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trochanter

[trō′kan·tər]

(anatomy)

A process on the proximal end of the femur in many vertebrates, which serves for muscle attachment and, in birds, for articulation with the ilium.

(invertebrate zoology)

The second segment of an insect leg, counting from the base.

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where BMD represents the estimated BMD value, k and c are the scaling and offset constants, respectively: TF, FN, FT, FI and WT represent total femur, femoral neck, femoral trochanter, femoral inter-trochanter and femoral ward's triangle, respectively.

A Pilot Study on Hip Bone Mineral Densities Estimation from Forearm CBCT images

Presenting symptoms of lesser trochanter avulsion fractures can be vague, but are usually localized to the groin and medial hip region.

CASE REPORT

Therefore, a line joining the greater trochanter and the lateral epicondyle of the femur was selected as the L line for method 2.

A Novel Method for Localizing Nerve Entry Points During Spasticity Treatment/Un Nuevo Metodo para Localizar los Puntos de Entrada del Nervio Durante el Tratamiento de la Espasticidad

Some authors have stated that osteotomy of the trochanter major may lead to early physeal closure and may cause growth retardation in the proximal femur (15).

Posterior Rotational Intertrochanteric Osteotomy in Femoral Head Deformities

4%), and too much of the lesser trochanter was seen (22.

Effects of clinical reanalysis in dual energy X-ray absorptiometry reports

8 Dislocation of greater and lesser trochanter due to fracture is reduced and fixed with steel wire or cable to restore the muscle attachments.

A clinical study on arthroplasty for failed internal fixation of hip fractures and review of literature

Various characters namely, head height (HH), head width (HW), proboscis length (PL), thorax length (TL), abdomen length (AL), fore wing length (FWL), fore wing width (FWW), cubital index (CI), hind wing length (HWL) and width (HWW), number of hamuli (NH) on hind wing, length of coxa (CL), trochanter (TrL), femur (FL), tibia (TiL), and metatarsus length and width on hind leg (ML and MW) were studied (Fig.

Morphometrics of Apis mellifera after Five Decades of its Introduction in North-Western Himalayan Region of India

ED (Maximum width of femur at its upper end), EF (Intertrochanteric distance), GH (Width of greater trochanter at its upper end), IJ (maximum vertical length of greater trochanter), KL (width of greater trochanter at its lower end).

Correlation of length of femur with its proximal fragments--a morphometric study

The canal flare index (CFI) was the ratio of the intracortical width at the proximal level of lesser trochanter point and at the isthmus (Palierne et al.

The Geometry of the Proximal Femoral Medullary Canal in German Shepherd and Kangal Dogs (#)

First, it can be difficult to palpate the greater trochanter in obese patients, for whom we suggest an additional palpation simultaneously performed on the femoral condyle to help detect external rotation of the hip.

A New Physical Examination Technique for Evaluating Valgus Knee Deformity: Swing Test

sup][2] The typical clinical features are an audible snap, with tenderness over the greater trochanter region of the lateral thigh on hip extension.

Hip arthroscopic tenotomy for combined iliopsoas tendon impingement and snapping hip after total hip replacement

7% (one patient) at the femoral trochanter and there was no patient with osteoporosis in the femoral neck.