SURGICAL DRESSING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("surgical dressing" is a kind of...):

dressing; medical dressing (a cloth covering for a wound or sore)

Meronyms (parts of "surgical dressing"):

gauze; gauze bandage ((medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings)

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