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n. (plaster cast English)
Usage examples of "plaster casts".
He has to estimate brain size by making plaster casts of the insides of braincases.
Both legs were broken and encased in pristine plaster casts, supported by a network of pulleys and slings.
As we got toward the rear of the hangar, I saw the recently developed photos of the crime scene, all of which were pinned to rolling bulletin boards, plus sketch maps and diagrams of the crime scene, a rising stack of laboratory reports, the protocol complete with color photos of the cadaver, which I did not look at, plaster casts of footprints, cellophane bags of evidence, forensic laboratory equipment, and about thirty personnel, male and female.
He was propped up in bed, with his left leg and right arm in heavy plaster casts.
I was sprawled there in a hospital bed and my legs were done up in plaster casts, but they were still mine.
If this series has really stopped, then it will soon be nothing but past history and we won't have anything to show for it but a couple of plaster casts, a few contradictory stories told by some not too bright mortuary workers and gravediggers -- and what kind of investigation can we conduct with that?
It only looked that way because it was a group of plaster casts that looked as though they were made out of the gray ash themselves.
A dim light filtered down from a row of dirty skylights, illuminating shelves filled with plaster casts of aboriginal faces.
They brushed his bandages often with a whiskbroom and scrubbed the plaster casts on his arms, legs, shoulders, chest and pelvis with soapy water.
The methods of taking plaster casts can, after all, be checked for their accuracy, using modern animals.
I passed the time browsing in the windows of the many tourist shops that stand along it, reflecting on what a lot of things the Scots have given the world - kilts, bagpipes, tam-o'-shanters, tins of oatcakes, bright yellow jumpers with big diamond patterns of the sort favoured by Ronnie Corbett, plaster casts of Greyfriars Bobby looking soulful, sacks of haggis - and how little anyone but a Scot would want them.
One short, curly-headed man sits in a wheelchair, his legs in plaster casts, jutting toward the cameraman.