false joint
Britishnoun
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If Canning has surgery, a screw would be inserted to stabilize the false joint created by the stress reaction in his back.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2022
If Canning decides on surgery, he would undergo a procedure in which a screw would be inserted to stabilize the false joint created by the stress reaction.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2022
Want of union, or the formation of a false joint in one or both bones, is sometimes met with, particularly in children, and, like the corresponding fracture of the leg, is liable to prove intractable.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
Delayed union, want of union, and the formation of a false joint have already been referred to.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
When a bone is broken and does not unite, the ends are absorbed and rounded, so that a false joint is formed; or if the ends unite, but overlap, the projecting parts are removed.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
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