Surgical treatment of a fractured or dislocated bone. Also (as a count noun): a fracture or dislocation. Now historical and rare.

Surgery. The action of reducing a fracture, hernia, dislocated part, etc. (reduce, v. 8); an instance of this.

The treatment of fractured and dislocated bones and various other musculoskeletal complaints, esp. as a branch of traditional medicine carried out by…

Surgery. Restoration of a part of the body to its normal position, as a surgical procedure; an instance of this.

spec. in Surgery. The fitting together or adjustment of the ends of a fractured bone, setting; the replacement of a dislocated bone.

Surgery. = reposition, n. 1b. Cf. reposit, v. 2.

Medicine. The immobilization and holding in place of a limb or joint or the parts of a fractured bone; the holding in place of a displaced or…