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rotationplasties

rotationplasties is the plural of rotationplasty.

Meaning of rotationplasty

Noun

rotationplasty (countable and uncountable, plural rotationplasties)

  1. A type of autograft in which a portion of an arm or leg is removed, while the remaining limb below the excised portion is rotated and reattached.
    • The tibia is rotated 180° and fused to the femur Hillmann and colleagues published a report comparing endoprosthetic replacement to rotationplasty in 67 patients, both adults and children, with malignant tumours of the distal femur or proximal tibia.2009, José Cañadell, Mikel San-Julian, Pediatric Bone Sarcomas: Epiphysiolysis before excision, →ISBN, page 49

Questions about rotationplasties

What is rotationplasties the plural of?
Rotationplasties is the plural of rotationplasty.

Words near rotationplasties in the dictionary

  1. rotational symmetry
  2. rotationalities
  3. rotationality
  4. rotationally
  5. rotationals
  6. rotationplasties
  7. rotationplasty
  8. rotations
  9. rotative
  10. rotatively
  11. rotativity

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