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splint

[splint] / splɪnt /
NOUN
support
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NOUN
sliver
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She has to wear a pressure garment for 23 hours a day and sleeps in a splint.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Vanderbilt had his finger taped and had a splint on the finger after the game.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

He wanted to keep playing, though, so trainers applied a splint that was essentially a popsicle stick.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2025

In an interview for Saga magazine, he revealed he was still recovering from the experience, with his neck in a brace and right hand in a splint.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2024

Dr. Mudd says he’s going to splint the leg.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

The most recent work, Berenice Olmedo’s “Amalia,” a motorized sculpture of a leg made from medical prostheses, splints and braces, was created in 2021, a comment on difficulties faced by the disabled.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 2026

The centre was set up around 60 years ago by a Belgian Catholic association and has a workshop for producing prostheses, splints and braces.

From Barron's Dec. 21, 2025

Plastic spoons serve as splints for broken fingers, children are examined in makeshift tents and cough drops are handed out by the hundreds.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2023

Kansas guard Johnny Furphy played with no limitations after dealing with shin splints during the preseason.

From Seattle Times Nov. 6, 2023

The cotton sweater was something I had packed as a formality, as you might pack antisnake bite medicine or splints.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

“They were able to put his finger back together and it’s splinted and he’s day-to-day,” Redick said Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

What he did recall was having his arm splinted in a comfortable position and making plans to have surgery the next day at a hospital in the Chicagoland area unaffiliated with Froedtert South.

From Salon Oct. 26, 2022

Four hours later, we were back from the emergency room, with three new stickers, two X-rays, one red Popsicle and a newly splinted broken leg.

From Washington Post Sep. 23, 2022

Some medical experts have previously suggested Saffie's legs should have been splinted.

From BBC Nov. 30, 2021

Nailer glanced at her hand, saw that her broken fingers were splinted on a bit of driftwood.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

It was a very interesting nine-month tour of duty in military service, tactical training, and of course the medical aspect of evaluating injuries, administering morphine, splinting and stopping bleeding.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2024

Cross-examining Dr Evans, Mr Myers said: "If you really thought that splinting the diaphragm was a cause of death you would have stated that before today, wouldn't you?"

From BBC Nov. 1, 2022

When the records arrived, they showed the splinting that Shah remembered but not the treatment that was driving up his bill.

From Salon Oct. 26, 2022

A trauma nurse and a medical doctor were among the group of hikers and Justa said they helped tremendously with splinting, wrapping injuries and taking her vitals, for which he’s grateful.

From Washington Times Sep. 24, 2016

Mudd finishes splinting the leg, then leaves Booth alone in an upstairs room to rest.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly




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