MHa flat piece of wood, metal etc used for keeping a broken bone in position while it mends 〔用以固定断骨的〕夹板
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splint• His arm is weak, and he has to wear a splint on his leg.• There was not one timber which did not have cracks and splints.• Occasionally, children with even mild cases were dressed in casts or splints to immobilizelimbs.• Here they filled me with morphia, gave me ether, and put my arm in a roughsplint.• She imagined a steelsplintinside her giraffeneck, and felt the pain as it appeared inside her unfamiliarflesh.• After five days we removed the packing around the splint.• When you've taken the splints off your leg you can use them to strap your arm up.• She was born with severe back problems and spent much of her childhood wearing splints and fearing she would not walk again.