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Biomedical engineering

smallest bone defect in a given site and species that will not heal on its own over the animal's lifetime, used as a test model for bone grafts.

In biomedical engineering, critical size defect refers to smallest bone defect in a given site and species that will not heal on its own over the animal's lifetime, used as a test model for bone grafts. This meaning comes from Schmitz (1986) in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.[1]

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References

Schmitz, J. P., & Hollinger, J. O. (1986). The Critical Size Defect as an Experimental Model for Craniomandibulofacial Nonunions. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 205, 299-308. https://doi.org/10.1097/00003086-198604000-00036

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