osteotome
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- noun
- /ˈɑːstiəˌtoʊm/
- Specialized
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osteótomo
- In orthopedic surgery, an osteotome helps in shaping the bone for transplantation.
- thin osteotome
- lateral osteotome
- straight osteotome
Enter Scottish doctors John Aiken and James Jeffrey and their osteotome, also known as a Mother chainsaw bra.
- Enter Scottish doctors John Aiken and James Jeffrey and their osteotome, also known as a Mother chainsaw bra.
Examples
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One straight osteotome that the surgeon carefully guides at a slight angle is all that is necessary on both sides.
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A thin guarded osteotome will readily raise the periosteum at the same time.
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An even thinner straight osteotome may be used through the same pyriform aperture opening as described.
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It is important to use a thin lateral osteotome so that only the bone, and not the internal lining of the nose, is cut.
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Other instruments, such as the U-shaped Rubin lateral osteotome, can be used just as effectively.
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The medial osteotome can be placed medial to this fragment, which can be outfractured.
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The small osteotome is then used to puncture the base of this triangular fragment and separate it from the naso-frontal process.
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Prejudgment of the lateral osteotomy depends upon how far the lateral cut should be made with the osteotome.
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The surgeon used a osteotome to carefully cut through the dense bone during the procedure.
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For precise bone preparation, a sharp osteotome is essential in surgical operations.
How Strong
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Surface Forms
Morphology
osteotome = osteotomy (opaque) = osteo + tome
Formed from specialized combining forms (osteo- + -tome) whose meanings are technical and not obvious to a typical B1 learner, so the sense is not reliably derivable from common English base words.
Etymology
Osteotome comes from Greek parts osteo- meaning 'bone' and -tome meaning 'to cut', the same idea you see in lobotomy ('cutting a lobe'). So an osteotome is literally a 'bone cutter', which is why surgeons use it to cut or shape bone.