arthroplasty

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noun

The surgical repair or replacement of a joint.

πŸ’¬ Usage Examples

β€œHe started into a detailed description of the total hip arthroplasty he’d just finished with such enthusiasm it would be easy to assume this was the first hip he’d ever replaced, not the two-thousandth.” Peter Hogenkamp; The Intern; TouchPoint Press; 2020.
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