Austin-Moore Self-Locking Hip Prosthesis
date: label: Date made
content: About 1973
notes: label: Description
content: The Austin Moore self-locking hip prosthesis was developed by Austin Talley Moore (1899-1963), an orthopedic surgeon in Columbia, S.C. The first example was implanted in 1940.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Howmedica Incorporated
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.306404.03
label: accession number
content: 306404
label: catalog number
content: 306404.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hip Prosthesis
label: Object Name
content: hip joint, artificial
label: Object Name
content: prosthesis
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.02 cm x 3.6 cm x 6 cm; 7 7/8 in x 1 7/16 in x 2 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 19.685 cm x 6.6675 cm