Definizione monolingua

splint

splint (third-person singular simple present splints, present participle splinting, simple past and past participle splinted)

1. To apply a splint.
2. To support ones abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.

splint (plural splints)

1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled off of a larger piece.
2. (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.

   1900 But it so happened that I had a man in the hospital at the time, and going there to see about him the day before the opening of the Inquiry, I saw in the white mens ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Chapter 5.

3. A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
4. A segment of armor.

   1819 The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints , or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ankle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the riders defensive armour. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 1.

5. A bone found on either side of the horses cannon bone.

Definizione dizionario splint

scheggia

stecca

Altri significati:

To apply a splint.

A narrow strip of wood split or peeled off of a larger piece.

A bone found on either side of the horse's cannon bone.

To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.

(medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.

A segment of armor.

A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.

immobilizing device