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- noun Plural form of
fixator .
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Examples
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External fixators for the treatment of bone fractures have already arrived in Cairo, bound for the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
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Occasionally, adjustments to the external fixators are required in the office.
Dr. Rock Positano: Courting Controversy: Cosmetic Limb Lengthening Surgery 2008
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The third reason we prefer bilateral tibial rather than femoral lengthening is that it is much easier and better tolerated to have two external fixators on both lower legs than on both thighs.
Dr. Rock Positano: Courting Controversy: Cosmetic Limb Lengthening Surgery 2008
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There are four types of skeletal muscles: prime movers, antagonists, synergists and fixators.
Muscles Part 1 2008
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He wouldn't be able to walk during that time because both legs would be in fixators.
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At the end of the lengthening there is second surgery to insert the intramedullary nails, and the external fixators are removed.
Dr. Rock Positano: Courting Controversy: Cosmetic Limb Lengthening Surgery 2008
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The MSF team donated medical supplies to these facilities, including consumables, dressing, sutures, anesthesia drugs, and external fixators.
Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2011
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Some centres also requested surgical equipment, "such as external fixators and oxygen", which MSF will provide in the next few days, and will bring in additional medical staff.
The Guardian World News Matthew Weaver 2011
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Monolateral, circular and hybrid external fixators
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"Strong and resorbable smart implants could have paradigm-changing impact on a number of surgical interventions that currently rely on the use of more invasive and less effective metallic cages, fixators and stents," said Song.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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