"osteoclasy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ὀστέον",
        "4": "",
        "5": "bone"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "κλάσις",
        "4": "",
        "5": "breaking"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek κλάσις (klásis, “breaking”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + Ancient Greek κλάσις (klásis, “breaking”)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "osteoclasies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "osteoclasy (plural osteoclasies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884, Gaillard's Medical Journal - Volume 38, page 434",
          "text": "He had performed upwards of twenty osteotomies, and nearly as many osteoclasies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery",
          "text": "We need not here discuss the performance of instrumental osteoclasy, for it has never been received with favour in this country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Abraham Jacobi, Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood, page 100",
          "text": "The tendency to flat-foot acquired through the flabbiness of the ligamentous apparatus during the attempts of the child at locomotion requires straightening and sustaining by a shoe made strong enough to support the ankle; scoliosis, a Sayre's plater-of-Paris or a felt jacket; the rhachitical groove round and above the insertion of the diaphragm, well-directed gumnastics of the chest; inflexible and ugly curvatures of the long bones, either osteoclasy (fracturing of the curved bone while leaving the periosteum intact, and resetting) or osteotomy (straightening the bone after it has undergone a cutting operation).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The surgical fracture and resetting of a bone."
      ],
      "id": "en-osteoclasy-en-noun-isrmI7Wf",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "surgical",
          "surgical"
        ],
        [
          "fracture",
          "fracture"
        ],
        [
          "reset",
          "reset"
        ],
        [
          "bone",
          "bone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) The surgical fracture and resetting of a bone."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "osteoclasy"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ὀστέον",
        "4": "",
        "5": "bone"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "κλάσις",
        "4": "",
        "5": "breaking"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek κλάσις (klásis, “breaking”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + Ancient Greek κλάσις (klásis, “breaking”)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "osteoclasies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "osteoclasy (plural osteoclasies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884, Gaillard's Medical Journal - Volume 38, page 434",
          "text": "He had performed upwards of twenty osteotomies, and nearly as many osteoclasies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery",
          "text": "We need not here discuss the performance of instrumental osteoclasy, for it has never been received with favour in this country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Abraham Jacobi, Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood, page 100",
          "text": "The tendency to flat-foot acquired through the flabbiness of the ligamentous apparatus during the attempts of the child at locomotion requires straightening and sustaining by a shoe made strong enough to support the ankle; scoliosis, a Sayre's plater-of-Paris or a felt jacket; the rhachitical groove round and above the insertion of the diaphragm, well-directed gumnastics of the chest; inflexible and ugly curvatures of the long bones, either osteoclasy (fracturing of the curved bone while leaving the periosteum intact, and resetting) or osteotomy (straightening the bone after it has undergone a cutting operation).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The surgical fracture and resetting of a bone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "surgical",
          "surgical"
        ],
        [
          "fracture",
          "fracture"
        ],
        [
          "reset",
          "reset"
        ],
        [
          "bone",
          "bone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) The surgical fracture and resetting of a bone."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "osteoclasy"
}