Translation for "volver a encajar" to english
Volver a encajar
verb
  • reset
Translation examples
reset
verb
Mientras Cardona pegaba aullidos y alucinaba con sirenas, Arnaud forcejeaba con pinzas y palancas para volver a encajar el fémur en la cadera, para enderezar la rodilla que miraba hacia abajo, para darle forma humana a esa materia orgánica desgarrada y desplazada.
While Cardona howled and hallucinated about mermaids, Arnaud struggled with pincers and pulleys to reset his femur into the hip socket, to straighten his knee, which looked downward, to give some human form to this organic matter, so torn and disjointed.
De modo que el absceso dentro de su pierna fue creciendo cada vez más y, cuando Nancy y Hattie lograron que el doctor Bostwick examinase aquella queja «imaginaria», se comprobó que Tom necesitaba una nueva intervención, no sólo para extirpar el absceso, sino para volver a encajar la pierna.
And so the abscess within his leg grew and grew, and by the time Nancy and Hattie got Dr. Bostwick to examine this “imaginary” complaint, Tom was found to need a new operation, which would not only remove the abscess but reset his leg.
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