Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
interosseus .
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- noun Plural form of
interosseus .
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Examples
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He discovered the function of the motor nerves by cutting them experimentally, and so producing paralysis of the muscles; the platysma, interossei, and popliteus muscles were first described by him.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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No wasting of the interossei, skin normal except for a large trophic blister on the dorsum of the hand.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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If this vessel be tied in any part of its course, the collateral circulation will depend principally upon the free communications between it and the ulnar, through the medium of the superficial and deep palmar arches and those of the branches derived from both vessels, and from the two interossei distributed to the fingers and back of the hand.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The Interossei plantares (Plantar interossei) (Fig. 447), three in number, lie beneath rather than between the metatarsal bones, and each is connected with but one metatarsal bone.
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Deep slips between this muscle and the Dorsal interossei occur.
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The Interossei dorsales (Dorsal interossei) are four in number, and occupy the intervals between the metacarpal bones.
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The Interossei dorsales (Dorsal interossei) (Fig. 446), four in number, are situated between the metatarsal bones.
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STROKING WITH THE THUMB (see Fig. 3) is used between two muscles, or between a muscle and a tendon; also frequently to reach the interossei in the hands and the feet.
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In an athetoid hand, says Starr, the interossei and lumbricales, which flex the metacarpo-phalangeal and extend the phalangeal joints, are affected; rarely are the long extensors and the long flexors affected.
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In an athetoid hand, says Starr, the interossei and lumbricales, which flex the metacarpo-phalangeal and extend the phalangeal joints, are affected; rarely are the long extensors and the long flexors affected.
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