单词 | in traction |
释义 | > as lemmasin traction e. Medicine. A sustained pull applied to a part of the body to maintain the positions of fractured bones following reduction of the fracture; the state of being subjected to such a pull; so in traction. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > setting bones or dislocations > extension or traction extension1617 counter-extending1874 counter-extension1874 traction1885 1885 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 112 545/1 The high pulleys..were used, as before, for oblique traction from the knee bands. 1939 W. C. Campbell Operative Orthopedics ii. 97 The majority of apparatus for either suspension or traction of the upper extremity is extremely cumbersome. 1962 Lancet 13 Jan. 61/1 The patient had previously been treated by neck traction and by prolonged physiotherapy, without benefit. 1973 ‘D. Shannon’ Spring of Violence (1974) iii. 46 They had one leg in traction. 1981 R. S. H. Browne Basic Facts in Orthopaedics 95 Traction is used to overcome painful muscle spasm. < as lemmas |
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