A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . sionally hollowed out into a kind of socket for the receptionof the rounded conical end of the lower fragment; or the reverse obtains, thehead being rounded off, and the lower fragment scooped out. In either event,the two extremities, continually moving upon each other, in time acquire asmooth, polished, eburnized character, the better qualifying them for the perform-ance of their various functions. The changes now described are sometimes closely imitated by those producedin the head and neck of the femur by a fall or
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . sionally hollowed out into a kind of socket for the receptionof the rounded conical end of the lower fragment; or the reverse obtains, thehead being rounded off, and the lower fragment scooped out. In either event,the two extremities, continually moving upon each other, in time acquire asmooth, polished, eburnized character, the better qualifying them for the perform-ance of their various functions. The changes now described are sometimes closely imitated by those producedin the head and neck of the femur by a fall or blow on the hip, leading to inter-stitial absorption of the osseous tissue, and shortening of the limb, with destruc-tion of the articular cartilage and eburnization of the resulting stump, very muchas in arthritic rheumatism. There is reason to believe that cases of this kind arenot infrequently mistaken, both during life and after death, for fractures of theneck of this bone. The appearances here alluded to are well illustrated in and 469. Fig. 4(i8. Fig. Senile atrophy of the neck of the femur.
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