MANIPULATION

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1893 · p. 30

n. Ma'n-isp-u'l-a's huSn. Fr., m. Ger., M. A handling; any manual procedure, whether for a diagnostic, experimental, or therapeutic purpose. Conjoined m. The simultaneous m. of two different parts of a thing for effecting a given purpose (e. g., of the two poles of the foetus in the Gyration of version). [s. 708]