The surgical operation of dividing a bone or cutting out a piece of bone.
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Surgical division or sectioning of bone.
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(surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting a bone. This is often performed to either lengthen, shorten, or straighten a bone.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
osteotomy
Plural:
osteotomies
Origin of osteotomy
osteo- +"Ž -tomy
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Osteotomy Sentence Examples
Sometimes the bone around the old femoral implant has to be cut into sections before being removed, in a process called an osteotomy.
There is no difference in the reported clinical results of medial displacement posterior calcaneal osteotomy and lateral column lengthening.
Sometimes a wedge of bone is taken out (closing wedge osteotomy ).
Proximal metatarsal osteotomy will give a good correction of the deformity combined with a distal soft tissue correction of the deformity combined with a distal soft tissue correction.
A combined posterior medial displacement calcaneal osteotomy and Evans osteotomy was used, with transfer of FDL to the medial cuneiform and TA lengthening.