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frame

 [frām]
a rigid supporting structure or a structure for immobilizing a part.
Balkan frame an apparatus for continuous extension in treatment of fractures of the femur, consisting of an overhead bar, with pulleys attached, by which the leg is supported in a sling.
Bradford frame a rectangular structure of gas pipe across which are stretched two strips of canvas, once used as a bed frame for patients with fractures or disease of the hip or spine.
quadriplegic standing frame a device for supporting in the upright position a patient whose four limbs are paralyzed.
Stryker frame see stryker frame.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

frame

(frām),
A structure made of parts fitted together.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

frame

(frām)
A supporting or integrating structure made of parts fitted together.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

frame

A structure in metal, plastic, tortoiseshell, wood, leather, etc. for enclosing or supporting ophthalmic lenses but usually considered without the lenses. See spectacles.
Millodot: Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science, 7th edition. © 2009 Butterworth-Heinemann

frame

(frām)
A supporting or integrating structure made of parts fitted together.
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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Analyzing framing processes over time allows one a more nuanced view of both the complex ways in which media framing of any given issue evolves and the various factors that explain such evolution.
In essence, the framing effect reflects a rational decision-making bias.
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While a picture frame does ask us to frame our interpretations in the binary fashion that Schapiro and Uspensky indicate, the illocutionary function of paratexts has more in common with Erving Goffman's sociological discussion of frames as mental schemas or with Werner Wolf's account of frames in Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media.
Nongovernmental organizations, like FAIR, established in 1986 to work with activists and journalists to invigorate the First Amendment, provide counterpoints to the mainstream media's framing of events in Iraq.
Even though the specific programs and policy proposal at the core of the debate shift every few years, the central themes of what has come to be know as the generational equity debate are likely to continue to influence the framing of old-age policy issues long into the future.
Since anthropologist-psychologist Gregory Bateson and sociologist Erving Goffman introduced the concept of framing in the early 1970s it has been widely adopted and adapted by scholars in many disciplines, including communication, and entered the lexicon of public relations and journalism practitioners.
Acknowledged here is the paradoxical power and plight of the framer, 'framed' by her own act of framing; having spun the web, she has become caught in it.
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