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tricortical

tricortical adjective: connected to three cortical plates.

Adjective

tricortical (not comparable)

  1. Connected to three cortical plates
    • The tricortical iliac crest bone grafts also have good biomechanical performance and can withstand strong compression forces.2015 May 10, Jian-Hua Li et al., “Surgical treatment of lumbosacral tuberculosis by one-stage debridement and anterior instrumentation with allograft through an extraperitoneal anterior approach”, in...

Origin of tricortical

From tri- + cortical.

Questions about tricortical

What does tricortical mean?
Tricortical means connected to three cortical plates.
What part of speech is tricortical?
Tricortical is an adjective.

Words near tricortical in the dictionary

  1. tricornuted
  2. tricorporal
  3. tricorporate
  4. tricorporated
  5. tricorporeal
  6. tricortical
  7. tricorticate
  8. tricorythid
  9. tricosadiene
  10. tricosadienes
  11. tricosahydrate

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