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Orthopedic surgery and Percivall Pott

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Difference between Orthopedic surgery and Percivall Pott

Orthopedic surgery vs. Percivall Pott

Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics, also spelled orthopaedic, is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Percivall Pott (6 January 1714 in London – 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen.

Similarities between Orthopedic surgery and Percivall Pott

Orthopedic surgery and Percivall Pott have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Pott disease, Surgery, Tibia, Tuberculosis, Vertebral column.

Pott disease

Pott disease or Pott's disease is a form of tuberculosis that occurs outside the lungs whereby disease is seen in the vertebrae.

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Surgery

Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.

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Tibia

The tibia (plural tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia), and it connects the knee with the ankle bones.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Vertebral column

The vertebral column, also known as the backbone or spine, is part of the axial skeleton.

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Orthopedic surgery and Percivall Pott Comparison

Orthopedic surgery has 119 relations, while Percivall Pott has 42. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 3.11% = 5 / (119 + 42).

References

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