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body cast

A cast used to immobilize the spine. It may extend from the thorax to the pelvis.

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One stumble could mean months in a body cast. Willow's condition is expensive, and her family faces financial ruin.

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He contracted polio at just over a year old, spent much of his childhood in a full body cast, and lived about four decades longer than doctors predicted.

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At three, she had to spend 23 hours a day in a full body cast to ease her painful and distressing condition.

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He played tournaments wearing a body cast from the neck to his hips in the months that followed, and today he has a 16-inch metal rod in his spine.

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but one theory is he wears a strengthened body cast under his suit with a false arm attached to the building hiding a length of steel.

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24, the Texan was back in his native state at the Naval Hospital at Corpus Christi where he would spend the next 22 months, 12 of which were spent in a full body cast while his reattached legs healed.

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Treatment required him to be in a body cast and wheelchair; in short, he lost his ability to walk for two years.

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A glass case prominently placed at the top of the stairs contained Baartman's body cast and organs.

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He was finally discharged home five months after the accident, in a full fibreglass body cast that was removed a year later.

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But the hordes of panting males - and a few females - were left disappointed as a strip of frosted window covered the modesty of the model, who is having her legendary body cast for charity.

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Yet the aborted child is a pariah: its tiny broken body cast away in a garbage bag shroud or incinerated.

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Robson returned home from Poland on Tuesday afternoon sporting a plaster body brace likened to a suit of armour, and though doctors in Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital removed the offending item, he will have to wear a plastic body cast for at least a couple of months.