GAUZE BANDAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does gauze bandage mean?
• GAUZE BANDAGE (noun)
The noun GAUZE BANDAGE has 1 sense:
1. (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
Familiarity information: GAUZE BANDAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GAUZE BANDAGE (noun)
Meaning:
(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
gauze; gauze bandage
Hypernyms ("gauze bandage" is a kind of...):
cotton; cotton cloth (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)