单词 | adhesive plaster |
释义 | > as lemmasadhesive plaster adhesive plaster n. (a) a medicated paste containing one or more sticky ingredients, used as a poultice or to attach a dressing or bandage to the skin (now rare); (b) (in later use) material used to dress superficial wounds of the skin, consisting of fabric or (later) plastic spread with an adhesive substance; a strip, patch, etc., of such material, now esp. one incorporating a gauze dressing; also figurative; cf. sticking plaster n., Band-Aid n. ΚΠ 1714 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis ii. ii. 146 If the Hair..lies in the Way, they are first of all to be taken away,..drawing them up all at once (tho' painfully) by a Pitch or other common adhesive Plaister. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 522 The wound of the integuments was contracted with strips of adhesive plaster. 1917 H. V. Arny Princ. Pharmacy (ed. 2) xxi. 341 Emplastrum belladonnæ... An adhesive plaster containing 30 per cent. of extract of belladonna leaves. 1970 T. Draper Rediscov. Black Nationalism xi. 175 Whether any ‘federalism’ could be much more than an adhesive plaster on a torn and bleeding body politic strikes me as very doubtful. 2002 D. Hart Crooked Cross Factor xv. 164 I put a hand up gingerly to the back of my head. Someone had stuck an adhesive plaster over the cut and bruised flesh. < as lemmas |
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