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What is a plaster cast?

What is a plaster cast? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) A cast made of a stiff material (often plaster of Paris and gauze) in order to immobilize a broken bone for the period of healing.
  2. A copy of a piece of art or other object cast in plaster.
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After checking the x-rays, Rachael can see the wrist is broken and Sammy will need a plaster cast fitted.
Yesterday my prosthetist made a plaster cast which will form the basis of the new limb.
My brother, his leg in a plaster cast, kept a scrapbook of our first voyage out, in which he was the unfaltering hero.
Getting a plaster cast on your ankle after surgery may not be the best way to recover quickly.
The improvement obtained by manipulation is maintained by immobilizing the foot in a plaster cast for five to seven days.
Nothing, he heard, except for a terrible 19th-century plaster cast of some Laocoon group.

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