Sentence examples for socket acetabulum from inspiring English sources

At the centre of each plate was a deep cup the hip socket (acetabulum).

The abnormality of the hip joint in the affected dog develops after birth, leading to weakening of the supportive tissue surrounding the hip joint and separation of the femoral head from the socket (acetabulum) of the pelvis and later to degenerative joint disease.

The pelvic socket (acetabulum) is substituted with a rigid or soft spherical shell called the acetabular cup (Farag 2013).

aThis version involves removing and replacing the head of the thighbone (the femoral head) and the damaged socket (acetabulum) with metal.

When you move your legs, this ball rotates into the socket (acetabulum).

Both resurfacing and total hip replacements involve implanting a metal cup in a pelvic socket called the acetabulum.

FAI occurs as a result of a size and shape mismatch between the femoral head (ball) and the acetabulum (socket).

For definition purposes, in this analysis we are defining a primary THA as first-time replacement of the femoral head of the femoral bone and the acetabulum (socket) of the pelvic bone.

The ilium is the most dorsal element and the only one extending forward of the socket of the leg (acetabulum).

Rather than replacing the joint completely, the procedure spares much bone both in the acetabulum (the socket) and in the femoral head (the ball) of the joint, and allows the implantation of metal-on-metal components.

Some basic dinosaurian modifications to the ancestral archosaurian skeleton: Reduced fourth and fifth digits on the manus (hand); pes (foot) reduced to three main toes; three or more vertebrae composing the sacrum (region of the vertebral column which attaches to the pelvis); and an open acetabulum (hip socket; see below).