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Definition of Osteotomes
1. osteotome [n] - See also: osteotome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osteotomes
Literary usage of Osteotomes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Encyclopædic Index of Medicine and Surgery by Edward John Bermingham (1882)
"Saws, osteotomes and chisels. Saws are very narrow and either blades or chains.
osteotomes resemble chisels, but they are bevelled ..."
2. Manual of operative surgery by John Fairbairn Binnie (1921)
"C) osteotomes, or wedge-shaped chisels, are the only chisels suitable for ing a
clean cut ... Various surgeons have modified ewen's osteotomes, but only in ..."
3. An Index of Surgery: Being a Concise Classification of the Main Facts and by Charles Robert Bell Keetley (1885)
"Saws, osteotomes, and chisels. Saws are very narrow, and either blades or chains.
osteotomes resemble chisels, but they are bevelled on both surfaces, ..."
4. Orthopaedic Surgery for Students and General Practitioners: Preliminary by Robert Tunstall Taylor (1907)
"A camera and skin pencil are also useful for the same purpose- The osteotomes
which have been found most useful by the author are known as the MacEwen ..."
5. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1909)
"osteotomes of different thickness may be used, the thinner being used last as the
... These osteotomes are marked with the measuring grooves on the blade to ..."
6. Manual of Operative Surgery by Joseph Decatur Bryant (1886)
"It can be tested upon the thigh-bone of the ox, when, if it neither turn nor
chip, it is calculated to withstand the test of human bone. osteotomes vary in ..."
7. Verhandlungen des X. Internationalen medicinischen congresses: Berlin, 4.-9 by László Farkas, Congress Internationale Medicinische (1891)
"This can easily be avoided by the use of several osteotomes of graduated
thicknesses, ') Many osteotomes are formed by the instrumentmaker carelessly, ..."
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