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osteotomy

noun/ˌɒstɪˈɒtəmi/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A surgical procedure in which a bone is cut to shorten, lengthen or realign it.

A high tibial osteotomy redistributes load away from the arthritic medial compartment of the knee.

Topic: Musculoskeletal in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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