Sentence examples for contractures from inspiring English sources

Thus, in man cleft lip, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, and polydactyly may be found in the same individual; acrocephalosyndactyly (an egg- or dome-shaped skull and partial or complete fusion of digits in both hands and feet) often occurs with harelip, contractures, spina bifida, and mental abnormalities.

Patients with hysterical symptoms complained of acute shortness of breath, paralyses, and contractures of limbs for which no physical cause could be found.

Motor symptoms vary from complete paralysis to tremors, tics, contractures, or convulsions.

The patient is encouraged to move about to reduce scar formation and subsequent disabling contractures (permanent contractions of scar, muscles, and tendons) over the joints.

Such scars often require additional plastic surgery sometimes years after the initial skin grafting to release contractures over joints and to achieve acceptable cosmetic results.

You have to stretch and exercise patients' flaccid limbs daily to avoid contractures, give subcutaneous injections of blood thinners at least twice a day, turn patients in bed every few hours, bathe them and change their sheets without knocking out a tube or a line, brush their teeth twice a day to avoid pneumonia from bacterial buildup in their mouths.

You almost certainly have a Dupuytren's contracture, in which the tendon to the finger is caught up in the "sheath" - that is, the tunnel in which it runs from wrist to finger.

He suffers from Dupuytren's contracture, a condition that causes some of his fingers to bend in towards the palm, which can make shaking hands with fans difficult.

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.

Stenosis (contracture) of the external opening (meatus) is the most common, but congenital stricture of the urethra occasionally occurs at other points.

Inflammation of the heart muscle and supporting structures may lead to a permanent scarring and contracture of the heart valves and a marked decrease in life expectancy.