COAPTATION
\kə͡ʊptˈe͡ɪʃən], \kəʊptˈeɪʃən], \k_əʊ_p_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of COAPTATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
By Thomas Davidson
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The act of adapting the two extremities of a fractured bone to each other; or of restoring a luxated bone to its place. Coaptation must be effected gently. Usually, extension and counter-extension are, in the first place, necessary.
By Robley Dunglison
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[Latin] A fitting together of disunited parts such as the fragments of a bone. C. splints, small, thin splints placed all about a limb at the site of a fracture so as to produce c. of the fragments.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe