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reconstruction /re·con·struc·tion/ (-kon-struk´shun)
1. the reassembling or re-forming of something from constituent parts.
2. surgical restoration of function of a body part.

reconstruction [re″kon-struk´shun]
1. the reassembling or re-forming of something from constituent parts.
2. surgical restoration of function of a body part, such as with a bypass or plastic surgery.
aortic reconstruction restoration of function to a damaged aorta, as by bypass or aortoplasty.

reconstruction
to reassemble or re-form from constituent parts, such as the mathematical process by which an image is assembled from a series of projections in computed tomography.


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The idea that boardinghouses helped to resolve the contradictions in the rhetoric of the home during this period is a compelling one, as is Gamber's assertion that boardinghouses had more detractors in the postbellum period than they did earlier because the ideal of the single family home had grown stronger.
As a result, most mainline churches receded further on the race question, either supporting actively or greeting with indifference the decades of racial injustice under postbellum segregationist order.
Sadly, this mythology captured the religious imagination of many evangelicals in postbellum America.
 
 
 
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