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SURGICAL DRESSING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does surgical dressing mean?
• SURGICAL DRESSING (noun)
The noun SURGICAL DRESSING has 1 sense:
1. a loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery
Familiarity information: SURGICAL DRESSING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("surgical dressing" is a kind of...):
dressing; medical dressing (a cloth covering for a wound or sore)
Meronyms (parts of "surgical dressing"):
gauze; gauze bandage ((medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings)
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