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  • diagram showing various Hip replacement components.
    Rights: Exactech Published 9 April 2010 Size: 62 KB Referencing Hub media

    In hip replacement operations, the ball and socket joint is surgically removed. Some of the artificial replacement parts such as the femoral head are made of the bioceramic known as alumina.

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