osteoclasis
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Noun (1)
- treatment of a skeletal deformity by intentionally fracturing a boneType of treatment, intervention
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
os′te·o·cla′sis noun
Origin: NL. See Osteoclast.
Surgery The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54