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Orthopedic. Condylar resorption, also called idiopathic condylar resorption, ICR, and condylysis, is a temporomandibular joint disorder in which one or both of the mandibular condyles are broken down in a bone resorption process. This disorder is nine times more likely to be present in females than males, and is more common among teenagers.
Condyloid processes are shown in red. The condyloid process or condylar process is the process on the human and other mammalian species' mandibles that ends in a condyle, the mandibular condyle. It is thicker than the coronoid process of the mandible and consists of two portions: the condyle and the constricted portion which supports it, the neck.
A condyloid joint is a modified ball and socket joint that allows primary movement within two perpendicular axes, passive or secondary movement may occur on a third axes. Some classifications make a distinction between condyloid and ellipsoid joints; [5] [6] these joints allow flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction movements (circumduction).
Rady Children's provides services to the San Diego, southern Riverside and Imperial counties. The hospital has 511 [1] beds and provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to patients aged 0–21. [2][3] It is affiliated with the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Rady Children's is the only hospital in San Diego area ...
Tri-City Medical Center (Tri-City or TCMC), founded in 1961, is a full-service, acute-care public hospital in Oceanside, California.Located 40 miles north of San Diego, Tri-City serves three major cities in the North County section of San Diego County: Oceanside, Vista, and Carlsbad.
The UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest (also referred to as the Hillcrest Medical Center or simply UC San Diego Medical Center) is one of three medical centers of UC San Diego Health and is a teaching hospital for the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The 390-bed hospital offers a range of primary care and specialized ...
Jacobs Medical Center. Jacobs Medical Center is a teaching hospital on the University of California, San Diego campus in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego. Along with the UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest, it serves as a flagship hospital of UC San Diego Health and the primary teaching hospital for the UC San Diego School of Medicine.
The Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) is the first phage therapy center in North America, founded in the UC San Diego School of Medicine in June 2018, with seed funding from UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. [3] The center was founded by Steffanie A. Strathdee and Robert "Chip" Schooley, both professors at ...