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To the governess contracture

To the governess contracture (A. Bonnet, French surgeon, 1802-1858; lat. contractura – reduction, narrowing, tightening)

Allocate Bonnet a contracture:

  1. Bonnet a contracture – the contracture appearing against the background of tubercular damage of joints proceeding in combination with quickly arising atrophy of muscles of an extremity;
  2. Bonnet a contracture – the flexion contracture of a brush noted after a fracture of a beam bone in the typical place which arose owing to simultaneous injury of a back interosseous nerve.
 
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