| bone plates | Metal bars with perforations for the insertion of screws, used to immobilise fractured segments. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| polar plates | Condensed platelike bodies at the ends of the spindle during mitosis of certain types of cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pterygoid plates | See: lateral pterygoid plate, medial pterygoid plate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tarsal plates | See: superior tarsus, inferior tarsus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lane's plates | Flattened, narrow, metal plate's of various shapes and sizes, perforated for screws; used to hold the fragments of a fractured bone in apposition. (05 Mar 2000) |