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false joint

noun

a nontechnical name for pseudoarthrosis

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Historical Examples of 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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