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Balkan frame

noun Bal·kan frame \ˈbl-kən-\

Medical Definition of BALKAN FRAME

:  a frame employed in the treatment of fractured bones of the leg or arm that provides overhead weights and pulleys for suspension, traction, and continuous extension of the splinted fractured limb

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