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cataplasm

[ kat-uh-plaz-uhm ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.


cataplasm

/ ˈkætəˌplæzəm /

noun

  1. med another name for poultice
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cataplasm1

1555–65; < Latin cataplasma < Greek katáplasma. See cata-, -plasm
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cataplasm1

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

Mustard or aromatic cataplasms may at all times be used with hopes of favorable effects.

There were for external use, amulets, oils, ointments, liniments, plasters, cataplasms, salves, poultices; also sacculi, little bags of flowers, seeds, herbs, etc., and pomanders and posies.

"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."

Cupping-glasses, leeches, cataplasms, blood-lettings—in all which things the populace has so blind a confidence—were held in high honour in our hospital.

True there will be no end of bleedings and cataplasms, but the whole of modern medical science is absolutely thrown away upon them.

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