Redressment has the following meanings in the field of medicine:

1. An old term that is rarely used meaning to correct a deformity or to put a part straight.

2. To dress a wound again. Redressment comes from the Latin word “re” meaning “again,” and the Middle English word “dressen” meaning “to make straight.” Put the words together and you get “to make straight again.”

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