kyphoplasty
noun
                                                                                                                            
                                                            ky·pho·plas·ty
                    
                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                  ˈkī-fō-ˌplas-tē  
                                                      
                                                          
            
            
               plural kyphoplasties            
        
    
                                
              
          
                                                      : a medical procedure that is similar to vertebroplasty in the use of acrylic cement to stabilize and reduce pain associated with a vertebral compression fracture but that additionally seeks to restore vertebral height and lessen spinal deformity by injecting the cement into a cavity created (as by a mechanical device or by insertion and inflation of a special balloon) in the fractured bone                                      
                
                    
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