{
    "matter": "PER-22",
    "document_type": "Patent terminology definitions",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "term": "bone graft harvest site",
            "definition": "\"Bone graft harvest site\" refers to a location or area within a donor, within or on donor anatomy, or within a graft source that will be used to obtain a bone graft."
        },
        {
            "term": "boundary",
            "definition": "“Boundary” refers to a structure, line, or area where an object, surface, line, area, or operation is or is expected to begin and/or end. A boundary can be similar to a border."
        },
        {
            "term": "dimension",
            "definition": "\"Dimension\" refers to a measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth. (Search \"dimension\" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Modified. Accessed Feb. 17, 2023.)"
        },
        {
            "term": "doner bone",
            "definition": "\"Doner bone\" refers to a bone that is used as a source for a bone graft. The bone may be a bone of a patient, in which case the bone graft is an autograft. The doner bone may be a bone of a donor who is of the same species as the patient but not the same genotype, in which case the bone graft is an allograft. The doner bone may be a bone of a donor who is of another species as the patient, in which case the bone graft is a xenograft."
        },
        {
            "term": "harvesting guide or harvester",
            "definition": "“Harvesting guide”, “Graft harvesting guide”, or “Harvester” refers to an instrument designed, engineered, and/or fabricated for facilitating removal of an autograft, allograft, and/or xenograft from a harvesting site. In one aspect, a harvesting guide is unique to a single patient and may include features unique to the patient such as a surface contour, bone engagement surface, resection guides for resecting a graft of a size, shape, configuration, and/or orientation unique to the needs of a single patient, or other features. In one aspect, a harvesting guide includes one or more patient-specific features and/or aspects designed, engineered, and/or fabricated for harvesting a graft for a specific surgical procedure for a specific patient. Alternatively, the harvesting guide may not be patient-specific."
        },
        {
            "term": "jig",
            "definition": "\"Jig\" refers to a device, system, structure, and/or apparatus in manufacturing, fabrication, surgery, or other endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon the workpiece. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, graft harvesting jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others. (Search \"jig\" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Modified. Accessed Feb. 17, 2023.) In the context of a surgical procedure, a jig can facilitate resection and/or shaping of a workpiece such as a tissue graft."
        },
        {
            "term": "osteotomy",
            "definition": "“Osteotomy” refers to a cutting into or through bone and/or removal of bone from a patient."
        },
        {
            "term": "patient specific bone graft insertion site",
            "definition": "\"Patient-specific bone graft insertion site\" refers to a location or area within a patient that is being prepared to or is prepared to receive a bone graft. Often the patient specific bone graft insertion site is an opening in tissue, an organ, a joint, one or more osteotomies, a set of bones, or a single bone."
        }
    ]
}