Definitions for "Splint "
A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
A splint bone.
A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
A rigid appliance used to connect and mutually support teeth or bones. A removable form is often used to temporarily relieve occlusal interferences in functional disorders of the temporomandibular joint and related musculature.
a clear appliance that fits over your upper or lower teeth
a customized bite appliance that is worn to prevent your teeth from clenching
Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security vulnerabilities and coding mistakes. With minimal effort, it can be used as a better lint. If additional effort is invested adding annotations to programs, it can perform stronger checking than can be done by any standard lint. Splint is the successor to LCLint.
Splint, short for Secure Programming Lint, is a programming tool for statically checking C programs for security vulnerabilities and coding mistakes. Formerly called LCLint, it is a modern version of the Unix lint tool.
One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
Light arm defenses used in the 15th and 16th Centuries, gutter-shaped and intended to protect only the outside of the arm, they were often found on cheap armours intended for infantry use and on certain types of German armour. See also Almain rivet.
Fifteenth and sixteenth-century gutter-shaped plates protecting only the outside of the arm, usually found on munition armor
Metal or plaster brace to position a body part.
a long, narrow slab of plaster or fiberglass applied with elastic wrap or tape
flexible strip used for weaving and bracing.
a custom designed and fitted plastic mouthpiece
a hard plastic thing you strap to the hand
a piece of plastic that has been molded to fit an area of the child's body to keep that area in a certain position.
a blemish (like wire cut or scar of some sort) not an unsoundness (lameness or sore) and should not be a major deduction in halter classes
Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
coarse grey coal, adapted for steam-engines.
A piece split off; a splinter.
To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
a device used for holding a part of the body stable and motionless to prevent pain and further injury
a device used to keep a body part in a fixed position
An apparatus that can be applied to various body parts of a rider due to the parting of the ways of a horse and his passenger.
a device that prevents a joint from bending
a hard bandage that prevents a joint from moving while it heals