lag screw in English

noun
1
a heavy wood screw with a square or hexagonal head.
The wooden mailbox pictured at right, purchased at a Bay Area nursery, is mounted atop a 6-foot-tall 4-by - 4 redwood post and secured with a 3-inch-long lag screw .
verb
1
fasten with a lag screw.
The lag-screwed connection failed at less than 200 pounds when the lags pulled out of the band joist.

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1. A lag screw extends through the first transverse passage of the intramedullary nail.

2. Cranial cutting out of the lag screw was only seen during postoperative mobilization.

3. The use of an additional lag screw produced a greater and significant (p<0,01) improvement.

4. Experimental study on treatment of acetabular anterior column fractures: Applyment of a minimally invasive percutaneous lag screw guide apparatus