mediomeniscotibial

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Etymology

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From medio- +‎ meniscotibial.

Adjective

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mediomeniscotibial (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy, very rare) Medial and meniscotibial.
    • 2020 February 19, P. Pousinis, “Lipidomic identification of plasma lipids associated with pain behaviour and pathology in a mouse model of osteoarthritis”, in Metabolomics:
      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 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:
      In this model transection of the mediomeniscotibial ligament (MMTL) results in a slowly progressing joint pathology and pain phenotype