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Medicine. A bandage stiffened with plaster of Paris and applied when wet to a broken limb, etc., for immobilization and support; = plaster, n. 3b.
Medicine. A plaster cast (plaster cast, n. 2).
an orthopaedic cast designed to allow a patient with a fractured leg to walk on the immobilized limb while it heals.
Medicine. = plaster cast, n. 2.