wet pack

American  

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. a type of bath in which wet sheets are applied to the patient.

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wet pack British  

noun

1. med a hot or cold damp sheet or blanket for wrapping around a patient

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Example Sentences

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wet pack

I emerged, soaked, and returned the wet pack to my back.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2011

"Until they come and put me in a wet pack."

From Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

There are two general methods of canning shrimp—the "dry pack" and "wet pack."

From Every Step in Canning by Grace Viall Gray

There is nothing able to relieve the patient as much as the dampness of the wet pack.

From Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms by Charles Munde

The girls had taken the wet pack from Jim and were dragging it up the bluff.

From The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains by Janet Aldridge

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