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Definition of Osteoclasis
1. Noun. Treatment of a skeletal deformity by intentionally fracturing a bone.
Definition of Osteoclasis
1. n. The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.
Definition of Osteoclasis
1. Noun. (medicine) The surgical fracture of a bone in order to correct a deformity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Osteoclasis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Osteoclasis
Literary usage of Osteoclasis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1876)
"Manual and mechanical osteoclasis have been employed up to the present time in
... Of the various methods of producing osteoclasis, the author deduces that, ..."
2. Transactions by American Orthopaedic Association (1903)
"Briefly stated, two operations are done, incomplete osteotomy and osteoclasis.
At the first operation the bone is divided with a chisel not completely, ..."
3. Manual of operative surgery by John Fairbairn Binnie (1921)
"osteoclasis.—Theoretically, the danger of epiphyseal separation causing ...
osteoclasis is suitable only in the very young where the bones are still soft. ..."
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