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false joint

noun

a nontechnical name for pseudoarthrosis

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Nearby words

fight or flight reaction, fight shy of, fight tooth and nail, fight-or-flight, fight-or-flight reaction, false joint, fighter, fighter-bomber, fighter-interceptor, fighting, fighting chair
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Examples from the Web for false joint

  • Non-union, false-joint, or fibrous union is but rarely met with.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles

Medicine definitions for false joint

false joint

n.

A bony junction, usually occurring at the site of a poorly united fracture, that allows abnormal motion.pseudarthrosis
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