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Broken-bone stabilizer
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splint
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "overlapping plate or strip in armor" (made of metal splints), probably from Middle Low German splinte , splente "thin piece of iron," related to Middle Dutch splinte "splint," probably literally "thin piece cut off," and from a Germanic offshoot ...
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A splint is a simple piece of equipment used in scientific laboratories . Splints are typically long, thin strips of wood, about 6 inches (150 mm) long and ΒΌ inch (6 mm) wide, and are consumable but inexpensive. They are typically used for tasks such as ...
Usage examples of splint.
He was 629 back in four days, very bitterly, in working splints and eventually he ended up in Number Two where he and Prew became quite friendly.
Callexon still clung to the rear board, bow in hand, his splinted leg apparently straight.
He still clutched me with his injured hand, his splinted fingers held stiffly.
Aside from the battered face and splinted fingers, both of which looked vile, he was meticulous about his grooming.
Sionan had to help me get it over my head, but as she tried to draw it over my splinted arm, I heard a rip as the well-worn fabric gave way.
After that, all I had to do was spend approximately twenty minutes trying to get my fingers splinted and retaped.
She opened her eyes without wincing at the light, took the soap herself and began getting herself as clean as she could without wetting her splinted arm.
When the broken forearm was a few millimeters longer than the other, he shut off the heat and the thermoplastic splint automatically set and snugged into the cushioning.
Shaking her head, Rupoti Apa peered at the limp body, noting the splinted arm, the many scratches and bruises, and a skin wrinkled from long immersion.
Rupoti Apa peered at the limp body, noting the splinted arm, the many scratches and bruises, and a skin wrinkled from long immersion.
A greenstick fracture of the ulna was visible but the injury was so well healed that the splint and bandage were superfluous.
Aragh was limping along on three legs, grumpily assuring Danielle he would lie down, and stay lying down, in a moment so that she could set and splint the broken leg.
He had managed to splint his leg, after a fashion: five laths of cherry oak wood that stretched from his ankle to his pelvis, lashed into place by ropy vines.
He cut through the vines holding his splint together, and used one of the laths to scull away from the bank and back into the main current It took a while, with the snowlilies resisting him, but when he was back in the middle of the river the boat began to move noticeably swifter.
No two wheels on any wagon were in true, and few even leaned in the same direction, and a number of their spokes wore splints tied on with rawhide thongs.