plaster jacket

It put protective plaster jackets around the exposed bones and reburied them.

Three days after that, a plaster jacket was fitted from her shoulders to her hips.

The doctor arrived very promptly and attempted to sound Michael's chest, but of course couldn't because of the plaster jacket.

The postcrania of the type specimen remains undescribed, still in its plaster jackets.

In progressive infantile and sometimes juvenile scoliosis, a plaster jacket applied early may be used instead of a brace.

He was in a plaster jacket from shoulders to hips, and could only walk slowly with difficulty, but he was home and cheerful!

Cobb experimented with various methods and concluded that the most effective approach was to use a turnbuckle plaster jacket in combination with spinal fusion.

Towards the end of 1942 he was released from his plaster jacket and fitted with a spinal brace, and in early 1943 he was mobile for the first time since the operation.

A mold is made from the clay pattern, either as a piece mold from plaster, or using flexible gel or similar rubber-like materials stabilized by a plaster jacket of several pieces.

He told Lisa that before the operation, and for a few months after, she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place.

Sue's bones, most of them still encased in the protective plaster jackets in which the institute had moved them from Mr. Williams's land, were locked under seal in a furnace room at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Abbott's method - treatment of scoliosis by lateral pulling and counterpulling on the spinal column by means of wide bandages and pads, until the deformity is over-corrected, and then applying a plaster jacket to produce pressure, counterpressure, and fixation of the spine in its correct position.