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bandage

UK/ˈbæn.dɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈbæn.dɪd͡ʒ/
nounB1Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,913 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: bandages

A bandage is the cloth you wrap around a hurt arm or leg. Wrap the bandage, a clean bandage, change the bandage.

It holds a dressing in place rather than covering the wound itself, which is the difference between the two words. Wrapping it too tight is the standard error — check the fingers or toes beyond it for colour and warmth.

Sosias (potter, signed). Painting attributed to the Sosias Painter (name piece for Beazley, overriding attribution) or the Kleophrades Painter (Robertson) or Euthymides (Ohly-Dumm) · Public domain

Definitions of bandage

  1. 1nounbandageA strip of cloth wrapped around an injury.B1

    “The nurse wrapped a clean bandage around his cut arm.”

bandage is a dressing.

Also accepted in games: plaster

Where it comes from

  1. French

    bandage

  2. English, today

    bandage

Borrowed from French bandage.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Body & Health

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bandage in the wild

  • A bandage is a piece of material used as support for a wound or injury, or to provide compression.

    Bandage

  • When used with a dressing, the dressing is applied directly on a wound, and a bandage is used to hold the dressing in place.

    Bandage

  • Each stick of gum was wrapped with paper made to look like a bandage and was packaged in a metallic container similar to that of a bandage box.

    Ouch! (gum)

  • Bandage scissors, or bandage forceps, are scissors that often have an angled tip with a blunt tip on the bottom blade.

    Bandage scissors

  • Bandage scissors are very popular in any health care facility because they are designed to safely lift bandages away from skin for easy cutting.

    Bandage scissors

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.