parallagma

parallagma

 [par″ah-lag´mah]

displacement of a bone or of the fragments of broken bone.

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parallagma

(păr″ăl-ăg′mă) [Gr., alternation]

Overlapping or displacement of the fragments of a fractured bone.

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