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Osteoarthritis, Hip

"Osteoarthritis, Hip" 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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Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the hip joint which usually appears in late middle or old age. It is characterized by growth or maturational disturbances in the femoral neck and head, as well as acetabular dysplasia. A dominant symptom is pain on weight-bearing or motion.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Osteoarthritis, Hip" by people in this website by year, and whether "Osteoarthritis, Hip" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 22 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2005
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