01 n. Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
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Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.(Surg.)
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In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
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a reflexive movement by a motile organism by which it moves or orients itself in relation to some source of stimulation; as, chemotaxis, the motion toward or away from gradients of certain chemical compounds.