splint

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After surgery, a splint will be applied to help your nose maintain its new shape.

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  1. noun A thin piece split off from a larger piece; a splinter.
  2. noun A rigid device used to prevent motion of a joint or of the ends of a fractured bone.
  3. noun A dental appliance put on the teeth to protect them from grinding or from moving out of place.
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  • The decamole leg splint was already inflated and ready to be fastened in place. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • When the surgery is complete, a splint will be applied to help your nose maintain its new shape. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Once the splint is off, they'll have to be taped to your forehead or propped on your cheeks for another six to seven weeks, until your nose is completely healed.
  • After surgery, a splint will be applied to help your nose maintain its new shape. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Another splint should be applied on the inside of the leg, the two firmly bandaged together, and finally the legs tied together Illustration: A Broken Leg If the knee-cap only be fractured, tie the leg on a splint from hip to foot, and keep the limb raised Almost any firm substance which can keep the limb at rest can be used for a splint, but if hard it should be padded. —  Papers on Health
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  1. Middle English, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German splinte.

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  1. = Swedish splinta, splinter; a secondary, nasalized form of split: see split. In sense 2 also dial. splent; from Middle English splenten; from splint, n.
  2. Formerly and still dial. also splent; from Middle English *splinte, splynte, splent, splente (later Anglo-French esplente), a splint, = Dutch splint, a piece of money, = Middle Low German splinte, Low German splinte, splint (later G. splint), a thin piece of iron, = Swedish splint, a kind of spike, a forelock, flat iron peg (cf. sprint, a forelock), = Danish splint, a splinter; from the verb: see splint, v. Cf. splinter.
 

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