These muscles include the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus which abduct the thigh, prevent swaying of hips, stabilize pelvic region while keeping hips level, and shift an individual s weight in order to adjust body placement to increase one's overall body stability.
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The Roman Emperor Claudius proposed introducing a new letter into the Latin alphabet to transcribe the so-called " sonus medius " ( a short vowel before labial consonants ), but in inscriptions, the new letter was sometimes used for Greek upsilon instead.
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The "'Trendelenburg gait "'pattern ( or "'gluteus medius lurch "') is an abnormal gait ( as with walking ) caused by weakness of the abductor muscles of the lower limb, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus.
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The "'Trendelenburg gait "'pattern ( or "'gluteus medius lurch "') is an abnormal gait ( as with walking ) caused by weakness of the abductor muscles of the lower limb, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus.
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Other, nocturnal lemurs of the Anjajavy Forest include three species of mouse lemur ( " Microcebus " spp . ), one species of sportive lemur ( " Lepilemur " sp . ) and the fat-tailed dwarf lemur ( Cheirogaleus medius ).
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The closest relatives of " B . gabbii " are the two lowland olingo species of Panama and northwestern South America, " B . alleni " and " B . medius ", from which it diverged about 1.8 million years ago.
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The " lateral surface ", quadrilateral in form, is broad, rough, convex, and marked by a diagonal impression, which extends from the postero-superior to the antero-inferior angle, and serves for the insertion of the tendon of the gluteus medius.
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From its attachment to the iliac crest it passes down over the gluteus medius to the upper border of the gluteus maximus, where it splits into two layers, one passing superficial to and the other beneath this muscle; at the lower border of the muscle the two layers reunite.
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His fate thereafter is unknown, but he is mentioned again in an inscription in Gonnoi in Thessaly, probably dating to the period when Demetrius was king of Macedonia, implying that Medius continued to serve Demetrius even after the defeat and death of Antigonus at the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC.
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Injury to the superior gluteal nerve results in a characteristic motor loss, resulting in a disabling gluteus medius limp, to compensate for weakened abduction of the thigh by the gluteus medius and minimus, and / or a gluteal gait, a compensatory list of the body to the weakened gluteal side.