Look up: sequestrum

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   Sequestrum
   A piece of dead tissue which has become isolated from the surrounding living tissue.
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   Sequestrum
   A piece of dead bone lying alongside, but separated from, the osseous bed whence it came. It is formed when a section of bone is deprived of its blood supply and the natural processes create a cleavage between the dead and the living bone. A sequestrum may be aseptic (sterile), as for example beneath a plate when there has been massive periosteal s...
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   Sequestrum
   Piece of dead bone
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   Sequestrum
   A portion of dead bone which has become detached from the healthy bone tissue.
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   Sequestrum
   Se·ques'trum noun ; plural Sequestra . [ New Latin See Sequester .] (Medicine) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
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   sequestrum
   <orthopaedics, radiology> A piece of dead bone that has become separated during the process of necrosis from the sound bone. ... Sequelae of osteomyelitis, sequestrum, necrotic bone, often denser than surroundings, may be resorbed, discharged through a sinus tract, or persist as a focus of continued infection, involucrum, bone formed beneath e ...
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   Sequestrum
   A `sequestrum` is a piece of dead bone that has become separated during the process of necrosis from normal/sound bone. It is a complication (sequelae) of osteomyelitis. The pathological process is as follows: *infection in the bone leads to an increase in intramedullary pressure due to inflammatory exudates *the periosteum becomes stripped from the osteum, leading to vascular thrombosis *bone necrosis follows due to lack of blood supply *seques...
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   sequestrum
   (se-kwes´trәm) a piece of dead bone that has become separated from sound bone during the process of necrosis. Formation of a sequestrum: (A), sound bone; (B), new bone; (C), granulations lining involucrum; (D), cloaca; (E), sequestrum. any tissue that has become seque...
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   Sequestrum
   • (n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
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    sequestrum
    a piece of dead bone that has become separated during the process of necrosis from the sound bone.
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    sequestrum
    sequestrum A piece of dead bone that has become separated during the process of necrosis from sound bone.
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    sequestrum
    A piece of necrotic tissue, usually bone, that has become separated from the surrounding healthy tissue. [Mod. L. use of Mediev. L. sequestrum, something laid aside, fr. L. sequestro, to lay aside, separate]
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