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| A fracture of a bone weakened by disease |
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| An abnormal union formed by fibrous tissue between parts of a bone that has fractured usu. spontaneously due to congenital weakness. Also called "false joint" |
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| break passing entirely across the bone. |
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| Fracture that is not broken entirely across |
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| A bone fracture in young individuals in which the bone is partly broken and partly bent |
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| The act or process of breaking or the state of being broken; the breaking or hard tissue (as bone) or rupture (tearing)of soft tissue |
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| A bending movement around a joint in a limb (as knee or elbow) that decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at joint forward raising of leg or arm at shoulder or hip joint |
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| The action or process of resorbing something; to breakdown and assimilate |
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| Situated around or produced external to bone: Related to or involving the periosteum. |
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| A new growth of tissue serving no physiological function. |
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| Fracture (as of a vertebra) caused by compression of one bone against another. |
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| fracture in which the bone is splintered or crushed into numerous pieces. |
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| A fracture that is not covered with unbroken skin. |
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| Necrosis of bone tissue due to impaired or disrupted blood supply (as caused by traumatic injury or disease) resulting in weakened bone that may flatten and collapse--Also called Osteonecrosis |
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| An abnormal and usu. degenerative state of the nervous system or nerves; also: a systemic condition that stems from a neuropathy. |
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| A pathological condition in which a tissue has become hard and which is produced by overgrowth of fibrous tissue and other changes (as in arteriosclerosis) or by increase in interstitial tissue and other changes (as in MS)-Also called "hardening" |
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| Stiffness or fixation of a joint by disease or surgery. |
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| Exaggerated backward curvature of the thoracic region of the spinal column. |
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| dislocation of an anatomical part |
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| Partial dislocation (as of one of the bones in a joint) |
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| of, relating to, or secreting synovial fluid (in synovial joints); lined with synovial membrane. |
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| Deficient supply of blood to a body part (as the heart or brain) that is due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blood (as by the narrowing of arteries by spasm or disease) |
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| Decrease in size or wasting away of body part or tissue; also: arrested development or loss of a part or organ incidental to the normal development or life of an animal or plant |
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| An abnormal bony outgrowth or projection (as near a joint affected by osteoarthritis). |
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| Any of various degenerative diseases of the spine. |
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| Myostitis ossificans traumatica |
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| myositis accompanied by ossification of muscle tissue or bony deposits in the muscles |
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| tearing away of a body part accidentally or surgically |
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| 1: The cause or causes of a disease or abnormal condition 2: A branch of medical science dealing with the causes and origin of diseases. |
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| Spur or bony outgrowth from a bone or the root of a tooth |
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| of or relating to the endosteum. located within bone or cartilage. |
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| medical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, thus exposing the dura mater in order to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases |
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| the formation of conversion into or process of discharging puss |
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| 1: The formation of a sequestrum. 2: The process of sequestrum or result of being sequestered, the process of repressing undesired chemical or biological activity. |
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| To sear with a cautery or caustic to burn or destroy tissue |
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| breaking legs of crucified felons |
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| An abnormal change in structure of an organ or part due to injury or disease |
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