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Definition of Sequestrum

1. n. A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.

Definition of Sequestrum

1. Noun. A fragment of bone or other dead tissue that has separated during necrosis ¹

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Definition of Sequestrum

1. [n -TRA or -TRUMS]

Medical Definition of Sequestrum

1. A piece of dead bone that has become separated during the process of necrosis from the sound bone. Sequelae of osteomyelitis, sequestrum, necrotic bone, often denser than surroundings, may be resorbed, discharged through a sinus tract, or persist as a focus of continued infection, involucrum, bone formed beneath elevated periosteum, surrounds sequestrum (08 Aug 2003)

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Literary usage of Sequestrum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"The sequestrum a is detached and bathed in pus, ... 81, after removal of the sequestrum. sis is lost, ... Will the cavity in which the sequestrum ..."

2. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty Lectures. A Text-book by Theodor Billroth (1871)
"A regular cast has been formed around the sequestrum, just like we should ... The sequestrum a is detached and bathed in pus, which is secreted from the ..."

3. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty Lectures. A Text-book by Theodor Billroth (1871)
"A regular cast has been formed around the sequestrum, just like we should make of plaster of Paris if we wish to mould an object ; this cast, however, ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"Complicated fistula tract with one sequestrum left behind after first operation. ... A sequestrum can be readily made out, and often more than one, ..."

5. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1920)
"This distinction is of practical importance, for whereas it is comparatively easy to expose and remove a sequestrum in an aseptic case so as to secure ..."

6. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty-one Lectures by Theodor Billroth, Charles Elihu Hackley, Alexander von Winiwarter (1883)
"Hence we should expect that the elimination of the sequestrum would not require ... But the reabsorption of the sequestrum has its limits: first, of course, ..."

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