Splint
Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 43
(splint.) [ Dan., a splinter.) (Surg.) A piece of wood or paste-board shaped so as conveniently to support a broken or debilitated limb.-(Vet. Surg.) A bony excrescence which sometimes appears on the inside of one or both forelegs of a horse, between the large and small cannon-bones, or the knee and the fetlock. It is, in most cases, super induced by overworking the animal when young, before his bones have become properly hardened. [s. 848]
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