From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsurgical stocking/collar etcsurgical stocking/collar etcBritish EnglishMD a stocking etc that someone wears to support a part of their body that is injured or weak → surgical
Examples from the Corpus
surgical stocking/collar etc• This time we had the welcome addition of a sheepskin backrest, an inflatable neck support and a selection of surgical collars.• Paramedics treated the driver of the second car for shock and applied a surgical collar to the policeman. 