Sesamoid

Open Cup semifinal Wednesday, and at some point, apparently fractured the sesamoid bone in his right foot -- the same ailment that required surgery in preseason and prevented him from playing in a league match until July 31. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even after Ruffian broke the sesamoid bones in her foot 3/8s of a mile into the race, she ran as hard as she could for another fifty yards, breaking the hearts of everyone who saw the race. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Barbaro's cannon bone, sesamoid, and long pastern bone were fractured and he dislocated his ankle joint. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If you watch the replays you'll see that when she switched leads to her right front and landed awkwardly under fatigue, she fractured her cannon bone and additionally she fractured her sesamoid. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Uhlaender, who was introduced to skeleton by friend and bobsledder Sara Sprung, finished sixth overall in her rookie World Cup season last year, competing on two broken bones in her foot — a partially fractured talus in her left ankle that wasn't diagnosed for nearly two years and a broken sesamoid near her left toe. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Did these changes in dentition precede the development of the modified radial sesamoid bone or were the changes in dentition secondary. ❋ Unknown (2007)

John even knew the name of their nose bone, the nasal sesamoid, and he told me some of the many diseases pigs are heir to, scabies and lice and ticks and liver flukes, worms of the kidneys and worms of the lungs, tapeworms, rabies… ❋ David Lozell Martin (2007)

You can see the X-rays on the Web, of bones crisscrossed by dark fracture lines like weathered boulders, and even if you can't name the parts — pastern, cannon, sesamoid — it's obvious that something ghastly happened. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Since Thor and Zeus are no longer God (Zeus and other Greek gods were prone to metamorphic transformations), we have to find substitutes for the limited capabilities of the ancient gods (ignoring for the moment how complex it would be to redesign the sesamoid into a “thumb”), we need to invoke a new polytheism working under God which is limited, unlike God, and constrained in absurdly arbitrary ways. ❋ Unknown (2006)

While the red panda is considered a procyonid, the mainstream view now is that the giant panda is indeed a bear, although it diverged from the main ursid line long enough ago to exhibit some striking differences in addition to the enlarged radial sesamoid, such as chromosome number, skull anatomy, and other traits. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The radial sesamoid of S. batalleri shows similarities with that of the red panda, which supports a sister-group relationship and indicates independent evolution in both pandas. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The “false thumb” of pandas is a carpal bone, the radial sesamoid, which has been enlarged and functions as an opposable thumb. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There seems to be a simple color scheme, the mastoid bone seems reduced or absent, the sesamoid bone on each paw is missing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The lack of the sesamoid bone, an important adaptation in feeding, in the source of all pandaness suggests that this was bestowed on mortal pandas as a component of pandaness. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And he set his thumb and forefingers carefully to pulling a triangular thorn from the flesh beside the sesamoid bone. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1996)

On the inner side of the foot appears the abductor pollicis, D, arising from the inner side of the os calcis and internal annular ligament, and passing to be inserted with the flexor pollicis brevis, H, into the sesamoid bones and base of the first phalanx of the great toe. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

The lameness resulting from an inflammation of tendons resembles that resulting from strains and injuries to the fetlock joint, especially in the region of the sesamoid bones. ❋ R. A. Craig (N/A)