duplication

18:05 Jan 12, 2019
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Medical - Medical (general) / surgery
English term or phrase: duplication
Hello, I need help (from a medical professional, preferably) checking the meaning of the word "duplication" in the following phrase:

A careful reconstruction of the joint capsule is performed using absorbable suture material.
Duplication can be used if needed.

The text is about arthroplastic implants for small joints (hand, feet). The phrase itself apparently concerns the closing of an intercarpal joint resection.
Aleksandar Protić
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4a doubling; in genetics, the presence of an extra segment of chromosome
Gulrukhsor Abdugafurova
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José Patrício

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a doubling; in genetics, the presence of an extra segment of chromosome


Explanation:
Duplication: Part of a chromosome in duplicate, a particular kind of mutation (change) involving the production of one or more copies of any piece of DNA, including a gene or even an entire chromosome.

Duplications typically arise from an event termed unequal crossing-over (a kind of recombination) that occurs between misaligned homologous chromosomes during meiosis (germ cell formation). The chance of this event happening is a function of the degree of sharing of repetitive elements between two chromosomes. The recombination products of such an event are a duplication at the site of the exchange and a reciprocal deletion. A remarkable class of duplications in which the duplicated region has popped up far away from home base has also been discovered.

Duplications have been important in the evolution of the human genome (and the evolution of the genomes of many other organisms).

A duplication is the opposite of a deletion.


    Reference: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31...
Gulrukhsor Abdugafurova
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Reference information:
artificial knee implants that nearly duplicate the way the human knee moves - https://www.healthline.com/health/total-knee-replacement-sur...
ellipsoid wrist prosthesis design that could nearly duplicate natural wrist motion was invented. - https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/rg.235035059
The device is adjustable and can duplicate a range of lateral offsets, leglengths and head positions - https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/rg.235035059
failed to duplicate the normal center of motion - http://www.lipteh.com/Study-Notes/Hands/Rheumatoid hand/fing...

José Patrício
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neutral  Daryo: THAT kind of "duplication" ("duplication" of functionality) doesn't make sense for this ST. In this ST it's some kind of procedure.
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