cataplasm

[ kat-uh-plaz-uhm ]
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nounMedicine/Medical.

Origin of cataplasm

1
1555–65; <Latin cataplasma<Greek katáplasma.See cata-, -plasm

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How to use cataplasm in a sentence

  • Make a cataplasm of bean meal and salad oil, and lay it to the place afflicted.

  • By midnight Reardon lay in a comfortable room, a huge cataplasm fixed upon him, and other needful arrangements made.

    New Grub Street | George Gissing
  • Curumilla, after having washed the wounds with clean cold water, applied a cataplasm to them of bruised oregano leaves.

    The Adventurers | Gustave Aimard
  • A plaster or cataplasm, with opium and camphor on the region of the stomach, will sometimes revert its retrograde motions.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus Darwin
  • A cataplasm applied in inflammations, Anthony's fire, &c., represses them.

British Dictionary definitions for cataplasm

cataplasm

/ (ˈkætəˌplæzəm) /


noun
  1. med another name for poultice

Origin of cataplasm

1
C16: from Latin cataplasma, from Greek, from kataplassein to cover with a plaster, from plassein to shape

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