KNEE Dictionary beginning with T

Abbreviation of 'tuberculosis'.

A scoring system to gauge how disabled one is from one's knee problem in terms of activity.

Tendinitis infers inflammation of a tendon, although often the condition is more a degeneration than an inflammation.

A tendon is the white fibrous end of a muscle, which connects the muscle to the bone.

Same as 'tendinitis'.

A tenodesis is a surgical procedure where a tendon is surgically attached to bone.

'Terminology' means the meaning of words.

The trade name for wide elastic bands used for rehabilitation exercises, and development of strength.

This is a controversial technique where a radiofrequency 'wand' is stroked over the fibres of a ligament to cause shrinkage, and consequent tightening of any laxity.

The femur - the long bone going from the hip to the knee.

An inflammation of the tissues caused by a clot in the vein.

The tibia is the shin bone.

The tibial plateau is the flattened upper surface of the tibial bone (shinbone), where it makes contact with the rounded ends (condyles) of the femur (thighbone).

A tibial plateau fracture is a bone break through the flat joint surface of the tibia bone, at the region where it articulates with the rounded end of the femur bone.

'Torsion' means 'twisting'. In tibial torsion it is the tibia bone that is abnormally twisted.

The tibial tuberosity is the bony lump on the shin below the kneecap (patella).

Tibial tuberosity transfer is a surgical procedure involving cutting the bony mump below the kneecap (the tibial tuberosity) and either moving it or re-angling it.

A term used in cruciate ligament repair to refer to the drill hole on the tibia through which the replacement ligament is threaded.

The tibiofemoral joint is the junction of the tibia bone (shinbone) with the femur bone (thighbone).

The term 'tide mark' is used when talking about articular cartilage (hyaline cartilage) - the white gristle that you find at the end of a bone. If the cartilage is stained, and cut into thin slices, and then examined under the microscope, one can see a calcified area of cartilage on the deeper aspect, anchoring the cartilage to the bone. This region looks different from the rest of the cartilage and the line demarcating it is called the tide mark.

A knee rehabilitation exercise.

A tissue bank is a place where body parts are stored for later use in transplantation.

Cells, biodegradeable scaffolds and engineering systems which repair or replace body parts.

Abbreviation of 'total knee arthroplasty'.

Abbreviation of 'total knee replacement'.

Same as 'total knee replacement'.

Replacement of the femoral and tibial surfaces of the kee joint with metal and plastic, and generally also part of the patella.

The tourniquet referred to in knee surgery is usually an inflatable wrapping which goes around the upper thigh during surgery.

Transfix is a system of fixation of meniscal tears (tears of the knee cartilages).

A transplant is the removal of a body part from is origin and re-growing it somewhere else in the same person or in another person.

A useful item of equipment for knee rehabilitation.

Varus alignment of tibia and femur associated with a deficiency of all of the posterolateral structures, and where the deformity increases on standing, and a varus recurvatum position is present.

Same as 'trochlear groove'.

The adjective of 'trochlea', eg trochlear groove, trochlear dysplasia.

A trochlear groove which has formed abnormally, generally with the sides being too flat or too steep.

The trochlear groove is the concave surface where the patella (kneecap) makes contact with the femur (thighbone). Also called the 'trochlea'.

A trochleoplasty is a surgical procedure to re-shape the walls of the trochlear groove.

A rehabilitation exercise.

Abbreviation of 'tibial tuberosity transfer'.

Tuberculosis is an infection caused by the tuberculosis bacterium. It is commonly called TB.