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Meniscus vs Meniscectomy - What's the difference?

meniscus | meniscectomy |

As nouns the difference between meniscus and meniscectomy

is that meniscus is a crescent moon, or an object shaped like it while meniscectomy is removal of the meniscus (cartilage) of a joint (especially of the knee.

meniscus

English

(wikipedia meniscus)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it.
  • *1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 19:
  • *:He opened wide both casements; they gave on a parking place four floors below; the thin meniscus overhead was too wan to illumine the roofs of the houses descending toward the invisible lake [...].
  • (optics) A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section.
  • The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid.
  • (anatomy) Either of two parts of the human knee that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion.

    • See also

    *lunette

    meniscectomy

    English

    Noun

    (meniscectomies)
  • (surgery) Removal of the meniscus (cartilage) of a joint (especially of the knee)