A surgical splint.

Surgery. A thin piece of wood or other more or less rigid material used to hold a fractured or dislocated bone in position during the process of…

A splint.

A surgical splint. Obsolete or dialect.

Surgery. A cushioned splint, or a pad or cushion for a splint, made from cloth and stuffed with packing material (originally the leaves of rushes…

Nautical. ‘A long piece of hard wood, convex on one side and concave on the other’ (Adm. Smyth), used to strengthen a mast or yard; a fish-piece.

a bandage stiffened with starch, used as a splint or cast (also attributive); cf. plaster bandage n. (b) at plaster, n. compounds 2.

a splint made from a starch bandage.

a splint shaped somewhat like a pistol, used esp. in fractures of the lower radius.

Surgery. Designating an apparatus consisting of a beam or pole, or framework of these, to which pulleys and weights are attached to suspend a…

a splint moulded to the shape of the limb.