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Definition of Condyles
1. condyle [n] - See also: condyle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Condyles
Literary usage of Condyles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical treatise on fractures and dislocations by Frank Hastings Hamilton (1866)
"FRACTURE AT THE BASE OF THE condyles, COMPLICATED WITH FRACTURE BETWEEN THE ...
occasioned by a separation of the condyles ; displacement upwards and ..."
2. The Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1802)
"The condyles of the thigh-bone are the broad articulating ... by which that bone
is joined with the tibia; while the condyles of the moulder-bone are merely ..."
3. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"The condyles of the thigh-bone are the broad articulating surfaces by which that
bone is joined with the tibia ; while the condyles of the shoulder-bone are ..."
4. A Treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints by Astley Cooper, Bransby Blake Cooper (1851)
"SECTION I.—FRACTURES OF THE OS HUMERI ABOVE THE condyles. THE condyles of the os
humeri are sometimes obliquely broken off just above the joint, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"The anterior prolongation of the lateral condyles occurs only in the more ...
The median condyle and its separation from the lateral condyles is well shown ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"the junction of the condyles with the femur. They are rather circumflex in their
course, ... But in another amputation through the femoral condyles, ..."
7. The Practice of surgery by Thomas Bryant (1873)
"Fracture of the condyles into the joint is a grave a« apt to be followed by some
stiff it may be oblique in any dire« the inner condyle being ..."
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