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varus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | deformity, malformation, misshapenness |
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Varus-valgus alignment and medial-lateral laxity were also measured.
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Varus does not actually appear in the novel, but his defeat by the Germans is an important event.
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The terms valgus and varus are used to refer to angulation of the distal part of a limb at a joint.
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Varus decided to quell this uprising immediately and take a detour through territory unfamiliar to the Romans.
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Varus was a patrician, born to an aristocratic but long-impoverished and unimportant family in the Quinctiliagens.
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Disproportionately large increases were observed in the hip internal rotation torque and in the knee flexion and knee varus torques.
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The hands and feet are small with overlapping toes, camptodactyly, clinodactyly, talipes equinovarus, and metatarsus varus.
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Frequency of varus and valgus thrust and factors associated with thrust presence in persons with or at higher risk for knee osteoarthritis.
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The odds of varus thrust were significantly less for African-Americans compared to Caucasians in both disease subgroups, after controlling for other factors.
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- A deformity in which part of a limb is turned inward to an abnormal degree
- Publius Quinctilius Varus (46 BC in Cremona, Roman Republic - AD 9 in Germania) was a Roman politician and general under emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
- In orthopedics, a varus deformity is a term for the inward angulation of the distal segment of a bone or joint. The opposite of varus is called valgus.
- Inward angulation of the foot, similar to pronation. One of the things fitters look for in cycling shoes and cleat fine tuning.
- Deformity of the foot resulting in the inward rotation of the plantar surface, or sole, of the foot so that it faces toward the median, or midline, of the body.
- Deviation toward the midline in the anatomical position. Thus, genu varum is a deformity at the knee where the lower leg is angled toward the midline (bow leg). By convention any deformity, or deviation, is described in terms of the movement of the distal part.
- Turned inward, usually referring to the ankle in Rett syndrome.
- A deformity marked by inward angulation of a segment of bone.
- Angled, bent, or twisted outward. In the knee: genu-varus is bowlegs. In the foot: talipes-varus is suppination with forefoot adduction. [top]
