See Also: Internal fixation(medicine)
Fixation, internal(health)
fracture fixation, internal(medicine)
Natura(finance)
OLD NATURA BREVIUM(law)
natura naturata(dictionary)
natura naturans(dictionary)
in rerum natura(dictionary)
IN RERUM NATURA(law)
Fixation(finance)

natura naturans (iou) and Fixation, internal (health)


natura naturans (iou)



natura naturans noun phr. E19.
[from Latin natura (see Nature noun) + medieval Latin naturans (pres. pple) creating, from naturare: see Nature verb.]
Philosophy. Nature as creative; the essential creative power or act. Cf. NATURA NATURATA.

Fixation, internal (health)


A surgical procedure that stabilizes and joins the ends of fractured (broken) bones by mechanical devices such as metal plates, pins, rods, wires or screws. Internal fixation is as opposed to external fixation of a fracture by a splint or cast.