Reflection

(re-Jlek' -shun). In optics, the bending or turning bao Reducteur. The India-rubber bag of A. Favrot for replacing a retroverted gravid uterus. It is introduced into the rectum and inflated. ray of light from a surface that neither absorbs, ' mits, nor scatters it. In pathology, the bending back of an organ or part from its normal direction. Reduction (ye-duk' -shun). In surgery, the replacing a dislocated bone, hernia, or other part in its normal position. In chemistry, the operation of extracting a metal from its salt or other combination. R., False, a false forcing of a strangulated hernia through a rent in the neck of the sac and beneath a portion of detached parietal peritoneum. R. en ma e, the reduction of a strangulated hernia in its sac, thus failing to relieve the Reflector reflect ere, to bend back. I. A mirror or speculum by which light is reflected for in diagnostic or operative proce es. 2. A muse the function of which is to turn a part back. R. epiglottidis. See Depre or epiglottidis in Aft Table of. R., Forehead. See Head-minor.