"Medius" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... widespread that the limb is unable to support the weight of the body, or certain groups of muscles only are paralysed and the child may be able to walk with the help of apparatus. Even if the ilio-psoas is paralysed, flexion is still possible by the anterior fibres of the gluteus medius, the anterior adductors, and when the leg is rotated out by the tensor fasciae and sartorius, the dislocation differs from the traumatic variety in that the head, although it leaves the socket, remains within the capsule. Dislocation tends to occur ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... by the panniculus? How is it with the eyebrows? You specify the axillae and the front region of the chest and lower part of scapulae: now, these are all hairy spots in man. On the other hand, the neck, and as I suppose the covering of the gluteus medius, are not hairy; so, as I said, I presume there is nothing in this notion. If there were, the rudiments of the panniculus ought perhaps to occur more plainly in man than ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin |
