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saucerization

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saucerization /sau·cer·iza·tion/ (saw?ser-i-za´shun)
1. the excavation of tissue to form a shallow shelving depression, usually performed to facilitate drainage from infected areas of bone.
2. the shallow saucer-like depression on the upper surface of a vertebra which has suffered a compression fracture.

sau·cer·i·za·tion (sôsr--zshn)
n.
Surgical excavation of tissue to form a shallow depression to facilitate drainage from infected areas of a wound.

saucerization (sôs´rizā´shn),
n an excavation of the tissue of a wound to form a shallow, saucerlike depression.
saucerization, pericervical,
n the circular bone resorption that occurs about the necks of endosteal implants shortly after their insertion and continues slowly during the time of the implant's biologic presence.

saucerization
1. the excavation of tissue to form a shallow shelving depression, usually performed to facilitate drainage from infected areas of bone.
2. the shallow saucer-like depression on the anterior surface of a vertebra which has suffered a compression fracture.

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