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Usually, Hausman said, a pitcher who has a "dead arm" has a slight injury to his labrum, the rim of cartilage that keeps the shoulder's ball-and-socket joint stable.
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So we broke up his massive dome into a ball-and-socket design that allows the inner helmet to swivel inside a larger collar.
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Researchers removed the entire humeral head -- the ball part of ball-and-socket shoulder joints -- from rabbits used as test subjects and then implanted the scaffolds to grow a biological replacement for the missing piece.
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The abnormal "extra bone" on the ball and or "socket" is also precisely trimmed to restore normal motion of the ball-and-socket joint in all positions required for athletic activity, so that recurrent labral tears and cartilage injury to the joint do not occur.
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Unlike the tight ball-and-socket linking the leg and the hip, the jaw and cranium are held together only by ligaments and muscles.
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He's playing with a giant plaster ball-and-socket joint mounted to a wall.
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His flight to Boise was in another hour, but he always got to these places early because the metal ball-and-socket joint meant rigamarole in security as often as not.
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It rests on a Starfleet shield base that attaches via a ball-and-socket tip that lets the ship pivot 360 degrees.
Star Trek Movie Action Figures, Role-Play Toys and Playsets Unveiled
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He's playing with a giant plaster ball-and-socket joint mounted to a wall.
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Recently, Lensbaby announced a new type of selective focus lens, called the Composer ($270), which has a ball-and-socket design that I think is an improvement over previous lenses, such as the Muse ($100 for plastic lens and $150 for glass lens) and the Control Freak ($270).
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