(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.
Sprint
Definition:
(v. i.) To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
(n.) The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.
Example Sentences:
(1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
(2) A timed sprint to exhaustion was performed after 45 min of exercise at 70% of VO2max, and a Wingate anaerobic test was used to measure total work and peak power.
(3) Nine well-trained subjects performed 15-, 30- and 45-s bouts of sprint exercise using a cycle ergometer.
(4) A major criticism of present models of the energetics and mechanics of sprint running concerns the application of estimates of parameters which seem to be adapted from measurements of running during actual competitions.
(5) Özil showed great determination to get into the six-yard area, sprinting forwards and turning in the cross with a stooping header.
(6) The final sprint comes after a year of wrangling in Congress, against a background of noisy public meetings and demonstrations.
(7) During 1981 to 1983, a secondary prevention study with nifedipine (SPRINT) was conducted in Israel among 2,276 survivors of acute myocardial infarction.
(8) These data suggest that intensive swimming training may prevent or delay the decline with age in the physiological factors affecting blood lactate values following a maximal sprint swim.
(9) Mark Cavendish, the flash "Manx Missile", who has won 25 stages of the Tour de France, thanks his "sprint train" with expensive watches and designer clobber when they lead him out to victory.
(10) Twice he sprinted off his line to deny a pair of Ballon d’Or winners, Roberto Baggio and George Weah .
(11) It was suggested that PRA increases are needed for increasing muscle stiffness to resist great impact forces at the beginning of contact during sprint running.
(12) Jason Kenny's campaign in the match sprint will not end until Monday assuming all goes well, but he got off to the best possible start when he set a new Olympic record in qualifying over the flying 200m, bettering Sir Chris Hoy's 9.815sec from Beijing by over a tenth of a second.
(13) Nations were allowed to sprint ahead of the pack on their own.
(14) We have performed initial clinical studies using the high resolution single photon ring tomograph (SPRINT) and Tc-99m HMPAO.
(15) The effect of heat acclimatization on aerobic exercise tolerance in the heat and on subsequent sprint exercise performance was investigated.
(16) From where he stood, the Real Madrid coach watched in awe as barely metres away Gareth Bale started the sprint that ended with him scoring what he admitted was the "biggest" goal of his career: a 50-metre gallop that won the Copa del Rey for Real Madrid .
(17) In Beijing I was very tired because I won the 200m final after six races and I was not experienced in sprinting.
(18) "Well, the competitive juices might just kick in as we sprinted for the line."
(19) As Wales laboured anxiously, white-shirted Russians were sprinting through from midfield to support Dmitry Bulykin.
(20) After 8 wk of training, small but significant decreases in lactate dehydrogenase activity (15%) were found in the soleus and white vastus lateralis muscles of the sprint animals.