sesamoid bone

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ses·a·moid bone

[TA]

a bone formed after birth in a tendon where it passes over a joint, for example, the patella.

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sesamoid bone

(1) A bone located in the tendons of the flexor hallucis brevis on the plantar aspect of the foot, which help redistribute and attenuate force over the first metatarsal head during the toe-off portion of gait or propulsion.
(2) A membranous bone formed in a tendon in response to joint stress (e.g., patella).

ses·a·moid bone

(ses'ă-moyd bōn) [TA]

A bone formed after birth in a tendon where it passes over a joint (e.g., the patella).

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

sesamoid bone

A bone lying within a tendon to assist in its mechanical action and to bear pressure. The most conspicuous sesamoid bone is the knee cap (patella).

Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

References in periodicals archive ?

Kang, "Symptomatic hallucal interphalangeal sesamoid bones successfully treated with ultrasound-guided injection," Korean Journal of Pain, vol.

Stenosing Tenosynovitis of the Flexor Hallucis Longus Tendon Associated with the Plantar Capsular Accessory Ossicle at the Interphalangeal Joint of the Great Toe

The patella is an example of a sesamoid bone, as is the navicular bone, which is in the hoof of the horse at P3.

Chapter 4 Animal anatomy

''He smashed a sesamoid bone on the same foot as a foal and the vet who examined him today said he couldn't believe he was still racing.''

Time right at last for Memoires; RACING

Although Hippocrates, by the fourth century BC, uses the term epimulis (Gersh, 2012) to refer to the knee, it does not refer at all to the sesamoid bone of that region.

Onomatology of the Term Patela: From Ancient Greece to America/ Onomatologia del Termino Patela: Desde la Antigua Grecia hasta America

THE sesamoid bone sits at the back of the fetlock joint and anchors the suspensory ligament, thus allowing a horse's foot and fetlock to move properly.

WHAT IS THE SESAMOID BONE?

The fabella (Latin for "little bean") is a sesamoid bone that is visible at radiography in approximately 10-30% of the general population and is found bilaterally in most cases [1].

Fabella Fractures after Total Knee Arthroplasty with Correction of Valgus Malalignment

Technically, it is a ligament (connecting a bone to a bone), but it has often been referred to as a tendon because the patella is a sesamoid bone. The average length of the patellar tendon is 40-53 mm [15, 16, 18, 19].

Bone-patellar tendon-bone graft preparation technique to increase cross-sectional area of the graft in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction/ Tehnika obrade kost-ligament casice-kost kalema za povecanje povrsine poprecnog preseka kalema kod rekonstrukcije prednjeg ukrstenog ligamenta kolena

Sesamoid bone fractures of metacarpophalangeal joint of thumb are very rare.

Rare case of ulnar sesamoid fracture of the thumb

The os peroneum is a round or oval-shaped juxtaarticular sesamoid bone that lies within the confines of the peroneus longus tendon.

Persistent lateral foot pain

But metastasis has been reported in long bones, ribs, cranium mandible, scapula, bones of hand and foot and even the patella- a sesamoid bone (8).

Humeral metastasis in a case of squamous cell carcinoma--a case report

BROTHER OF IRIS, pulled up in the Racing Post Chase, will not race again this season after a veterinary examination revealed a chipped sesamoid bone. But trainer Mary Reveley is hopeful that her chaser will be back next term .