SPLINT
\splˈɪnt], \splˈɪnt], \s_p_l_ˈɪ_n_t]\
Definitions of SPLINT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a thin sliver of wood; "he lit the fire with a burning splint"
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support with a splint; "splint a broken finger"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A piece split off; a splinter.
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A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
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A splint bone.
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A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
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One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
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Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
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To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
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To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
By Oddity Software
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Rigid or flexible appliances used to maintain in position a displaced or movable part or to keep in place and protect an injured part. (Dorland, 28th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A small piece split off; a splinter; a thin piece of wood to keep a broken bone, etc., in position; a thin strip of wood for weaving baskets, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. An apparatus for preventing movement of a joint or between the ends of a broken bone. 2. The splint-bone, or fibula. 3. An exostosis between one of the small bones and the shank, or on any of the three bones of the foreleg, of the horse; it is apt to cause lameness, especially in the trot.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A small piece of wood split off: (med.) a thin piece of wood, etc., for confining a broken or injured limb: a hard excrescence on the shankbone of a horse.
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To confine with splints.
By Daniel Lyons
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To confine with splints.
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A piece of wood split off; a thin piece of wood, used to hold or confine a broken bone when set, or to keep any part in a fixed position; a hard excrescence growing on the shank-bones of horses.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To confine with splints, as a fractured limb.
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A thin strip, as of wood, to hold a fractured limb in place; any thin flat piece; splinter.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A small piece split off from a larger; in surg., a thin piece of wood used to confine in its proper position a broken bone after being set; a hard excrescence growing on the shank-bone of a horse; a hard laminated coal, intermediate between cannel and common pit coal.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A flexible and resisting lamina of wood, used in the treatment of fractures, to keep the fragments in apposition, and prevent their displacement. Splints are made of iron, wood, bark of trees, leather, gutta pereha, pasteboard, &c. They are generally padded, and are fixed by a roller or by tapes, according to circumstances.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Any apparatus composed of firm and hard material to be applied to an injured or diseased part to prevent motion or displacement. Wood, tin, wire, steel, papier-mache, plaster of Paris, hard rubber, and leather are all used as materials from which to construct splints. [Old Eng.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
