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GAUZE BANDAGE

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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)

Sense 1

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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)

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