splint
SPLINT SPLINTER
A fragment split off fragmentum. A splinter of a broken bone ossis fragmentum (Celsus): to take out splinters fracta ossa extrahere (Plin.).
A thin piece of wood to keep a set bone in its place canalis: canaliculus (Celsus); also plur. ferulae [the stalks of that plant being used as splinters] to which Celsus adds explaining their use quae fissae circumpositaeque ossa in sua sede contineant (Celsus 8 10 1). To put on splinters ferulas accommodare or circumponere or imponere (Celsus ib.); ferulas circumdare (ib.).
A fragment split off fragmentum. A splinter of a broken bone ossis fragmentum (Celsus): to take out splinters fracta ossa extrahere (Plin.).
A thin piece of wood to keep a set bone in its place canalis: canaliculus (Celsus); also plur. ferulae [the stalks of that plant being used as splinters] to which Celsus adds explaining their use quae fissae circumpositaeque ossa in sua sede contineant (Celsus 8 10 1). To put on splinters ferulas accommodare or circumponere or imponere (Celsus ib.); ferulas circumdare (ib.).
splint:
I. Broken piece of bone: fragmentum (ossis): Cels.
II. In surgery:
1. fĕrŭla. to fit s.s (to a broken limb), ferulas accommodare et circumponere, ib.: imponere, ib. § 2.
2. cănālis, is, m. (a tubular s.: whereas the ferulae were thin boards put round the limb): to put a leg into a (tubular) s., crus in canalem conjicere, ib. 8, 10, 5. Also, canaliculus (strictly dimin.): ib.
I. Broken piece of bone: fragmentum (ossis): Cels.
II. In surgery:
1. fĕrŭla. to fit s.s (to a broken limb), ferulas accommodare et circumponere, ib.: imponere, ib. § 2.
2. cănālis, is, m. (a tubular s.: whereas the ferulae were thin boards put round the limb): to put a leg into a (tubular) s., crus in canalem conjicere, ib. 8, 10, 5. Also, canaliculus (strictly dimin.): ib.