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As used herein, a "handle" or “knob” refers to a structure used to hold, control, or manipulate a device, apparatus, component, tool, or the like. A “handle” may be designed to be grasped and/or held using one or two hands of a user. In certain embodiments, a handle or knob may be an elongated structure. In one embodiment, a knob may be a shorter stubby structure. |
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As used herein, "implant" refers to a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure, support a damaged biological structure, or enhance an existing biological structure. Often medical implants are man-made devices, but implants can also be natural occurring structures. The surface of implants that contact the body may be made of, or include a biomedical material such as titanium, cobalt chrome, stainless steel, carbon fiber, another metallic alloy, silicone, polymer, Synthetic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels, biomaterials, biocompatible polymers such as PolyEther Ether Ketone (PEEK) or a polylactide polymer (e.g. PLLA) and/or others, or apatite, or any combination of these depending on what is functional and/or economical. Implants can have a variety of configurations and can be wholly, partially, and/or include a number of components that are flexible, semiflexible, pliable, elastic, supple, semi-rigid, or rigid. In some cases implants contain electronics, e.g. artificial pacemaker and cochlear implants. Some implants are bioactive, such as subcutaneous drug delivery devices in the form of implantable pills or drug-eluting stents. Orthopedic implants may be used to alleviate issues with bones and/or joints of a patient's body. Orthopedic implants can be used to treat bone fractures, osteoarthritis, scoliosis, spinal stenosis, discomfort, and pain. Examples of orthopedic implants include, but are not limited to, a wide variety of pins, rods, screws, anchors, spacers, sutures, all-suture implants, ball all-suture implants, self-locking suture implants, cross-threaded suture implants, plates used to anchor fractured bones while the bones heal or fuse together, and the like. (Search "implant (medicine)" on Wikipedia.com May 26, 2021. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed June 30, 2021.) |
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As used herein, a "body" refers to a main or central part of a structure. The body may serve as a structural component to connect, interconnect, surround, enclose, and/or protect one or more other structural components. A body may be made from a variety of materials including, but not limited to, metal, plastic, ceramic, wood, fiberglass, acrylic, carbon, biocompatible materials, biodegradable materials or the like. A body may be formed of any biocompatible materials, including but not limited to biocompatible metals such as Titanium, Titanium alloys, stainless steel alloys, cobalt-chromium steel alloys, nickel-titanium alloys, shape memory alloys such as Nitinol, biocompatible ceramics, and biocompatible polymers such as Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) or a polylactide polymer (e.g. PLLA) and/or others. In one embodiment, a body may include a housing or frame or framework for a larger system, component, structure, or device. A body may include a modifier that identifies a particular function, location, orientation, operation, and/or a particular structure relating to the body. Examples of such modifiers applied to a body, include, but are not limited to, "inferior body," "superior body," "lateral body," "medial body," and the like. |
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As used herein, "bone engagement surface" refers to a surface of an object, instrument, or apparatus, such as an implant that is oriented toward or faces one or more bones of a patient. In one aspect, the bone engagement surface may abut, touch, or contact a surface of a bone. In another aspect, the bone engagement surface or parts of the bone engagement surface may be close to, but not abut, touch, or contact a surface of the bone. In certain aspects, the bone engagement surface can be configured to engage with a surface of one or more bones. Such a bone engagement surface may include projections, eminences, and/or recesses that correspond to and/or match anatomical features, bony topography, landmarks, projections, and/or recesses of the one or more bone surfaces. |
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"Bone engagement feature" refers to a structure, feature, component, aspect configured to contact, touch, abut, and/or engage with a bone, a bone part, and/or a bone fragment. A bone engagement feature may enable temporary engagement with a bone or bone fragment or permanent engagement with a bone or bone fragment. A bone engagement feature may include a bone engagement surface and a body section that supports the bone engagement surface. In certain embodiments, a bone engagement feature may include a bone probe. In one embodiment, a bone engagement feature may include a landmark registration feature. |
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"Frangible" refers to a type of material designed, engineered, and/or configured to break easily under an expected force. Frangible objects may be designed to break easily under the expected force to provide a safety feature, a convenience feature, or the like. Frangible objects can be made from metal, plastic, ceramics, wood, paper, or the like. Frangible also includes something that is breakable or fragile; especially something that is intentionally made so. (Search "frangible" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Accessed 11 May 2023. Modified.) |
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As used herein, “side” refers to a structure or part of a structure including, but not limited to: one of a longer bounding surfaces or lines of an object especially contrasted with the ends, a line or surface forming a border or face of an object, either surface of a thin object, a bounding line or structure of a geometric figure or shape, and the like. (search "side" on Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, 2021. Web. 03 Aug. 2021. Modified.) A side can also refer to a geometric edge of a polygon (two-dimensional shape) and/or a face or surface of a polyhedron (three-dimensional shape). (Search "side" on Wikipedia.com July 21, 2021. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed Aug. 03, 2021.) Side can also refer to a location on a structure. For example, a side can be a location on a structure at, or near, a furthest position away from a central axis of the structure. As used herein, the term “side” can include one or more modifiers that define and/or orient and/or distinguish the side of an object from others based on based on where and/or how the object is deployed within or in relation to a second object. For example, in the context of an implant for a patient, sides of the implant may be labeled based on where the sides are relative to the patient when the implant is deployed. As one example, an “anterior side” of an implant, instrument, anatomical structure, or other structure refers to a side that is anterior to other sides of the structure in relation to a patient when the structure is deployed in the patient. As another example, in the context of an instrument used with a patient, sides of the instrument may be labeled based on where the sides are when the instrument is being used for its purpose. As one example, a “front side” of an instrument refers to a side that is facing a user of the instrument when the instrument is in use. |
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As used herein, a “deploy” or "deployment" refers to an act, action, process, system, method, means, or apparatus for inserting an implant or prosthesis into a part, body part, and/or patient. “Deploy” or "deployment" can also refer to an act, action, process, system, method, means, or apparatus for placing something into therapeutic use. A device, system, component, medication, drug, compound, or nutrient may be deployed by a human operator, a mechanical device, an automated system, a computer system or program, a robotic system, or the like. |
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"Joint" or "Articulation" refers to the connection made between bones in a human or animal body which link the skeletal system to form a functional whole. Joints may be biomechanically classified as a simple joint, a compound joint, or a complex joint. Joints may be classified anatomically into groups such as joints of hand, elbow joints, wrist joints, axillary joints, sternoclavicular joints, vertebral articulations, temporomandibular joints, sacroiliac joints, hip joints, knee joints, articulations of foot, and the like. (Search "joint" on Wikipedia.com Dec. 19, 2021. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed Jan 20, 2022.) |
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"Tissue" refers to a structure that makes up a one or more anatomical structures of a patient (i.e., human or animal). Tissue can be soft tissue or hard tissue. "Soft tissue" refers to tissue of a patient (i.e., human or animal). Examples of soft tissue include but are not limited to skin, ligament, tendon, fascia, fat muscle, fibrous tissue, blood vessels, lymph vessels, brain tissue, and/or nerves. "Hard tissue" refers to any human or animal tissue that is not soft tissue. Examples of hard tissue include bone, teeth, tooth enamel, dentin, cementum, cartilage, or the like. |
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“Topographical” refers to the physical distribution of parts, structures, or features on the surface of, or within, an organ or other anatomical structure, or organism. (Search “define topographical” on google.com. Oxford Languages, Copyright 2022. Oxford University Press. Web., Modified. Accessed 15 Feb. 2022.) |
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“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. |
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"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. |
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“Landmark” refers to a structure on, in, or around a structure that can be used to serve as a reference for positioning, orienting, translating, rotating, or otherwise manipulating a second object or structure. For example, a landmark may include a protrusion, a projection, a tuberosity, a cavity, a void, a divot, a tab, an extension, a hook, a curve, or the like. In the context of bones of a patient, a landmark can include any protuberance, eminence, bony topography, anatomical features, calcifications, void, divot, concave section, sesamoid, bone spur or other feature on, or extending from, a bone of a patient. A landmark refers to any structure of an anatomical structure that is referenced, contacted, engaged with and/or associated with a landmark registration feature. In certain embodiments, a landmark is unique to one patient. |
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"Probe bone engagement surface" refers to a bone engagement surface on one surface of a probe or part of a probe. |
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“Landmark configuration” refers to an arrangement and/or organization of landmarks within, about, or around a certain area. In the context of bones, a landmark configuration may include a grouping of two or more landmarks on or about a specific surface of a bone. In one embodiment, a landmark configuration can include landmarks that abut and/or are covered by a bone engagement surface as the bone engagement surface is brought closer to a surface of the bone. |
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"Configuration" refers to an arrangement, setup, design, organization, or values of one or more parts, features, settings, components, aspects, structures, or the like as a module, component, apparatus, device, system, framework, platform, dashboard, assembly, or the like. Examples of configurations can include how dials are setup on a dashboard, levers are set on a control board, switches are set within a controller, bones are arranged within a hand, foot, or limb, or the like. |
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"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. Examples of a bone attachment feature, include, but are not limited to, a pin, K-wire, screw, or other fastener alone, or in combination with, a hole, passage, and/or opening. |
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"Feedback" refers to a reactionary response to an action, a product, service, or task. (Search "feedback" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Modified. Accessed 28 Aug. 2023.) "Haptic" refers to a signal, feeling, or action that a user or receiver can feel using their sense of touch. Thus, haptic feedback is a kind of feedback that a user can feel or detect using their sense of touch. |
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"Tendon trajectory guide" refers to any structure, apparatus, surface, device, system, feature, or aspect configured to indicate, identify, guide, place, position, or otherwise assist in marking or deploying a fastener or other structure along a desired trajectory for one or more subsequent steps in a procedure. |
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