Sentence examples for means of fixation from inspiring English sources

In their centre is a canal (haversian canal) containing one or more small blood vessels, and at their outer margins is a boundary layer known as a "cement line," which serves both as a means of fixation for new bone deposited on an old surface and as a diffusion barrier.

The 'editing machinery' was probably a means of fixation of selectively constrained pyrimidines under these reduced selection periods.

It provides an alternative to more conventional means of fixation such as pedicle screws or anterior plates.

This device is an alternative to dynamic interspinous spacers for the treatment of spinal stenosis and to conventional means of fixation to achieve fusion.

I have employed various methods at different times, endeavoring to devise means of fixation of the fragments in accurate apposition which shall be at the same time effectual and easy of application.

While a mechanism allowing for distal expansion in pedicle screws has shown to provide promising results as a means of fixation within osteoporotic bone, there still exists concern as to whether trabecular bone of compromised quality is strong enough to take full advantage of the increased diameter generated [ 45].

These techniques require increased operative time for the use of a separate mean of fixation.

The patients, 7 males and 47 females, were divided into 2 groups: 28 patients stabilized by means of rigid fixation and 26 patients fixated with interosseous wires.

Clinical studies will be performed to prove this hypothesis and future developments should be targeted onto fixation of the bony graft in situ by means of novel fixation devices.

Surgical instrumentation used for posterior craniocervical instability has evolved from simple wiring techniques to sophisticated implant systems that incorporate multiple means of rigid fixation for the cervical spine.

Tissue engineered menisci hold great promise as a treatment alternative however lack a means of integrated fixation to the underlying bone needed in order for a tissue engineered meniscal replacement to be successful.