- Stader splint
- Sta·der splint 'stā-dər- n a splinting device consisting of two stainless steel pins inserted in the bone above and below a fracture and a bar joining the pins for drawing and holding the broken ends togetherStader Otto (1894-1962)American veterinary surgeon. Stader devised the Stader splint in 1931. He developed this type of splint because his canine patients gnawed off plaster casts fitted on their legs. After several years of use on animals, the splint was adopted for treating fractures in human patients.
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a splint used in veterinary medicine for external-internal fixation of fractures, consisting of a metal bar that bridges the fracture and has steel pins at each end for insertion into the bone; the ends of the fractured bone are drawn together by adjusting screws.
Medical dictionary. 2011.