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Definition of Tuberosity
1. Noun. A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament.
Specialized synonyms: Deltoid Eminence, Deltoid Tuberosity
Generic synonyms: Appendage, Outgrowth, Process
Derivative terms: Tubercular, Tuberous
Definition of Tuberosity
1. n. The state of being tuberous.
Definition of Tuberosity
1. Noun. The condition of being tuberous ¹
2. Noun. (countable medicine) A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tuberosity
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Medical Definition of Tuberosity
1. A large tubercle or rounded elevation, especially from the surface of a bone. Synonym: tuberositas. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuberosity
Literary usage of Tuberosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treatment of Fractures: With Notes Upon a Few Common Dislocations by Charles Locke Scudder (1915)
"The portion of the greater tuberosity detached may be only a thin sliver of bone
... Following fracture of the greater tuberosity there will be considerable ..."
2. Dislocations and Joint-fractures by Frederic Jay Cotton (1910)
"GREATER tuberosity Where either tuberosity alone is broken, without luxation, we
are apt to find muscle action as the cause; the result is an nru.l- sion of ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1886)
"Dislocation of the Humerus with Fracture of Hie Great tuberosity. The PRESIDENT
read a communication on a case of dislocation of the humerus with fracture ..."
4. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1881)
"53, \f ) termed the greater (radial* or preaxial) tuberosity, ... The other
smaller prominence is called the lesser (ulnar, or post-axial), tuberosity ..."
5. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1884)
"In it the tendon of the subscapular muscle is commonly torn near its insertion
into the lesser tuberosity of the humérus, and the capsular ligament is ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... develop a large tuberosity. The intermedium has a flattened proximal surface,
which joins the ulnar part of the concave distal articular surface of the ..."
7. The Mechanism of Dislocations and Fracture of the Hip: II. Litholapaxy Or by Henry Jacob Bigelow (1900)
"DISLOCATIONS NEAR THE tuberosity OR PERINEUM.1 When the thigh is thus ... 1 For
a case of dislocation near the tuberosity, see Cooper's " Treatise," Case ..."
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