(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

Usage examples of traction.

Within hours of each other there had been an admission from a car crash to set up on traction after Orthopaedics had finished patching him up and drips and analgesia to regulate in the sterile side ward for two young burns victims from a house fire.

Benesch points out that in order to correct many malpresentations it is necessary to apply traction and repulsion at the same time, and to do that with one hand in a straining cow is impossible.

It was an imposing image to be left with, and put into the context of motorless transport and construction that was based on human brawn and animal traction, impressive.

If there is a grass surface at the edge of the road be prepared to quickly correct any oversteer that might follow and be ready to ease back on the throttle a little if your tires lose traction.

Cloak thaumaturge reached past his ear and touched the troll with a sp that caused all of its skeletal muscles to lock into maximum cc traction.

For you see, I am still strapped to this bed in a traction cast, the sky over Baguio is still a sexual blue, the grass sensual green, Abigail Light lovely, lovely, and Doctor Gallard concerned.

They were bulldoggers, the boots favored by rodeo topers because the heels angled forward to give better traction when taking down a roped calf.

It hurries you along through frothing sea and pungent powder smoke and the grim ordeal of Dartmoor Prison with no respite in its traction.

Brim nodded to Barbousse, the traction system roared, and the fieldpiece lumbered ahead.

An instant, after he cleared the hull, the traction engine roared and the fieldpiece lumbered off after the others toward the protection of the low hills that formed the lower boundary of the city.

The cliff had been cut down to form an evenly sloping stone ramp and then roughened by transverse grooves, a fingerbreadth apart, to provide traction for the feet of men and animals.

On their dark, mottled bodies were a series of small leglike appendages, which would serve to give them traction on the ground and a better grip on their victims.

Unlike northerners, who learn to drive on ice, Miamians have no genetic familiarity with surface traction.

But with a power plant no bigger than six cubic inches, that car, carrying enough weight to give it traction, outpulled an army tank!

In the dispensary, Ben Martin was stretched out on a hospital bunk with a traction brace around his neck and a copper-haired medical-surgical patrolwoman fussing over him.