Repositioner

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who, or that which, repositions.

    "Nevertheless osteopaths are coming to regard themselves not so much as thrusters, or even as repositioners, of bones, but as releasers of the patient's own recuperative forces."

Example

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"Nevertheless osteopaths are coming to regard themselves not so much as thrusters, or even as repositioners, of bones, but as releasers of the patient's own recuperative forces."

Etymology

From reposition + -er.

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