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As used herein, a "fixator" refers to an apparatus, instrument, structure, device, component, member, system, assembly, or module structured, organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to connect two bones or bone fragments or a single bone or bone fragment and another fixator to position and retain the bone or bone fragments in a desired position and/or orientation. Examples of fixators include both those for external fixation as well as those for internal fixation and include, but are not limited to pins, wires, Kirschner wires, screws, anchors, bone anchors, plates, bone plates, intramedullary nails or rods or pins, implants, interbody cages, fusion cages, and the like. Fixation refers to the act of deploying or using a fixator to fix two structures together. |
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As used herein, an “anchor" refers to an apparatus, instrument, structure, member, part, device, component, system, or assembly structured, organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to secure, retain, stop, and/or hold, an object to or at a fixed point, position, or location. Often, an anchor is coupled and/or connected to a flexible member such as a tether, chain, rope, wire, thread, suture, suture tape, or other like object. Alternatively, or in addition, an anchor may also be coupled, connected, and/or joined to a rigid object or structure. In certain embodiments, an anchor can be a fixation device. Said another way, a fixation device can function as an anchor. In certain embodiments, the term anchor may be used as an adjective that describes a function, feature, or purpose for the noun the adjective ‘anchor’ describes. For example, an anchor hole is a hole that serves as or can be used as an anchor. |
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"Bone condition" refers to any of a variety of conditions of bones of a patient. Generally, a bone condition refers to an orientation, position, and/or alignment of one or more bones of the patient relative to other anatomical structures of the body of the patient. Bone conditions may be caused by or result from deformities, misalignment, malrotation, fractures, joint failure, and/or the like. A bone condition includes, but is not limited to, any angular deformities of one or more bone segments in either the lower or upper extremities (for example, tibial deformities, calcaneal deformities, femoral deformities, and radial deformities). Alternatively, or in addition, “bone condition” can refer to the structural makeup and configuration of one or more bones of a patient. Thus bone condition may refer to a state or condition of regions, a thickness of a cortex, bone density, a thickness and/or porosity of internal regions (e.g. whether it is calcaneus or solid) of the bone or parts of the bone such as a head, a base, a shaft, a protuberance, a process, a lamina, a foramen, and the like of a bone, along the metaphyseal region, epiphysis region, and/or a diaphyseal region. |
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"Connector" refers to any structure configured, engineered, designed, adapted, and/or arranged to connect one structure, component, element, or apparatus to another structure, component, element, or apparatus. A connector can be rigid, pliable, elastic, flexible, and/or semiflexible. Examples of a connector include but are not limited to a fastener. |
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As used herein, a “condition” refers to a state of something with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order. In certain aspects, a condition may refer to a patient's state of health or physical fitness or the state of health or physical fitness of an organ or anatomical part of a patient. In certain embodiments, a condition may refer to an illness, defect, disease, or deformity of a patient or of an organ or anatomical part of a patient. (Search "condition" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2021. Web. Accessed 8 Dec. 2021. Modified.) |
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"Clearance" refers to a space or opening that provides an unobstructed area to permit one object to move freely in relation to another object. |
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"Correction," in a medical context, refers to a process, procedure, device, instrument, apparatus, system, implant, or the like that is configured, designed, developed, fabricated, configured, and/or organized to adjust, translate, move, orient, rotate, or otherwise change an anatomical structure from an original position, location, and/or orientation to a new position, location, and/or orientation that provides a benefit to a patient. The benefit may be one of appearance, anatomical function, pain relief, increased mobility, increased strength, and the like. |
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"Uniplanar correction" refers to a medical correction, which can include an osteo correction, in one plane (e.g., one of a sagittal plane, a transverse plane, and a coronal/frontal plane) of an anatomical structure such as a foot, hand, or body of a patient. |
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"Biplanar correction" refers to a medical correction, which can include an osteo correction, in two planes (e.g., two of a sagittal plane, a transverse plane, and a coronal/frontal plane) of an anatomical structure such as a foot, hand, or body of a patient. |
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"Triplane correction" refers to a medical correction, which can include an osteo correction, in three planes (e.g., all three planes of a sagittal plane, a transverse plane, and a coronal/frontal plane) of an anatomical structure such as a foot, hand, or body of a patient. |
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"Volatile memory media" or "memory" refers to any hardware, device, component, element, or circuit configured to maintain an alterable physical characteristic used to represent a binary value of zero or one for which the alterable physical characteristic reverts to a default state that no longer represents the binary value when a primary power source is removed or unless a primary power source is used to refresh the represented binary value. Examples of volatile memory media include but are not limited to dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), static random-access memory (SRAM), double data rate random-access memory (DDR RAM) or other random-access solid-state memory. While the volatile memory media is referred to herein as memory media, in various embodiments, the volatile memory media may more generally be referred to as volatile memory. In certain embodiments, data stored in volatile memory media is addressable at a byte level which means that the data in the volatile memory media is organized into bytes (8 bits) of data that each have a unique address, such as a logical address. In one embodiment, memory may include a computer readable storage medium. |
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"Probe" refers to a medical instrument used to explore, identify, locate, or register to, wounds, organs, and/or anatomical structures including a joint or an articular surface. In certain embodiments, a probe can be thin and/or pointed. In one embodiment, a probe is connected, integrated with, and/or coupled to another structure or instrument. In such an embodiment, the probe may serve to facilitate proper positioning of the another structure or instrument. For example, the probe may be used to identify and/or locate a particular anatomical structure and the positioning of the probe may then cause the connected structure or instrument to also be positioned in a desired location relative to one or more anatomical structures. |
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"Processor" refers to any circuitry, component, chip, die, package, or module configured to receive, interpret, decode, and execute machine instructions. A processor may refer to any electronic element that carries out the arithmetic or logical operations performed by a computing device. For example, in one embodiment, a processor may be a general-purpose processor that executes stored program code. In another embodiment, a processor may be a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or the like, that operates on data stored by the memory and/or the storage. Examples of a processor may include, but are not limited to, a central processing unit, a general-purpose processor, an application-specific processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), System on a Chip (SoC), virtual processor, processor core, and the like. |
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As used herein, “manufacturing tool” or "fabrication tool" refers to a manufacturing or fabrication process, tool, system, or apparatus which creates an object, device, apparatus, feature, or component using one or more source materials. A manufacturing tool or fabrication tool can use a variety of manufacturing processes, including but not limited to additive manufacturing, subtractive manufacturing, forging, casting, and the like. The manufacturing tool can use a variety of materials including polymers, thermoplastics, metals, biocompatible materials, biodegradable materials, ceramics, biochemicals, and the like. A manufacturing tool may be operated manually by an operator, automatically using a computer numerical controller (CNC), or a combination of these techniques. |
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"Friction fit" refers to a type of joint or connection that is created between two components by means of friction. A joint or connection that is formed using a friction fit may or may not include the use of additional fasteners such as screws, bolts, or adhesives. In a friction fit, the components are designed or configured to fit tightly together, creating enough friction between the surfaces to hold them securely in place, at least temporarily. The friction force is generated by the compressive force that is experienced between the components, and can be strong enough to prevent the components from separating under normal conditions. (© ChatGPT Mar. 23 Version, Modified, accessed chat.openai.com/chat May 2, 2023). |
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As used herein, "osteotomy procedure" or "surgical osteotomy" or “osteotomy” refers to a surgical operation in which one or more bones are cut to shorten or lengthen them or to change their alignment. The procedure can include removing one or more portions of bone and/or adding one or more portions of bone or bone substitutes. (Search "osteotomy" on Wikipedia.com Feb. 3, 22, 2021. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed Feb. 15, 2022.) As used herein, "patient-specific osteotomy procedure" refers to an osteotomy procedure that has been adjusted, tailored, modified, or configured to specifically address the anatomy, physiology, condition, abnormalities, needs, or desires of a particular patient. In certain aspects, one patient-specific osteotomy procedure may be useable in connection with only one patient. In other aspects, one patient-specific osteotomy procedure may be useable with a number of patients having a particular class of characteristics. In certain aspects, a patient-specific osteotomy procedure may refer to a non-patient-specific osteotomy procedure that includes one or more patient-specific implants and/or instrumentation. In another aspects, a patient-specific osteotomy procedure may refer to a patient-specific osteotomy procedure that includes one or more patient-specific implants, patient-specific surgical steps, and/or patient-specific instrumentation. |
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"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 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." |
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"Workflow" refers to a process or procedure by which tasks are completed. (Search "workflow" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Accessed 2 June 2023.) |
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"Work Instruction" refers to a set of instructions arranged, configured, organized, and/or formatted for completing a specific task, goal, or objective. In certain embodiments, a work instruction can include all the parameters, context, and other information necessary to complete the specific task, goal, or objective without further information. In another embodiment, a work instruction may include prompts to a user or operator for additional information, particular where certain conditions are met. |
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"Metatarsal" is a bone of a foot of a human or animal. In a human, a foot typically includes five metatarsals which are identified by number starting from the most medial metatarsal, which is referred to as a first metatarsal and moving laterally the next metatarsal is the second metatarsal, and the naming continues in like manner for the third, fourth, and fifth metatarsal. The metatarsal bone includes three parts a base which is a part that is at a proximal end of the metatarsal, a head which is a part that is at a distal end of the metatarsal, and a shaft or neck connects the base to the head. |
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