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teres

 [te´rēz] (L.)
long and round.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

te·res

, gen.

ter·e·tis

, pl.

ter·e·tes

(tē'rēz, ter'ĕ-tis, ter'ĕ-tēz),
Round and long; denoting certain muscles and ligaments. See: teres minor (muscle), teres major (muscle), round ligament of uterus, round ligament of liver, pronator teres (muscle).
[L. round, smooth, fr. tero, to rub]
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te·res

, pl. teretes (tĕr'ēz, -ĕ-tēz)
Round and long; denoting certain muscles and ligaments.
[L. round, smooth, fr. tero, to rub]
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Maciel et al (2015) reported a case of isolated teres major tendon rupture caused by overarm throwing; this athlete was able to complete the match in which the injury occurred, before subsequent return to play after 18 days.
At 6 months, the patient performed an isokinetic test, evaluating the teres major (medial rotator).
The present study suggested that abnormal disk-shaped tissue, which was found overlying the surface of the acetabulum and connected with the labrum during surgery, were inverted acetabular labrum rather than torn acetabular cartilage or other tissues (e.g., aberrant ligamentum teres of the femur).
El musculo redondo mayor (teres major), aplanado lateralmente, se origino en el angulo y parte proximal del borde (margo) caudal de la escapula y por una aponeurosis se inserto en la depresion que reemplaza a la tuberosita teres (Figura 3).
While passing toward the interosseous membrane, the common interosseous artery was separated from the median and anterior interosseous nerves by the ulnar head of the pronator teres muscle (Figure 2).
After its formation, the median nerve reaches at the upper border of pronator teres and then it passes between the two heads of the pronator teres muscle.
Thus, the PHCA could not pass through its usual topographical site - the quadrangular space (foramen humerotricipitale)- but after leaving the trunk, it coursed underneath the fused tendons of the proximal teres major and distal latisssimus dorsi.
Portal vein anomaly associated with deviation of the ligamentum teres to the right and malposition of the gallbladder.
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