Skeletal Traction

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ST
Pronunciation
/ˈskɛlətəl ˈtrækʃən/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. Objective To study the effect comparison between skeletal traction and operative treatment in acetabular comminuted fracture.
  2. Objective To sum up a new surgical method to treat knee ankylosis with skeletal traction following arthrolysis.
  3. Analysis of stress on craniofacial skeleton sutures under protraction with three-dimensional finite element method skeletal traction through olecranon of ulna
  4. Skeletal traction of trans-olecranon of ulna on abducent position for the treatment of severe swelling supracondylar fracture of humerus
  5. The authors concluded that, unless a patient is already undergoing general anesthesia, there is no significant advantage of external fixation as compared with skeletal traction.

Other meanings of ST