GAUZE BANDAGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)