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the manipulative reduction of a fracture or dislocation without incision.Medical dictionary. 2011.
closed reduction — noun medicine : the reduction of a displaced part (as a fractured bone) by manipulation without incision … Useful english dictionary
Reduction (orthopedic surgery) — Intervention ICD 9 CM 79 Reduction is a medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment. When a bone fractures, the fragments lose their alignment in the form of displacement or an … Wikipedia
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reduction — 1. The restoration, by surgical or manipulative procedures, of a part to its normal anatomic relation. SYN: repositioning (2). 2. In chemistry, a reaction involving a gain of one or more electrons by a substance, such as when iron … Medical dictionary
open reduction — n realignment of a fractured bone after incision into the fracture site compare CLOSED REDUCTION * * * reduction of a fracture or dislocation after incision into the site … Medical dictionary
Many-one reduction — In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a many one reduction is a reduction which converts instances of one decision problem into instances of a second decision problem. Reductions are thus used to measure the relative… … Wikipedia
Nonlinear dimensionality reduction — High dimensional data, meaning data that requires more than two or three dimensions to represent, can be difficult to interpret. One approach to simplification is to assume that the data of interest lies on an embedded non linear manifold within… … Wikipedia
