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What does splint mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word splint? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
  2. (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
  3. A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
  4. A segment of armor.
  5. A bone found on either side of the horse's cannon bone; second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
  6. A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
  7. splent coal
Verb
  1. (transitive) To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
  2. To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
  3. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
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