cataplasm
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cataplasm
1555–65; < Latin cataplasma < Greek katáplasma. See cata-, -plasm
Vocabulary lists containing cataplasm
Example Sentences
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With this fragrant herb she made a cooling cataplasm.
From The Purple Land by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
"Don't! try not to cry any more! the thing to do now is to go and give her a spoonful of quinine; then we will put a cataplasm on her stomach."
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
By a continuation of this plan the wound gradually contracted, and, at length, when there was no further use for the cataplasm, the eschar became adherent and the sore healed underneath.
From An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers by Higginbottom, John
It will be easier to bear than the cataplasm I should have given you, had your apprehensions been well founded.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Monsieur Recamier has submitted to the Academy of Medicine a galvanic cataplasm, by which, when it is applied to the skin, the benefit of electricity is fully conveyed, without the least pain.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
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