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Publius Quinctilius Varus (Cremona, 46 BC – near Kalkriese, AD 9) was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus.Varus is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by a coalition of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the chieftain of the Cherusci tribe in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where he committed suicide to avoid capture and ...
A varus deformity is an excessive inward angulation (medial angulation, that is, towards the body's midline) of the distal segment of a bone or joint. The opposite of varus is called valgus . The terms varus and valgus always refer to the direction that the distal segment of the joint points.
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, also called the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Latin: Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.
Varus may refer to: Var River or Varus, a river in France; Stura di Lanzo or Varus, a river in Italy; Varus deformity, a medical term for the inward angulation of the distal segment of a bone or joint Coxa vara, affecting the hip; Genu varum, affecting the knee; Hallux varus, affecting the big toe; Cubitus varus, affecting the elbow
Saint Varus (Greek: Οὔαρος; died c. 304) was an early Christian saint, soldier and martyr. Biography. ...
By the year 5 BC Germania was a Roman province and Publius Quinctilius Varus was assigned as governor. The legion could have been stationed in Dangstetten. It is possible the reason the legion was stationed here was to police the nearby Roman Road. [3] [4] In September 9 AD, Arminius, leader of the Cherusci and a Roman ally, set a trap. He had ...
Cubitus varus is a varus deformity in which the extended forearm is deviated towards midline of the body. Cubitus varus is often referred to as "Gunstock deformity", due to the crooked nature of the healing. [1] [2] The "opposite" condition is cubitus valgus.
Genu varum (also called bow-leggedness, bandiness, bandy-leg, and tibia vara) is a varus deformity marked by (outward) bowing at the knee, which means that the lower leg is angled inward in relation to the thigh's axis, giving the limb overall the appearance of an archer's bow.