dusting powder
a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
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This is painted over the parts and allowed to dry, and a mild dusting powder sprinkled over.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonThe same applications or a dusting powder of calomel may also be used on moist papules.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonIodol may also be applied to ulcers as a dusting-powder, usually mixed with one to several parts of zinc oxide or boric acid.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonThe entire wound is then covered with a dusting powder composed of zinc oxide, boric acid, exsiccated alum, phenol and camphor.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor LacroixHe left the colt in the pasture and all the care it received was the regular application of a proprietary dusting powder.
Lameness of the Horse | John Victor Lacroix
British Dictionary definitions for dusting-powder
fine powder (such as talcum powder) used to absorb moisture, etc
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