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the humble stick that holds you together until your body remembers how
means A rigid strip of material bound alongside a broken bone or injured limb to hold it still while it heals.
from From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'splinte,' meaning a thin piece of metal or a pin — kin to 'splinter' and to the family of words about things split off, flat and slender. The sense of a thin slip used to immobilize an injury is the oldest English use, dating to medieval medicine.
- ancient tech
- Egyptian mummies wore bark-and-linen splints over 5,000 years ago
- DIY rule
- immobilize the joints above and below the break
- shin splints
- named for pain, not an actual splint involved
- finger fix
- a taped neighbor finger becomes a living buddy splint
- horse word
- splint also names a small bone in a horse's leg
manchester united's 1992 split — the team divided into manchester united and manchester city after financial restructuring, 1992
bell telephone breakup — at&t's monopoly split into 7 regional companies by us court order, 1982
korean peninsula division — korea split at the 38th parallel into north and south korea, 1945