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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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He has already had to place a plaster cast on Gregory Diez's fractured wrist and remedy a few cuts and burns, and a painful lumbago.
Nothing, he heard, except for a terrible 19th-century plaster cast of some Laocoon group.
The implant analog is connected to the impression coping to make the plaster cast.
Yesterday my prosthetist made a plaster cast which will form the basis of the new limb.
In fact, he was so desperate to get back on to his bike that we had to tell the doctor a little lie to persuade him to remove the plaster cast.
The improvement obtained by manipulation is maintained by immobilizing the foot in a plaster cast for five to seven days.

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