scaphoid

Modifies a noun

• fracture: Scaphoid fractures may not be evident on the initial radiograph, get scaphoid views.
• pole: A second guide-wire is placed next to the first wire and at the base of the proximal scaphoid pole.
• bone: News Snippets Philippa Gammell has recently been diagnosed with a broken right wrist scaphoid bone, the original injury having occurred in April 2002.
• injury: This came at a cost tho, as we lost our battling Frenchman Sebastien Tresarrieu to a scaphoid injury.
• cortex: With use of imaging, the trailing end of the wire is located and is withdrawn until its end reaches the distal scaphoid cortex.
• length: The difference between the trailing ends of both wires shown in the photograph on the left is the scaphoid length.