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GAUZE BANDAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
Synonyms:
gauze; gauze bandage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gauze bandage" is a kind of...):
cotton (fabric woven from cotton fibers)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gauze bandage"):
petrolatum gauze (gauze saturated with petrolatum)
Holonyms ("gauze bandage" is a part of...):
bandage; patch (a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body)
surgical dressing (a loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery)
