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Gauze bandage   /gɔz bˈændɪdʒ/   Listen
Gauze bandage

noun
1.
(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings.  Synonym: gauze.






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"Gauze bandage" Quotes from Famous Books



... fingers up and down the arm, finding that it was a clean break of one of the bones of the forearm, and not the wrist. Searching through his knapsack, he drew out what is known to first aid as a wire gauze bandage. This is nothing more than closely meshed wire, and is recommended for use for a temporary splint until ...
— The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers • Claude A. Labelle

... need two pieces of sterile white cotton tape or two pieces of 1-inch-wide sterile gauze bandage about 9 inches long to use to tie the cord. (If you do not have sterile material for tying the cord but do have facilities for boiling water, strips of sheeting—boiled for 15 to 20 minutes to make them sterile—can be used.) Tie the umbilical cord with the sterile tape in two ...
— Emergency Childbirth - A Reference Guide for Students of the Medical Self-help - Training Course, Lesson No. 11 • U. S. Department of Defense

... Cross First Aid Outfit is very convenient to use in fractures as well as in other injuries. The gauze bandage may be used for the strips to tie on the splints and the triangular bandage for an arm sling; or, if a sling is not needed, for strips to fix ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... regulation first field dressing by one of the wounded man's comrades, an orderly, or less commonly an officer or a medical man. This dressing is composed of a piece of gauze, a pad of flax charpie between layers of gauze, a gauze bandage 4-1/2 yards long, a piece of mackintosh water-proof, and two safety pins, enclosed in an air-tight cover. Mr. Cheatle,[13] in insisting on the importance of an immediate antiseptic dressing in the field, ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins

... be prepared over a water-bath, and two per cent. ichthyol added. A thin gauze bandage can be applied to the parts over which this dressing is painted, before it is completely dry; it makes a comfortable fixed dressing and may remain ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon



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