EXTENSION

n. E2x-te2n's hu3n. Gr., ixTturit. Lat., extensio (from extend ere, to stretch out). Fr., e. Ger., Ausdehnung. It., est ens i one. Sp., extension. A straightening (as of the limbs). 2. A stretching (as of a limb for reducing a fracture or dislocation). See E. APPARATUS. 3. In the Arthropod a, a bending dorsad. [C, 3; L, 322.] Counter-e. See the major list. Elastic e. E. (2d def.) by means of a weight and pulle}- or by the interposition of a piece of elastic material in some other form of e. apparatus. E. of the foetal head. A backward inclination of the head, by which the chin is thrown away from the sternum. Kontrae' (Ger.). See COUNTER-EXTENSION. [s. 789]