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"Bone tunnel guide" refers to any structure, apparatus, surface, device, system, feature, or aspect configured to indicate, identify, guide, place, position, or otherwise assist in marking, forming, or deploying a fastener in order to form a bone tunnel. A bone tunnel is a tunnel that extends into and/or through one or more bones. |
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As used herein, "patient-specific osteotomy procedure" refers to an osteotomy procedure that has been adjusted, tailored, modified, or configured to specifically address the needs or desires or 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. |
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"Ankle fusion procedure" refers to a surgical procedure that seeks to immobilize an ankle joint of a patient. The surgery fuses two or more bones of the ankle of the patient. The surgery involves the use of screws, plates, medical nails, and other hardware or fasteners to achieve bone union. Ankle fusion is considered to be the gold standard for treatment of end-stage ankle arthritis. Ankle fusion trades joint mobility for relief from pain. (Search "ankle fusion" on Wikipedia.com Dec. 21, 2022. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed June 28, 2023.) An ankle fusion procedure may also be referred to as ankle arthrodesis, talocrural joint fusion, tibiotalar arthrodesis, and tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis. An ankle fusion procedure can be performed using a variety of approaches to the ankle including an anterior approach, a posterior approach, a lateral approach and a medial approach. Each approach may use common or different instrumentation or implants for the procedure. |
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“Deformity” refers to any abnormality in or of an organism, a part of an organism, or an anatomical structure of a patient that appears or functions differently than is considered normal, or is common, in relation to the same organism, a part of an organism, or an anatomical structure of other subjects of the same species as the patient. (Search "deformity" on Wikipedia.com June 13, 2023. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed June 28, 2023.) |
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"Prescription" or "Prescribed" refers to an instruction, request, direction, determination, designation, authorization, and/or order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine, preparation of an implant, preparation of an instrument, or other intervention. Often a prescription is written. Prescription can also refer to the prescribed medicine or intervention. (Search "prescription" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Accessed 3 May 2023. Modified.) |
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"User directions" refers to any request, instruction, direction, input, feedback, prescription, designation, order, directive, or the like from a user of an apparatus, system, device, component, subsystem, or other object. User directions can be created, sent, and/or received in a variety of forms and/or formats, including, but not limited to, a user action in a user interface, a prescription, a form, a conversation, an electronic mail message, a text message, a gesture by the user, or the like. In the context of an osteotomy procedure, user directions can include a set of default settings or choices or instructions for fabrication of a patient-specific instrument or set of instruments, an online form completed by a user (e.g., surgeon), a set of modifications to an original set of user directions, and the like. |
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"Position" refers to a place or location. (Search "position" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2022. Web. Modified. Accessed 9 Aug. 2022.) Often, a position refers to a place or location of a first object in relation to a place or location of another object. One object can be positioned on, in, or relative to a second object. In addition, a position can refer to a place or location of a first object in relation to a place or location of another object in a virtual environment. For example, a model of one object can be positioned relative to a model of another object in a virtual environment such as a modeling software program. |
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"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. (Search "contour" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Modified. Accessed 13 June 2023.) |
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As used herein, a “stop” refers to an apparatus, instrument, structure, member, device, component, system, or assembly structured, organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to prevent, limit, impede, stop, or restrict motion or movement and/or operation of the another object, member, structure, component, part, apparatus, system, or assembly. In one embodiment, a stop may be used to manage and/or control a cutting tool. |
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As used herein, a "fastener", "fixation device", or "fastener system" refers to any structure configured, designed, or engineered to join two structures. Fasteners may be made of a variety of materials including metal, plastic, composite materials, metal alloys, plastic composites, and the like. Examples of fasteners include, but are not limited to screws, rivets, bolts, nails, snaps, hook and loop, set screws, bone screws, nuts, posts, pins, thumb screws, and the like. Other examples of fasteners include, but are not limited to wires, Kirschner wires (K-wire), anchors, bone anchors, plates, bone plates, intramedullary nails or rods or pins, implants, sutures, soft sutures, soft anchors, tethers, interbody cages, fusion cages, and the like. |
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In certain embodiments, the term fastener may refer to a fastener system that includes two or more structures configured to combine to serve as a fastener. An example of a fastener system is a rod or shaft having external threads and an opening or bore within another structure having corresponding internal threads configured to engage the external threads of the rod or shaft. |
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In certain embodiments, the term fastener may be used with an adjective that identifies an object or structure that the fastener may be particularly configured, designed, or engineered to engage, connect to, join, contact, or couple together with one or more other structures of the same or different types. For example, a "bone fastener" may refer to an apparatus for joining or connecting one or more bones, one or more bone portions, soft tissue and a bone or bone portion, hard tissue and a bone or bone portion, an apparatus and a bone or portion of bone, or the like. |
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In certain embodiments, a fastener may be a temporary fastener. A temporary fastener is configured to engage and serve a fastening function for a relatively short period of time. Typically, a temporary fastener is configured to be used until another procedure or operation is completed and/or until a particular event. In certain embodiments, a user may remove or disengage a temporary fastener. Alternatively, or in addition, another structure, event, or machine may cause the temporary fastener to become disengaged. |
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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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"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 any fastener. |
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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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