 | Joseph Amesbury - 1831 - 418 pages
...trochanter six lines. 5. An unequal line surrounded the neck, denoting the direction of the fracture. 6. At the bottom of the head of the femur, and at the external and posterior part, considerable bony deposite had taken place. A section of the bone was made in a line drawn from the centre of the head... | |
 | Robert William Smith - 1850 - 498 pages
...irregular line surrounding the neck, denoting the direction of the fracture, and considerable bony deposit at the bottom of the head of the femur, and at the external and posterior part. A section of the head of the femur was made in a line drawn from its centre to the bottom of the great... | |
 | John George Johnson - 1857 - 40 pages
...irregular line surrounding the neck, denoting the direction of the fracture, and considerable bony deposit at the bottom of the head of the femur, and at the external and posterior part. A section of the head of the femur was made, in a line drawn from its center to the bottom of the great... | |
 | Frederick Oldfield Ward - 1876 - 402 pages
...participates. During this action there is an instant when the direction of the limb (represented by a line drawn from the centre of the head of the femur to the centre of the surface which, for the time being, touches the ground) is exactly vertical ; — that... | |
 | Alexis Thomson - 1913 - 956 pages
...shortening by oblique osteotomy above and below the knee. GENU VALGUM AND GENU VARUM In the normal limb, a line drawn from the centre of the head of the femur to a point midway between the malleoli passes through the centre of the kneejoint. If the line passes... | |
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A section of the bone was made in a line drawn from the centre of the head of the femur to the bottom of the great trochanter, so as perfectly to expose the callus. The line of bone indicated by the callus was smooth and polished as ivory. 