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Surgical removal of a diseased or injured joint and its replacement with an orthosis.  

The sum of all the potassium in the human body, used as one indicator of muscle mass. More than half of the potassium in the human body is within skeletal muscle.  

Beaded; noting an aggregate of colonies like those seen in the budding of yeast.  

Former name of a genus of yeast like organisms, now called Cryptococcus.  

Muscular spasms that distort the spine and hip.  

An abnormal position of the head owing to organic shortening of the muscles.  

Malocclusion characterized by rotation of a tooth on its long axis. The tooth is rotated around its own axis.  

Rotation of a tooth around its long axis.  

A device for measuring the rotation of the vertebral column around the long axis using radiographs of the spine.  

A device for measuring the rotation of the eyeball around the visual axis (i.e., its anterior posterior axis).