valgize
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[edit]valgize (third-person singular simple present valgizes, present participle valgizing, simple past and past participle valgized)
- (transitive, medicine) To produce a lateral angulation of the distal segment of a bone or joint.
- Coordinate term: varize
- 2020 February, Thibaut Leemrijse, Bernhard Devos Bevernage, “Surgical treatment of iatrogenic hallux varus”, in Orthopaedics & Traumatology: Surgery & Research, volume 106, number 1 (Supplement), , page 7:
- As the insertion is almost 2 cm distally and dorsally from the center of rotation of the metatarsophalangeal joint, tensioning by tenodesis effect tends to induce supination of the hallux and to valgize the joint [25].