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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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

Jones survived the strongest hurricane in Jamaican history while he was injured, wearing a homemade splint on his right leg from a fracture he suffered during a biking accident before Melissa hit.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025

Betts visited a hand specialist Monday, where he was fitted with a splint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

‘One time in the middle of a play-off game I had to splint a quarterback’s leg with nothing but tree branches and strapping tape.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

The first responders used soft splints to put pressure on injured extremities and stabilize them, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Eight-year-old Ronnie, from Saffron Walden in Essex, loves watching the England international so much he had an image of the midfielder put on to his leg splints.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022

As part of the operation, I had splints stuck in my nose.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

“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

His bandaged legs - one of them splinted - are badly scarred and withered.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025

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

Urshela’s bat splinted when he grounded into a double play in the second inning.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2021

Her set and splinted arm lay on her stomach, but her right arm lay on top of the coverlet, the fingers curled like a nest.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

Sister Gladys and Dr. van Heerden were splinting the injured Vapostori's leg.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer


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