{
    "matter": "PER-12",
    "document_type": "Patent terminology definitions",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "term": "bone attachment feature",
            "definition": "\"Bone attachment feature\" refers to a structure, feature, component, aspect configured to securely connect, couple, attach, and/or engage a structure, component, object, or body with a bone and/or a bone fragment. A bone attachment feature may enable temporary engagement with a bone or bone fragment or permanent engagement with a bone or bone fragment. Examples of a bone attachment feature, include, but are not limited to, a pin, a spike, a tine, a K-wire, a screw, or other fastener alone, or a fastener in combination with, a hole, passage, and/or opening, an adhesive, a cement, a barb, a prong, or the like."
        },
        {
            "term": "bridge",
            "definition": "\"Bridge\" refers to a structure, apparatus, system, and/or construct that spans a divide or opening and/or connects one side of a divide or opening to another side. (Search \"bridge\" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Modified. Accessed 13 June 2023.)"
        },
        {
            "term": "comminuted fracture",
            "definition": "\"Comminuted fracture\" refers to a break in a bone where the break is in two or more pieces. (Search \"bone fracture\" on Wikipedia.com Apr. 21, 2022. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed June 8, 2022.)"
        },
        {
            "term": "contour",
            "definition": "\"Contour\" refers to an outline representing or bounding a shape or form of an object. Contour can also refer to an outside limit of an object, area, or surface of the object."
        },
        {
            "term": "fin",
            "definition": "\"Fin\" refers to an appendage to another structure. A fin can also refer to a thin, rigid component or structure used to stabilize, direct, and/or orient a connected structure. (Search \"fin\" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Modified. Accessed 13 June 2023.)"
        },
        {
            "term": "landmark registration feature",
            "definition": "\"Landmark registration feature\" refers to a structure configured to engage, contact, or abut a feature, aspect, attribute, or characteristic of a first object to orient and/or position a second object that includes the landmark registration feature with respect to the first object. A variety of structures can serve as a landmark registration feature. For example, a surface, a probe, a finger, a wing, an arm, an opening, or the like can function as landmark registration features. A landmark registration feature can be of a variety of shapes and thus can include a protrusion, a projection, a tuberosity, a cavity, a void, a divot, a tab, an extension, a hook, a curve, or the like."
        },
        {
            "term": "trajectory",
            "definition": "\"Trajectory\" refers to a path a body travels or a path configured for a body to travel through space. (Search \"trajectory\" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Modified. Accessed 13 June 2023.)"
        },
        {
            "term": "vertex",
            "definition": "\"Vertex\" refers to a point at which lines, structures, trajectories, or pathways intersect."
        },
        {
            "term": "wedge osteotomy",
            "definition": "\"Wedge osteotomy\" refers to an osteotomy procedure in which one or more wedges are used as part of the procedure. Generally, wedge osteotomies can be of one of two types, open wedge and closing wedge. The type of osteotomy refers to how the procedure changes the relation between two parts of a bone involved in the osteotomy. In an open wedge osteotomy a wedge of bone or graft or other material is inserted in between two parts of a bone. Consequently, a wedge shape is \"opened\" in the bone. In a close/closed wedge osteotomy or closing wedge osteotomy, a wedge of bone is removed from a bone. Consequently, a wedge shape formed in the bone is \"closed.\""
        }
    ]
}