Sentence examples for a contracture from inspiring English sources

The only anomaly of the foreskin is congenital phimosis, characterized by a contracture of the foreskin, or prepuce, which prevents its retraction over the glans (the conical structure that forms the head of the penis); the preputial opening may impede the flow of urine.

He had a contracture of his neck towards the left side as well as a dilated left pupil and a loss of motor function of his left leg.

Ten weeks after the injury the patient presented at our department with a contracture of the elbow in 20° of flexion.

This advantage may not be clinically evident by tests done for over activity [13] because the hamstrings and gastrocnemius are essentially normal in such cases, neither having a contracture nor fibrosis of their substance.

Due to the lack of any serious complications, this technique is being utilized as the first line of treatment for any contracture, but especially for contracted joints, such as volar plate release or in children in whom caring for a contracture is extremely difficult by conventional means.

A contracture < 2 mN at caffeine 2 mM and halothane 0.44 mM was classified MHN.

If the crossbridges are bound longer rather than cycling to produce this unrelaxed force, relatively little energy would be required between stimulus trains to retain a contracture-like state.

Usuba M, Miyanaga Y, Miyakawa S, Maeshima T, Shirasaki Y. Effect of heat in increasing the range of knee motion after the development of a joint contracture: an experiment with an animal model.

A more than one-third incidence of developing a joint contracture in a large joint was documented for ICU patients with a hospital stay longer than 2 weeks [ 32].

[2] as a flexion contracture >15° and a maximum flexion <75°, by Yercan et al.

One study defined stiffness as a knee having a flexion contracture of ≥15 degrees and/or < 75 degrees of flexion (Kim et al. 2004).