A piece of sticking plaster used to cover and protect a wound or scar.

Originally: †a medicated paste containing one or more sticky ingredients, used as a poultice or to attach a dressing or bandage to the skin (obsolete)…

Surgery. The movement of the needle through the edges of a wound when it is being sewn up; each loop of thread or other material fastened in the…

Surgery. A strip of adhesive plaster used to hold together the edges of a wound, fasten on a dressing, etc.

silk used for dressing superficial wounds of the skin or for making patches for the face; cf. sticking plaster, n. 1, court-plaster, n.

Sticking-plaster made of silk (black, pale pink, or white) coated with isinglass, used for covering superficial cuts and wounds.

= adhesive plaster n. (b).

concrete. Surgery. Adhesive plaster for binding up wounds.

= adhesive plaster n. (b) at compounds.

A proprietary name for: a type of sticking-plaster with a gauze pad. Also, a strip of Band-Aid.

A proprietary name for a type of sticking-plaster, originally made of stretchable fabric and subsequently also of other materials. Also loosely…