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Merriam Webster's
noun (plural -trums; also sequestra) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, legal sequestration, from sequester Date: 1831 a fragment of dead bone detached from adjoining sound bone
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. (pl. sequestra) a piece of dead bone or other tissue detached from the surrounding parts. Derivatives: sequestral adj. sequestrotomy n. (pl. -ies). Etymology: mod.L, neut. of L sequester standing apart
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Sequestrum Se*ques"trum, n.; pl. Sequestra. [NL. See Sequester.] (Med.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
