Humerus

with dorsal mass on her cervico-thoracal region. She was reffered to Genetic department for the evaluation of her anomalies. On her back she had a accessory partial and hypoplastic upper arms (3 fingers – one came-off, hypoplastic ulna, radius, humerus, 2 scapulas) completely covered with skin, that measured approximately 10 cm in diameter, soft in consistency, that showed no movement, sensitive to touch, with spectrum of associated anomalies (Fig. 1). MRI showed meningomielocela, vertebral and…

Introduction: A couple of football players were practicing their game at a field near a camping area known as the Crystal Lake, everything was going okay until one quarterback accidentally throw the ball further than usual. after argueing of who is going to find the ball, the quarterback himself decided to look for it around the camping area. After looking around endlessly, the quarterback’s eyes caught the ball in the middle of the lake. Due to the cold weather the player couldn’t get far at…

Image result for aagenaes syndrome This disease is characterized by growth defects. Some defects are brachycephalic, deformities of the humerus, radius and ulna, short and broad hands, hyponastic maxilla, and mental retardation. This is a cystic disease. It is not cirrhosis because it is not active with inflammatory cells. The disorder is probably proliferation and dilation of portal bile…

inflammation (Kane, 2011). All these affect each other and make the situation more complex. While treating one it is possible to make a detrimental effect on the other one. I recently have a female patient who is 82 years old. She fell down and broke right humerus and left femur and was admitted to the medical surgical floor for orthopedics surgery. She is diabetic and has coronary artery disease. She had coronary artery bypass before. She also has stage 2 kidney failure. She had an…

Introduction. Lateral epicondylitis is also known as ‘Tennis Elbow’ that is commonly occurring on dominant arm. This disease, lateral epicondylitis is the term that describes the inflammation or the irritation to the tendon of lateral epicondyle of the humerus. It is normally occurred on the tendons that connect the extensor muscle of the wrist and fingers. Often, the inflammations happen to be on the attachment site of the tendon on lateral epicondyle. Also it is the common site of injuries,…

blood from a ruptured blood vessel. A fracture is any loss of continuity of bone. Proximal is situated close to or nearest the point or attachment or origin to the trunk of the body. Diaphysis is the shaft or central part of a long bone. 2. The humerus is a long bone located in the upper arm. It is classified as a long bone because the bone is longer than it is wide. The occipital bone is located on the posterior inferior part of the skull. This bone is classified as a flat bone due to broad,…

Forensic Anthropologist to be able to recognise these differences and use this knowledge to determine whether a specimen is human or not. POST-CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY Non-human mammals are typically quadrupedal in nature. In quadrupeds, it is seen that the humerus, radius and ulna are more robust and this is because they have been designed to withstand the full weight of an animal’s body. Humans, however, are bipeds and the bones of their arms are designed for rotation rather than support. Because…

it's been nearly three months now, three months of constant warfare. The crack of gunfire ringing in my ears. It is hard to imagine a time before the Sounds of men dying haunted my very existence. Prior to enlistment I had heard the stories of men triumphant in battle, proud and strong, fighting for their queen and country. No one mentioned the harsh reality of watching grown men come apart at the seams. No one mentioned sleeping, eating, Shitting next to the decaying body of a fallen comrade.…

Evaluate how the name of a muscle can distinguish its location, action, shape, and function. Select five different muscles to make this distinction. Depending on the anatomical position of the body part, certain prefixes, and suffixes are utilized in order to find its location verbally. These prefixes and suffixes can be described by the: size of the muscle, location of the muscles, direction of the muscle fibers, amount of origins, shape of a muscle, and location of a muscle origin/insertion.…

It was a very sunny day when I interviewed my old pediatrician. He used to work in the Emergency department when he was younger before switching over to pediatrics. I approached him with questions regarding dilemmas in pediatrics when he told me about an incidence in the emergency department which was a difficult case for him during his resident year. The case history A 21 month old boy presented to his local emergency department having reportedly fallen down the stairs. The mother said she…