traction
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈtrækʃən/
- Specialized
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tracción
- Is Julio out of traction yet?
- lumbar traction
- traction force
- traction therapy
What is this cervical neck traction device?
- What is this cervical neck traction device?
- Well, again, if you follow our work, we do do deloading of the spine through traction.
- I got had the I want a pin, but it was like a traction weights on my leg to keep my leg separated.
Examples
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I ended up in traction.
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After the accident, he was placed in traction to help heal his broken leg.
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Yeah, well, I was in traction for two months.
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That kid spent 10 months in traction and another year learning to walk again.
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We're gonna have to put him in temporary traction ourselves.
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I was in the hospital three days, in traction.
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Kid, I'm gonna put you in traction.
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We stabilized his left arm and put his left leg in traction.
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Six months in traction, that's all, tops.
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You're going to end up in traction if you don't take my advice.
Compounds
- Archaic
A steam-powered vehicle with wheels that pulls heavy loads on farms and roads
Surface Forms
Morphology
traction = tract + ion
This sense is the literal 'pulling' action corresponding to the combining form tract + -ion; the meaning is a direct physical sense that learners can understand from related words and contexts even though 'tract' is not a productive standalone modern verb.
Etymology
Traction comes from the Latin trahere, which means 'to pull'. In medicine, traction is a steady 'pull' on a limb to hold or move a bone into place, so imagine a rope gently pulling a leg to remember it.