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1. To raise or elevate.
2. A material used to equalize the length of a shortened side of the body with the unshortened, normal, side, as on a shoe.
SYN: SEE: wedge (3)
3. A device that carries or weighs a patient.

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1. To raise or elevate.
2. A material used to equalize the length of a shortened side of the body with the unshortened, normal, side, as on a shoe.
SYN: SEE: wedge (3)
3. A device that carries or weighs a patient.

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