Essential knee terminology
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- UKR search for term
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UKR is an abbreviation of 'unicompartmental knee replacement'.
- Ultrasound search for term
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Ultrasound consists of very high frequency sound waves.
- Umbilical stem cells search for term
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Umbilical stem cells are primitive cells within the blood of the infant's umbilical cord that are capable of differentiating into many different types of cells.
- Unhappy triad search for term
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The unhappy triad (of O'Donoghue) is the name given to a combination injury of a meniscal tear, medial collateral ligament tear and anterior cruciate ligament tear of the knee.
Page updated June 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor) - Unicompartmental search for term
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Unicompartmental means relating to one of the three compartments of the knee.
- Unicompartmental arthritis search for term
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Unicompartmental arthritis is joint destruction affecting only the one side of a knee, very often the medial (or inner) side.
- Unicompartmental arthroplasty search for term
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Unicompartmental arthroplasty is a replacement of the joint in only one of the three knee compartments.
- Unicompartmental knee replacement search for term
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A unicompartmental knee replacement is a surgical procedure where the surgeon just replaces one part of an arthritic joint.
- Unispacer search for term
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A unispacer is a small metallic wedge which is sometimes used in knee surgery to correct the deformity of a meniscectomy (removal of the meniscus) and improve the consequent imbalance of forces after meniscectomy.
- Unloader search for term
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An 'unloader' is a device - like a brace - which changes the forces going through the knee in order to protect a damaged side.
- Unloader brace search for term
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An unloader brace is a knee brace that subtly alters the alignment of the knee as weight is taken to reduce the forces going through a vulnerable part of the knee.
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