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con·struct

(kon'strukt),
1. The combination of a bone graft, metal instrumentation, prosthetic devices, and/or bone cement applied to a specific level of the skeleton in the course of reconstructive or fracture surgery.
2. In psychiatry/psychology, a set of related ideas used to define, understand, and assess a given phenomenon.
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con·struct

(konstrŭkt)
Combination of a bone graft, metal instrumentation, prosthetic devices, and/or bone cement applied to a specific level of the skeleton in the course of reconstructive, dental, or fracture surgery.
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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George Kelly himself ran a traveling psychological service to schools, and later personal construct psychologists have considered the development of children's construing (e.g., Mancuso, 2003; Salmon, 1970) and extended the application of personal construct psychology in educational settings.
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These results provide support for the external validity of previous research, i.e., the same construct was being tapped by separate measures in each study.
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Working with Escherichia coli, his team constructed three elaborate biological circuits that produce a glowing protein only if they receive a chemical signal in certain concentration ranges.
In my storied approach (Brott, 2001), I have used a number of techniques related to life roles in order to co-construct, de-construct, and construct the client's story.
But a huge number of multi-storey buildings were constructed in violation of the by-laws.
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