Usually means: Silicone plastic used in prosthetics.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silastic: Merriam-Webster
  2. silastic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Silastic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Silastic: Wiktionary
  5. Silastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Silastic: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Silastic: Dictionary.com
  8. Silastic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Silastic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silastic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Silastic: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Silastic)

noun:  A type of flexible, inert silicone rubber, used especially in prosthetic medicine to make devices such as shunts to control hydrocephalus, artificial heart valves and breast implants.

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