Definition of "sprains" []

• Plural form of sprain. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sprain. (verb)

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• "They treat patients who would normally be seen in a primary-care office, with conditions such as sprains, dental pains, rashes or back pain."
• "Among other causes, we may enumerate sprains or wounds of the flexor tendons, or any disease of the limbs for a long time preventing extension of the fetlock-joint, such as sprains or injuries of the posterior ligaments of the limb, splints or ringbones so placed as to interfere with the movements of the flexor tendons, or, in the hind-limb, spavin, keeping for some months the fetlock in a state of flexion."
• "Almost half of the injuries were "soft-tissue" injuries such as sprains and bruises, they noted."