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Weight-Bearing

"Weight-Bearing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The physical state of supporting an applied load. This often refers to the weight-bearing bones or joints that support the body's weight, especially those in the spine, hip, knee, and foot.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Weight-Bearing" by people in this website by year, and whether "Weight-Bearing" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 21 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2008 and 2009
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