Knee A to Z

Cartilages (or 'knee cartilages' or 'meniscus cartilages' or 'semi-lunar cartilages') are old-fashioned words for the menisci of the knee.

Cartilage tissue engineering includes those laboratory processes that allow the expansion of cartilage for use in replacing damaged joint cartilage.

Catching in the knee is the sensation of something suddenly obstructing the smooth movement of the joint.

The Caton-Deschamps Index is a measure of the position of the patella relative to the tibia.

Causalgia is an old name for complex regional pain syndrome.

CCI is an abbreviation of Characterised Chondrocyte Implantation.

Cell-based surgery includes a group of modern treatments for tissue damage, where cells are manipulated and supported to grow into a prepared damaged area to heal the problem.

Cellulitis is a severe inflammation of the layers just under the skin in the connective tissue.

A cerclage wire is a wire which is wound during surgery around several broken bony fragments to hold them together until they heal.

Characterised Chondrocyte Implantation (CCI) is a procedure to grow cartilage cells (chondrocytes), seed them onto a collagen membrane, and sew that membrane back onto the knee to cover a cartilage lesion.