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Joint Prosthesis

"Joint Prosthesis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Prostheses used to partially or totally replace a human or animal joint. (from UMDNS, 1999)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Joint Prosthesis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Joint Prosthesis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 21 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2015
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