desmography

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

desmo- +‎ -graphy

Noun[edit]

desmography

  1. The description of ligaments; a treatise describing ligaments
    • 1893, Catalogue of the Brazilian Section at the World's Columbian Exposition, page 117:
      103. Antonio Augusto Ferreira Silva, M. D. Studies of sanitary desmography. Rio de Janeiro
    • 2012, W Song, W Sun, Z Chen, L Jian, “The mechanical discussion of effect of muscle meridian on the treatment of arthralgia syndrome”, in 2012 IEEE International Conference:
      The muscle meridian is a summarization of the physiology and pathology of demic desmography, mycology and affiliated tissues on a platform of twelve circulation operating line based on the ancient anatomy understandings...
    • 2017, Etienne Cavaignac, David Ancelin, Philippe Chiron, Jean-Louis Tricoire, Karine Wytrykowski, Marie Faruch, Elodie Chantalat, “Historical perspective on the “discovery” of the anterolateral ligament of the knee”, in Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, volume 25, number 4:
      In his book on desmography in 1752, Weitbrecht referred to “fibrous bunches that reinforce the capsule and bands that supplement the fixation of the semicircular cartilages (meniscus)”, but he did not provide further details as his work was purely descriptive.

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