splint

IPA: spɫˈɪnt

A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
(dentistry) A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
(medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
(military, historical) A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
(mining) Synonym of splent coal
(zootomy) A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
(zootomy, veterinary medicine) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

Examples of "splint" in Sentences

This splint is most commonly recommended when an infant is learning to crawl.
A resting hand splint is recommended to keep your child's hand in an open position.
A thumb spica splint is recommended to allow a child to have a more successful and functional grasp.
A thin splint from their frontal bones projects down and forward, finger-like, among the snout bones.
-- A splint is a bony enlargement situated along the line of articulation between the splint and cannon bones (Fig. 34).
A weightbearing splint is recommended to allow your child to obtain weightbearing positions (i.e. crawling, side sitting).
But on each side of this enlarged toe there are, beneath the skin, rudimentary bones of two other toes -- the so-called splint-bones.
This splint is also commonly recommended for older children who have limited movement in their hands but are working on strengthening shoulder and elbow muscles.
This splint, which is of the same shape as Liston's long splint, but on a small scale, is applied to the medial side of the leg extending from just below the knee to well beyond the sole of the foot.
Other symptoms, however, than the lameness and the presence of the splint, which is its cause, may be looked for in the same connection as those which have been mentioned as pertaining to certain evidences of periostitis, in the increase of the temperature of the part, with swelling and probably pain on pressure.