Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or belonging to the radius and the ulna: as, the radioulnar articulation.

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Examples

  • Mostly they were sports stars, injured athletes, such as the Boston Red Sox pitcher with a torn anterior radio-ulnar ligament on his throwing hand.

    The Fourth Hand Irving, John, 1942- 2001

  • Its tendon runs through a compartment of the dorsal carpal ligament behind the distal radio-ulnar joint, then divides into two as it crosses the hand, and finally joins the expansion of the Extensor digitorum communis tendon on the dorsum of the first phalanx of the little finger.

    IV. Myology. 7e. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Forearm 1918

  • The free communication between the elbow and the superior radio-ulnar joint should be borne in mind.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • These include fractures of the lower ends of the bones of the forearm and separation of their epiphyses; sprains and dislocations of the inferior radio-ulnar, and of the radio-carpal articulations; and fractures and dislocations of the carpus.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • ULNA: _Shaft_; _Styloid process_; _Separation of epiphysis_ -- FRACTURE OF CARPAL BONES -- DISLOCATION: _Inferior radio-ulnar joint_; _Radio-carpal joint_; _Carpal bones_;

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • Dislocation may occur at the inferior radio-ulnar, the radio-carpal, mid-carpal, inter-carpal, or carpo-metacarpal joints, but the strong ligaments of these articulations, the comparatively free movement at the various joints, and the relative weakness of the lower end of the radius whereby it is so frequently fractured, render dislocation a rare form of injury.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • This injury is often complicated with fracture of the shaft or styloid process of the ulna, or with dislocation of the radio-ulnar joint, and it is not infrequently compound, the lower end of the shaft being driven through the skin on the palmar aspect immediately above the wrist.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • The fracture of the ulna alone, principally above the radio-ulnar arch, may be ascertained by the aggravated lameness, the excessive soreness on pressure, and perhaps a certain increase of motion, with a very slight crepitation if tested in the usual way.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • If the fracture occurs at any part of the forearm from the radio-ulnar arch down to the knee, it may involve either the radius alone or the radius and the cubitus, which are there intimately united.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • A fracture in this region may also involve the radius or the ulna, the latter being broken at times in its upper portion above the radio-ulnar arch at the olecranon.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

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