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Record 1 1996-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
CONT

Using the Hannover Pelvis Database, the authors analysed 228 floating hips treated between 1972-1994. (From American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 1996 Annual Meeting Scientific Program, cited in INTERNET).

OBS

floating: Being or capable of being displaced from its normal position ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
OBS

flottant : Qui n'est pas attaché fixement et a une relative liberté de mouvements. [...] Pathologie. Rein flottant ou mobile.

OBS

par analogie avec «genou flottant», relevé dans l'Encyclopédie médico-chirurgicale (EMAPP, 1995, vol. 3, n° 14086A10, p. 7).

Spanish

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