Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Sta·der splint Pronunciation:
'stA-d&r- Function:
noun : a splinting device consisting of two stainless steel pins inserted in thebone above and below a fracture and a bar joining the pins for drawing and holding the broken ends together
Stader,
Otto (1894–1962), American veterinary surgeon. Staderdevised the Stader splint in 1931. He developed this type of splint because his canine patients gnawed off plaster casts fitted on their legs. After several years of use on animals, the splint wasadopted for treating fractures in human patients.
[stey-der] 
