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mosaicplasty

mosaicplasty noun: the harvesting and transplanting of many small cylindrical osteochondral plugs from the less weight-bearing periphery of the patellofemoral area and inserting them into drilled tunnels in the defective section of cartilage.

Noun

mosaicplasty (plural mosaicplasties)

  1. The harvesting and transplanting of many small cylindrical osteochondral plugs from the less weight-bearing periphery of the patellofemoral area and inserting them into drilled tunnels in the defective section of cartilage
    • Following this logic, multiple treatment options including microfracture, mosaicplasty, and autologous chondrocyte implantation have been explored [3 ].2015 July 30, “Cold Atmospheric Plasma Modified Electrospun Scaffolds with Embedded Microspheres for Improved Cartilage Regeneration”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of mosaicplasty

pluralmosaicplasties

Origin of mosaicplasty

From mosaic + -plasty.

Questions about mosaicplasty

What does mosaicplasty mean?
Mosaicplasty means the harvesting and transplanting of many small cylindrical osteochondral plugs from the less weight-bearing periphery of the patellofemoral area and inserting them into drilled tunnels in the defective section of cartilage.
What part of speech is mosaicplasty?
Mosaicplasty is a noun.
What is the plural of mosaicplasty?
The plural of mosaicplasty is mosaicplasties.

Words near mosaicplasty in the dictionary

  1. mosaicking
  2. mosaickings
  3. mosaicks
  4. mosaiclike
  5. mosaicplasties
  6. mosaicplasty
  7. mosaicry
  8. mosaics
  9. mosaiculture
  10. mosaicultures
  11. Mosaism

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