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Chondroplasty
Introduction
Editors-In-Chief: Martin I. Newman, M.D., FACS, Cleveland Clinic Florida, [1]; Michel C. Samson, M.D., FRCSC, FACS [2]
Overview
Overview
Chondroplasty refers to surgery of the cartilage, the most common being corrective surgery of the cartilage of the knee.
Surgery known as thyroid chondroplasty (or trachea shave) is used to reduce the visibility of the Adam’s Apple in transsexual women.
Adjectives
Adjectives
Chondroplastic — pertaining to plastic operations on cartilage.
Nouns
Nouns
Chondrotome — An instrument for cutting the cartilage.
Chondrotomy — the dissection or surgical division of cartilage.
- Dorland’s Medical Dictionary (1938)