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DISTAL EDGE [6 records]

Record 1 2008-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

Surgical chisel designed to cut and shape bone during surgical procedures.

OBS

[The bone chisels] typically consist of a sturdy, handheld, manual flat-blade instrument with a cutting edge that is beveled on one side at the distal end and a handle. Dedicated surgical chisels are available in a variety of shapes and sizes according to the procedure to be performed; they are used in orthopedic and plastic surgery, neurosurgery, and other surgical procedures.

OBS

Bone chisels are tools for carving small pieces out of the bones to reach the inner soft part. [They] are used to score, cut, scrape, clean and sculpt bone. ... The bone sculpting chisels are called osteotomes: they are used to cut a window in the bone cortex to allow harvesting of pure soft bone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
CONT

Lorsque l'os est dur et cassant il faut s'aider de la scie pour les ailerons et d'un ciseau à os pour la quille.

OBS

Le terme anglais "chisel" désigne tant un burin qu'un ciseau. Les deux instruments peuvent être utilisés seuls ou percutés à l'aide d'un marteau. Il existe cependant en français une nuance entre le burin et le ciseau. Le terme « burin » est employé en chirurgie pour désigner un instrument à extrémité biseautée tranchante destinée à entailler le périoste ou l'os. Quant au terme «ciseau», il désigne un instrument plat, également taillé en biseau, utilisé en chirurgie osseuse pour prélever, tailler ou trancher un greffon ou un fragment osseux.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

A septum may have a number of irregular, upwardly directed, slender or cylindrical "axial" lobes springing from its axial edge... Its distal(calicular) edge may show teeth representing the growing tips of trabeculae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[...] l'intersection du calice [d'un polypier] avec la muraille est le «bord calicinal» [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • Surgical Instruments
CONT

The[ single-portal endoscopic technique] involved insertion of a split cannula into the previously dilated carpal tunnel, followed by section of the transverse carpal ligament from its proximal to its distal edge under visual guidance via a standard arthroscope.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
CONT

La[technique endoscopique à une voie]comprend la mise en place d'une canule fendue dans le canal carpien après dilatation, et la section du ligament annulaire de proximal en distal sous contrôle d'un arthroscope standard.

Spanish

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Record 4 1996-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
DEF

A pedicle flap whose width is increased by transforming the edge of the flap distal to the defect into a curved line; the flap is then rotated and a counterincision is made at the base of the curved line; which increases the mobility of the flap.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
DEF

Variété de lambeau généralement destiné à combler une perte de substance grossièrement triangulaire, dessiné suivant une courbe menée à partir de cette perte de substance; l'ensemble de la berge inscrite subissant, après décollement sous-cutané, un mouvement de rotation.

Spanish

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Record 5 1977-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[An odontophore is a] single axillary [ossicle] on [the] distal edge of [a] pair of mouth-angle plates in asteroids.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Chez les Stelléroides,] les inféromarginales rejoignent proximalement les cinq plaques axillaires ou "odontophores" (...) de la face orale; (...)

Spanish

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Record 6 1977-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A protopodite is the] proximal portion of [a crustacean] limb, consisting of [the] precoxa, coxa, and basis, fused together in some forms; its distal edge generally(...) [bears the] endopodite and exopodite;(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Chez beaucoup d'Arthropodes (...) l'appendice typique (...) se compose de deux branches semblables à l'origine (...) insérées (...) sur une base qui forme le "protopodite" (ou "sympodite") (...)

Spanish

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