cataplasm

[ kat-uh-plaz-uhm ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. poultice.

cataplasm

/ ˈkætəˌplæzəm /

noun

1. med another name for poultice

Word History and Origins

Origin of cataplasm¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cataplasm¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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Curumilla, after having washed the wounds with clean cold water, applied a cataplasm to them of bruised oregano leaves.

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A plaster or cataplasm, with opium and camphor on the region of the stomach, will sometimes revert its retrograde motions.

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A cataplasm applied in inflammations, Anthony's fire, &c., represses them.

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