Meaning & use
osteoclasis
The deliberate surgical or manual fracturing of a bone in order to correct a deformity.
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The surgeon performed an osteoclasis to reset the child's badly healed forearm bone.
Before modern orthopedic techniques, osteoclasis was sometimes done to correct bowed legs.
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Osteoclasis is a specialized medical term, rarely used outside orthopedic surgery and medical literature.
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