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malunion en · NOUN

Etymology

From mal- + union.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Bad or incorrect union (of parts of the body).
    • Thus, relevant mid-term complications, such as humeral head necrosis, malunion and nonunion may not have been detected. 2015 July 4, Benjamin Bockmann et al., “Mid-term results of a less-invasive locking plate fixation method for proximal humeral fractures: a prospective observational study”, in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, volume 16, →DOI:
    • Near-synonym: misunion (sometimes synonymous)

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Coordinates

disunion

Synonyms

misunion