TRACTION
\tɹˈakʃən], \tɹˈakʃən], \t_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of TRACTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(orthopedics) the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing; "his leg was in traction for several days"
By Princeton University
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(orthopedics) the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing; "his leg was in traction for several days"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.
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Attraction; a drawing toward.
By Oddity Software
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Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.
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Attraction; a drawing toward.
By Noah Webster.
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The pull on a limb or a part thereof. Skin traction (indirect traction) is applied by using a bandage to pull on the skin and fascia where light traction is required. Skeletal traction (direct traction), however, uses pins or wires inserted through bone and is attached to weights, pulleys, and ropes. (From Blauvelt & Nelson, A Manual of Orthopaedic Terminology, 5th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pulling of a part for correcting dislocation.
By William R. Warner
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Act of drawing or state of being drawn: applied, adjectively, to those steam engines which propel themselves on common roads.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
