mosaicplasty
English
noun
Definitions
- (surgery) 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
Etymology
Suffix from English mosaic.
Origin
English
mosaic
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- demosaic English
- micromosaic English
- mosaic English
- mosaical English
- mosaicism English
- mosaicist English
- mosaicity English
- mosaicked English
- mosaiclike English
- mosaiculture English
- nanomosaic English
- nonmosaic English
- orthomosaic English
- photomosaic English
- mosaïque Middle French
- 馬賽克 Chinese