A soft material for dressing wounds (formerly also to burn for tinder), prepared by ravelling or scraping linen cloth. †In plural, pieces of this…
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > lint, cotton, etc. (11) lintc1400 A soft material for dressing wounds (formerly also to burn for tinder), prepared by ravelling or scraping linen cloth. †In plural, pieces of this… caddis1738 Cotton wool, floss silk, or the like, used in padding: Scottish writers of the 18th cent. applied the name to ‘lint’ used in surgery. Obsolete. charpie1797 Old linen unravelled into short ends of thread for surgical dressings; ‘very narrow, thread-like strips of linen torn off so as to leave fringed… cotton batting1827 = cotton bat n. cotton bat1847 a thin sheet or roll of carded cotton; surgical cotton. stypium1871 A superior kind of carded oakum, used for surgical dressings. Gamgee (formerly also Gamgee's) tissue1883 Gamgee (formerly also †Gamgee's) tissue: an absorbent material used for dressings, consisting of a thickness of cotton wool enclosed between… tenax1889 A trade name of fine carded oakum used as a surgical dressing (Billings). Gamgee1890 Usually with lower-case initial. = Gamgee tissue at sense 1. Also simply: cotton wool. Also as adj.: made of this material. peat wool1895 a type of wool incorporating peat fibre. Thermogene1902 A proprietary name for medicated cotton wool. |
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