plaster cast

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Noun

plaster cast (plural plaster casts)

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.

   The police got a plaster cast of the suspect's footprint.

Synonyms

• cast
• plaster
• (chiefly East Midlands) pot

Translations

healing aid

• Afrikaans: gips
• Catalan: guix (ca) m
• Danish: gipsbandage c
• Finnish: kipsi (fi)
• German: Gips (de) m, Gipsverband (de) m
• Hungarian: gipsz (hu), gipszkötés (hu)
• Italian: ingessatura (it) f
• Maori: pāpāuku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gipsbandasje m

  Nynorsk: gipsbandasje m

• Polish: gips (pl) m
• Portuguese: gesso (pt)
• Russian: гипсовая повя́зка (gipsovaja povjázka)
• Scots: stookie
• Spanish: yeso (es) m
• Swedish: gipsförband n

copy

• Afrikaans: gipsafdruk
• Czech: sádrový odlitek m
• Finnish: kipsivalos, valos (fi)
• German: Abguß (de) m, Gipsabguß (de) m, Gipsabdruck (de) m
• Hungarian: öntvény (hu), gipszöntvény (hu)