An elderly patient fractured her hip and needs a hip replacement. She will be scheduled for an:
A) arthroscopy
B) arthrodesis
C) arthrotomy
D) arthroplasty
D
Explanation: We can construct the term with the information that the hip is a joint, arthr/o, and a surgical repair is the suffix -plasty. They are replacing the hip to repair the fracture.
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