splints

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• Splints — is an ailment of the horse or pony, characterized by a hard, bony swelling, usually on the inside of a front leg, lying between the splint and cannon bone or on the splint bone itself. It may be hot, meaning that it occurred recently and is still …   Wikipedia

• splints — Exostoses occurring along the course of the small metacarpal and metatarsal bones of the horse. See splint. * * * (splints) development of exostoses, sometimes with inflammation, of the splint bones of horses …   Medical dictionary

• splints — noun Splints is used after these nouns: ↑shin …   Collocations dictionary

• splints — splɪnt n. thin piece of wood or other material used to immobilize a broken bone while it is healing v. apply a splint, immobilize a broken bone by means of a splint …   English contemporary dictionary

• splints — plural of splint present third singular of splint …   Useful english dictionary

• Shin splints — or medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) refers to pain along or just behind the shins with sports that apply extreme pressure to the legs, such as gymnastics. Ten to fifteen percent of running injuries are shin splints. Contents 1 Causes 2… …   Wikipedia

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• shin splints — noun painful inflammation of the muscles around the shins; frequent among runners • Hypernyms: ↑inflammation, ↑redness, ↑rubor * * * noun plural but singular in construction : injury to and inflammation of the tibial and toe extensor muscles or… …   Useful english dictionary

• shin splints — n pl but sing or pl in constr painful injury to and inflammation of the tibial and toe extensor muscles or their fasciae that is caused by repeated minimal traumas (as by running on a hard surface) * * * an overuse injury characterized by strain… …   Medical dictionary

• coaptation splints — small splints adjusted about a fractured limb for the purpose of producing coaptation of fragments …   Medical dictionary

• shin splints — shin′ splints n. (used with a pl. v.) pat a painful condition of the front lower leg associated with muscle strain or stress of the tibia from strenuous activity • Etymology: 1940–45 …   From formal English to slang