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  • noun Plural form of contracture.

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Examples

  • The fact that they had healed in a deformed mass of callous with contractures that prevented him opening the hand or moving it in any useful way was apparently not remarked upon.

    Raymond J. Learsy: The Hippocratic Oath And Health Care Reform 2009

  • GHATAN: That ` s a machine that ` s moving him passively to prevent contractures.

    CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008 2008

  • In this animation, actually, removing all that scar, removing the contractures that sort of pulled his eyes and his lips all together and getting that out of there, but also to take these tissue expanders and place them along his right cheek and along his neck.

    CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2007 2007

  • She may have contractures in some of the limbs they spared in this operation so something else she will have to deal with and she may need reposition of one of the organs, her kidney she has was her twin's kidney at one point.

    CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2007 2007

  • Sometimes those contractures need to be released surgically and new grafts put in.

    CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2006 2006

  • Swollen, painful joints; muscular atrophy; and joint contractures may make it difficult for us to masturbate or make love in some positions.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • The contractures are not allowing you to put your foot flat down, so you walk on the side of it.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • The contractures are not allowing you to put your foot flat down, so you walk on the side of it.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • The contractures are not allowing you to put your foot flat down, so you walk on the side of it.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • The contractures are not allowing you to put your foot flat down, so you walk on the side of it.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

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