decidedly above the mean, and therefore more than average breadth.
From the carpus downwards the large metacarpal artery, the internalmetacarpal vein, and the internal plantar nerve are in close relation with each other.
From this arch (named the Sesamoidean) proceed the Metacarpal Veins.
This I found a little below the fetlock, about 1/2 inch below the point where the anterior plantar nerve is given off from the metacarpal nerve.
This is an irregular vessel running up between the suspensory ligament and the posterior face of the large metacarpal bone.
Injected subcutaneously over the metacarpal nerves on each side 6 grains of cocaine in aqueous solution.
Injected 2 grains of cocaine in aqueous solution on either side of the limb, immediately over the metacarpal nerves.
Only the main branch of the external metacarpal nerve could be found.
This holds a position to the outside of the metacarpal region, analogous to that of the internal plantar nerve on the inside of the limb, running down on the external edge of the flexor tendons.
Outer toes small and rudimentary, or in some cases entirely suppressed; their metacarpal or metatarsal bones never complete.
Reduction and final loss of outer pair of digits (second and fifth), with coalescence of the metacarpal and metatarsal bones of the two middle digits to form a cannon-bone.
Tuberculous dactylitis# is the name applied to a diffuse form of the disease as it affects the phalanges, metacarpal or metatarsal bones.
In the fingers the incisions should be made in the middle line, and in the palm they should be made over the metacarpal bones to avoid the digital vessels and nerves.
Sarcoma of a phalanx or metacarpal bone may closely resemble a dactylitis both clinically and in skiagrams, but it is rare.
A fascial graft can be employed to act as a ligament permanently extending the wrist; it is attached to the third and fourth metacarpal bones distally and to the radius or ulna proximally.
When growing in the interior of a bone it causes a spindle-shaped enlargement of the shaft, which in the case of a phalanx or metacarpal bone may resemble the dactylitis resulting from tubercle or syphilis.
Chondroma may occur in a multiple form, especially in relation to the phalanges and metacarpal bones.
In the case of a metacarpal or metatarsal bone, sub-periosteal resection is the procedure of choice, saving the articular ends if possible.
Lateral metacarpalbones represented only by their lower extremities; antlers present in both sexes, complex.
This definition will include the living and also most of the extinct forms, although in some of the latter the lateral metacarpal bones not only retain their lower ends, but are complete in their entire length.
The principal metacarpal and metatarsal bones are flatter than they are in any of the Equidae; and the metacarpal bones are longer than the metatarsals, as in the Palaeotheria.
In the Cainotherium, also, the second metacarpal is developed, but is much shorter than the third, while the fifth is absent or rudimentary.
The phalanges of the two outer toes in each foot disappear, their metacarpal and metatarsal bones being left as the "splints.
The fifth has the metacarpal nearly as long, but not so stout as the fourth, and followed by two small phalanges, the last rudimentary and conical.
Being answered in the affirmative, he desired to see his wounds; Captain Cook held out his right-hand, which had a scar upon it, dividing the thumb from the finger the whole length of the metacarpal bones.
The "cannon bone" answers to the middle bone of the five metacarpal bones, which support the palm of the hand in ourselves.
Sometimes, small bony or gristly nodules are to be found at the bases of these two metacarpal splints, and it is probable that these represent rudiments of the first and fifth toes.
First toe represented by a minute rudiment of a metacarpal bone; the fourth by a metacarpal and two small phalanges without a claw, and not reaching the middle of the metacarpal of the third; fifth entirely absent.
A few ivory rings and a tongue-shaped implement or ornament lay beside the body, as well as an instrument or charm made of the metacarpal bone of a wolf.
Bring the extended and separated fingers and thumb loosely to a point, flexed at the metacarpal joints; point them toward the left clavicle, and imitate a dotting motion as if tattooing the skin.
Here the wrist bones follow under the cross cut, then the metacarpal bones, and last the fingers, pointing forward and downward.
I have never seen simple dislocation of any of the metacarpal bones.
If one only is diseased, with the base of the metacarpal or metatarsal bone attached to it, the removal of these will be enough, and can be accomplished without difficulty.
I was obliged to amputate the upper extremity of a young lady a few days ago, in which a metacarpal bone and its articulation, the entire chain of carpal bones, the wrist and elbow joints, were all thoroughly involved in disease.
Amputation of themetacarpal bone is accomplished thus.
Illustration] Unhealthy children are subject to disease of the phalanges, and of the metatarsal and metacarpal bones, excited by slight injury, or originating without apparent cause.
Sometimes bony enlargement occurs, involving many of the phalanges along with several of the metacarpal bones.
They may either be made from below upwards in the usual way, or be commenced at their highest point on the dorsum of the metacarpal bone.
The metacarpal bone of the little finger is removed by the same method of incision as for the thumb.
The metacarpal bones and phalanges of the fingers are subject to fractures, both simple and compound.
The metacarpal bone supporting the little finger most frequently suffers from force applied to the knuckle, as in pugilistic encounters.
Before quitting this part of the amputations, it may be observed, that no good can result from taking away a metacarpal bone and leaving a finger, or from removing a proximal phalanx and leaving the distal.
But in taking away any considerable portion of the metacarpal bone, it is of importance to preserve the palm uninjured.
Frithi), from the Bengal Sanderbans, Java and Siam is distinguished by the peculiar form of its nose-leaf and the length of the metacarpal bone of the index finger, as well as by the shortness of the calcar and interfemoral membrane.
The "hand" has five digits, the first, fourth and fifth of which consist each of a metacarpal and two phalanges; but in the second and third the number of phalanges is different in certain families.
Metacarpals: Metacarpal I nearly square, third longest, second to fourth more constricted.
Metacarpal I oblong, or rather conical, with a lateral enlargement, and situated in line with the distal row of carpals.
The carpo-metacarpal articulations are, with the exception of that of the thumb, gliding joints, and continuous with the great intercarpal joint cavity.
In the four inner fingers these glenoid ligaments, as they are called, are joined together by the transverse metacarpal ligament.
The carpo-metacarpal joint of the thumb is an example.
The carpo-metacarpal joint of the thumb is the best example of a saddle-shaped joint in Man.
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