Partial knee replacement is a surgical treatment option that replaces (or resurfaces) only the damaged portion of the knee while conserving knee ligaments and unaffected cartilage. âPatients with unicompartmental knee arthritis have cartilage degeneration in only one section or compartment of the knee.
Your appendix is on the right side of your abdomen. the pain usually is on the right side below your naval. If you are suffering an appendicitis you will also have nausea and fever and your white blood cell count will be high. If you think you are having an attack of appendicitis, see your doctor as soon as you can.
The diameter of the appendix is usually between 7 and 8 mm. Given the appendixâs propensity to cause death by infection, and general good health of people who have had their appendix removed or who have a congenital absence of an appendix, the appendix is traditionally thought to have no function in the human body.