mosaicplasty
Meanings
noun
- The harvesting and transplanting of many small cylindrical osteochondral plugs from the less weight-bearing periphery of the patellofemoral area and inserting them into drilled tunnels in the defective section of cartilage
Word forms
Etymology
From mosaic + -plasty.
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