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Definition of Contractures
1. contracture [n] - See also: contracture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contractures
Literary usage of Contractures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Of course it is not to be expected that early contractures or clonic spasms could
appear ... It seems probable that if early contractures or spasms appear, ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"contractures in Organic Nervous Diseases.—The results were based upon a study of
about 500 cases of organic nervous disease. Of this number there were 184 ..."
3. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"contractures and Paralyses.—A contracture is a persistent tonic and involuntary
... Functional paralyses and contractures—that is to say, those that have no ..."
4. Physical diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"In hysteria similar contractures occur. Contrac- tures have in themselves little
or no diagnostic value, but indicate a late and stubborn stage of whatever ..."
5. Lectures on the Diseases of the Spinal Cord by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"Myopathic contractures. Contracture of Hemiplegia is a state of Muscular ...
How contractures Terminate. GENTLEMEN : I reproduced, in terminating my last ..."
6. Technique of Operations on the Bones, Joints, Muscles and Tendons by Robert Soutter (1917)
"Manipulation of the Shoulder Joint to Relieve contractures.— It is important not
to manipulate a joint where there is disease, or severe injury. ..."
7. The Orthopedic treatment of gunshot injuries by Leo Mayer (1918)
"CHAPTER VII contractures Were the conditions for treatment of gunshot injuries
ideal, and were all surgeons experienced in this type of work, contractures ..."
8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Sc., 1918, clvi, 205) has found that spastic contractures of the lower colon and
rectum of varying intensity play an important part in the etiology of many ..."
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