Crossword-Solution: OSTEOTOMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Osteotomy | n. | The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology. |
| Osteotomy | n. | The operation of dividing a bone or of cutting a piece out of it, -- done to remedy deformity, etc. |
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| Removal of a part of bone in surgery | 1 answer |
| surgical cutting or dividing of bone | 1 answer |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with OSTEOTOMY (5)
When bony ankylosis has occurred with the joint in an undesirable attitude--for example flexion at the hip or knee--it can sometimes be remedied by osteotomy or by a wedge-shaped resection of the bone, with or without such additional division of the contracted soft parts as will permit of the limb being placed in the attitude desired.
The existence of perforations scarcely increased to an important extent the gravity of a wound of the soft parts alone; in fact, this injury could not be regarded as more severe than an ordinary surgical osteotomy, putting the risks of infection of the wound under the special circumstances on one side.
Bones divided in the course of an operation, for example in osteotomy for knock-knee, or wedge-shaped resection for bow-leg, are repaired by the same process as fractures.
Tendon and nerve-transplantation are scarcely possible, and arthrodesis is rarely to be recommended; contracture deformities, however, are often benefited by tenotomy in young children, and in older children by osteotomy through the trochanter, and putting the limb up in the abducted position.
Lateral dislocation of the patella is met with in extreme forms of _knock-knee_, and after correction of this deformity by osteotomy, and its possible occurrence should be guarded against at the time of the operation.