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Bira amputation

Bira amputation (A. K. of G. Bier, German surgeon, 1861-1949; lat. amputatio, from amputare – to cut off, cut) – osteoplastic cutting off of a shin within an average third at which cross opit bones becomes covered by a bone and periosteal rag from a bast layer of a tibial bone for formation of a basic stump.

 
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