0 a piece of wood etc used to keep a broken arm or leg in a fixed position while it heals. -- thanh nẹp
It includes a very wide range of articles—artificial limbs, splints and calipers, invalid carriages, surgical belts, even wigs.
There is a church which is shored up and strutted up in splints like a man with a broken arm.
Interestingly, some patients use the collar as a mark of disability, together with wrist splints and walking sticks and crutches held rather than used when walking.
Complexity arose from the fact that the new tariff did not apply to splints and logs.
The decrease of imports of splints and logs can also be attributed to the progress of timber processing technology, as well as changes in the availability of local timbers.
Standard working splints are available commercially, while specially moulded resting splints can be made by suitably qualified occupational therapists or orthotists.
Inevitably reducing a large volume of extraabdominal viscera into a small abdominal cavity has the effect of splinting the diaphragm.
In addition, the assumption that splints must be white and glossy limited the choice of species.
