Osteoclasy

Quick meaning: Osteoclasy is a noun meaning (medicine) The surgical fracture and resetting of a bone.

Meaning

(medicine) The surgical fracture and resetting of a bone.

Example Sentences

He had performed upwards of twenty osteotomies, and nearly as many osteoclasies.

We need not here discuss the performance of instrumental osteoclasy, for it has never been received with favour in this country.

Word Forms

• osteoclasies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include osteoclasis, osteoclast, diaclasis, osteosuture, osteosynthesis, acroosteolysis.

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