Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of dissolution and resorption of bony tissue.
- noun Surgical fracture of a bone, performed to correct a deformity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dissolution or resorption of osseous tissue; the destruction of bone.
- noun In surgery, the fracturing, especially the refracturing, of a bone to remedy deformity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The
surgical fracture of abone in order to correct adeformity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun treatment of a skeletal deformity by intentionally fracturing a bone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Above the age of six, the choice lies between osteoclasis and osteotomy.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The name given to the displacement in a fracture of a b. compression plating long bone include c. osteoclasis a. Angulation d. skin traction b.
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The name given to the displacement in a fracture of a b. compression plating long bone include c. osteoclasis a. Angulation d. skin traction b.
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The name given to the displacement in a fracture of a b. compression plating long bone include c. osteoclasis a. Angulation d. skin traction b.
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The name given to the displacement in a fracture of a b. compression plating long bone include c. osteoclasis a. Angulation d. skin traction b.
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