What's the difference between bandage and splint?

Bandage


Definition:

  • (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
  • (n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
  • (v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (2) We have found the early placement of a therapeutic bandage contact lens permits extended administration of 5-FU during this period, minimizing discomfort and inflammation as well as enhancing bleb survival.
  • (3) Treating the catheters with an organo-silane preparation, protecting the catheters against dislodgement, and use of a belly bandage to minimize damage to the external parts of the catheter may have prolonged catheter life in this experiment.
  • (4) For each patient we have used a light bandage (x) with stretching to 30 and 50% of its length, and a heavy bandage (x) with stretching of 20 and 40%.
  • (5) Eucerin cream, Gauztex bandages, and DuoDerm pads were used to lubricate and stabilize anesthetic armamentarium.
  • (6) The available material, including bandages, elastic stockings, the technique, indications, complications, and especially allergic skin reactions are discussed.
  • (7) Wright eventually returned, head bandaged, but could not head the ball with any safety and played on the right wing.
  • (8) It is therefore recommended that a dust extraction unit be used when cutting all types of bandage.
  • (9) Although bandaging appeared somewhat less satisfactory with respect to the resulting stability of the ankle, the differences were not statistically significant.
  • (10) The authors described their own suggestions of advantages of the hydrogel bandages in ENT practice.
  • (11) We report on a patient who developed necrotizing contact dermatitis after a single topical application of tincture of benzoin and a pressure bandage following enucleation of an eye.
  • (12) A bare-chested man lay face down on the grass, his head being bandaged by Red Cross medics.
  • (13) All the patients were operated repeatedly at two stages: radical necrosequestrotomy, epidermatoplasty and tendoplasty were performed at stage I and bone autografting with immobilization with an plaster bandage were performed at stage II.
  • (14) Post-operative haemorrhage was controlled by nasal packing with a gauze bandage and this was removed between the 2nd and 4th post-operative day.
  • (15) He declined to say how much he paid for the 1,500-pound(680-kilogram) chunk of art, saying only: “Less than I will sell it for.” Bandaged Heart, an image of a heart-shaped balloon covered in Band-Aids, has a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000.
  • (16) The Esmarch-bandage tourniquet was shown to be capable of producing pressures in excess of 1000 millimeters of mercury immediately beneath the tourniquet.
  • (17) A neuro-ophthalmologic examination, including fluorescein angiography and colour discrimination tests, was made of 15 workers (age range 30--65 years, mean 45.8 years) exposed to n-hexane (range of exposure 5--21 years) during vegetable oil extracting and adhesive bandage manufacturing.
  • (18) In football, it is wounded centre-back Terry Butcher, his bloodied, bandaged head and claret-and-white shirt in an England World Cup qualifier against Sweden in Stockholm in 1989.
  • (19) The bite site was covered with a loose bandage instead of a pressure-immobilisation bandage.
  • (20) Bandaged Heart, which was spray-painted on the side of a Brooklyn warehouse, was removed by a team of specialists shortly after it was completed during Banksy’s self-proclaimed New York City residency in the fall, said Stephan Keszler, the owner of Keszler Gallery in Manhattan and Southampton who purchased the work.

Splint


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
  • (v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
  • (v. t.) A splint bone.
  • (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
  • (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
  • (v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
  • (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
  • (v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (2) The pain response will be significantly better than the dysfunction response when the patient is treated with an occlusal splint.
  • (3) A review of the data on splinting of hands in RA is included, as is a review of methods for evaluating hand function and staging RA.
  • (4) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
  • (5) Primary sternal closure was difficult and delayed closure was performed using splint with a resin plate.
  • (6) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
  • (7) Histological evaluation was performed after splinting periods of 48 h and 6 weeks.
  • (8) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
  • (9) Since fractures of the foramen triosseum are usually not surgically repairable, they can be stabilized with coaptation splints.
  • (10) The MMPS is now the preferred splint at the Royal Brisbane Hospital Burns Unit.
  • (11) To study the influence of splints on the periodontia over a period of time, Obwegeser and Merkx splints were applied on beagles.
  • (12) Just over one-third of respondents never or 'rarely' (less than 1 in 50 cases) used splints for procedures involving both walls of the nasal cavity.
  • (13) Long-term rubbing of a pressure stocking and splint was believed to be responsible for breakdown in the graft of the patient who had a hypertrophic scar.
  • (14) The use of the splint is a very important step in the treatment of the dysfunctional patient.
  • (15) Ninety-two patients with tendon rupture or chip fracture were treated by splinting, and 42 percent of them had a decreased range of motion, mostly of a minor degree, but only 18 percent stated complaints at the follow-up examination.
  • (16) Postoperative use of very small polyethylene tubing for splints appears feasible.
  • (17) This test has been reliable in evaluating lacrimal function and suggests that a canaliculus can be repaired and splinted satisfactorily.
  • (18) This report summarizes the experience of treating seven extremity melanoma patients with early immobilization and discharge using plaster casting or splinting following wide local excision and split-thickness skin graft.
  • (19) Orthodontic appliances (83.9%) were used in the departments of orthodontics for intermaxillary fixation, while orthodontic appliances (47.8%) and wire splints (49.2%) were used in the departments of oral surgery.
  • (20) Night splints or operative procedures are rarely indicated.

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