mediomeniscotibial en · ADJ
Etymology
From medio- + meniscotibial.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, rare) Medial and meniscotibial.
An incision was made over the medial meniscus; a blunt dissection was then used to open the knee joint capsule and the mediomeniscotibial ligament (MMTL) was transected to destabilise the medial meniscus (Glasson et al. 2007).
2020 February 19, P. Pousinis, “Lipidomic identification of plasma lipids associated with pain behaviour and pathology in a mouse model of osteoarthritis”, in Metabolomics:In this model transection of the mediomeniscotibial ligament (MMTL) results in a slowly progressing joint pathology and pain phenotype
2020 September 29, Peter R. W. Gowler, “Refining surgical models of osteoarthritis in mice and rats alters pain phenotype but not joint pathology”, in PLOS One: