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Webster 1913 Edition
osteoclasis
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osˊte-o-cla′sis
,Noun.
[NL. See
Osteoclast
.] (Surg.)
The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.
☞ The osteoclasts occur usually in pits or cavities which they appear to have excavated, and are supposed to be concerned in the absorption of the bone matrix.
2.
An instrument for performing osteoclasis.