Definition of cataplasm in English:
cataplasm
noun ˈkatəplaz(ə)mˈkædəˌplæzəm
archaic A plaster or poultice.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is used in the form of cataplasms, tonics, salves and plasters.
- It is employed where a cooling and astringent cataplasm is required.
- The thin aqueous cataplasm retains a moisture-protecting effect on the skin and provides comfortable feeling in its use.
- Some cataplasms were composed of barley flour in the form of paste after being well warmed.
- Pliny says, in so many words, that the cerates and cataplasms, plasters, collyria, and antidotes, so abundant in his time, as in more recent days, were mere tricks to make money.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French cataplasme or late Latin cataplasma, from Greek kataplasma, from kataplassein 'plaster over'.
Definition of cataplasm in US English:
cataplasm
nounˈkædəˌplæzəmˈkadəˌplazəm
archaic another term for poultice
Example sentencesExamples
- The thin aqueous cataplasm retains a moisture-protecting effect on the skin and provides comfortable feeling in its use.
- Pliny says, in so many words, that the cerates and cataplasms, plasters, collyria, and antidotes, so abundant in his time, as in more recent days, were mere tricks to make money.
- Some cataplasms were composed of barley flour in the form of paste after being well warmed.
- It is employed where a cooling and astringent cataplasm is required.
- It is used in the form of cataplasms, tonics, salves and plasters.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French cataplasme or late Latin cataplasma, from Greek kataplasma, from kataplassein ‘plaster over’.