2. Verb. (third-person singular of sprain) ¹
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Definition of Sprains
1. sprain [v] - See also: sprain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprains
Literary usage of Sprains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pye's Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery by Walter Pye (1893)
"sprains vary infinitely in their severity, both in pain, and in the extent ...
The value of this "abortive" treatment of severe sprains when the cannot be ..."
2. Horses & Stables by Frederic Wellington Fitzwygram (1911)
"Nature of so-called sprains. 674. Structure of Tendons and Ligaments. ...
Distinction in Symptoms between sprains of the Flexor Tendons, and sprains of the ..."
3. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"sprains. Description.—sprains are the injuries produced by wrenching or twisting a
... Severe sprains should always be treated by a doctor, if possible. ..."
4. Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery, and by Walter Pye (1884)
"OF sprains. A sprain is a form of inflammation which may be either acute
sprains—defi- or ... sprains vary infinitely in their severity, both in pain, ..."
5. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1828)
"Memoir on sprains. By MA PELLETIER, Hospital Surgeon at Mans. ... This particularly
applies to the subject we have chosen, as sprains are thought to be ..."
6. The Retrospect of Medicine (1877)
"To quote one of the most recent and distinguished: " As to severe sprains, at
first, while the active state of effusion is present, antiphlogistic measures ..."
7. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1907)
"Chronic sprains.—In healthy persons sprains not infrequently fail to pursue the
course described above and become chronic. Such cases, as a rule, ..."
8. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"I need scarcely add that where wry-neck is due to spinal disease, no such treatment
as the above is applicable. CHAPTER XXX. CONTUSIONS, sprains, WOUNDS ..."
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