Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated or occurring within a joint.
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Examples
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It reads in part, There has been complete interval healing of the mildly comminuted fracture deformity of the proximal ulna as well as the obliquely oriented intra-articular fracture of the radial head.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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It reads in part, There has been complete interval healing of the mildly comminuted fracture deformity of the proximal ulna as well as the obliquely oriented intra-articular fracture of the radial head.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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Treatment of arthritic joints by intra-articular corticosteroid injection is available.
Rheumatology 2010
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In joints other than the pedal and pastern, there is sudden and extensive swelling, which at first is intra-articular, succeeded by extra-articular tumefaction, and accompanied by violent lameness.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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_ -- The immediate result of any perforation of a joint was the development of intra-articular effusion.
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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Tuberculous foci in the bones are met with chiefly in the lower end of the diaphysis of the humerus; in children, the epiphyses are so small that the ossifying junction is intra-articular.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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It is not uncommon for portions of bone to be torn off at the site of attachment of strong ligamentous bands or tendons, constituting a "sprain fracture"; or for intra-articular cartilages to be torn and displaced, as in the knee.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The synovial layer invests intra-articular ligaments, and is projected into the interior of the joint in the form of loose folds wherever the articulating surfaces are not in immediate contact.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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_ -- The intra-articular cartilage is liable to be displaced by excessive traction exerted on it by the external pterygoid muscle during some sudden movement of the joint, particularly in closing the mouth.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Furthermore, a fracture may be intra-articular or extra-articular, as it extends into a joint or otherwise, and, once more, intra-periosteal when the periosteum remains intact.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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