bandaging
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Covering a wound with cloth to protect it or stop bleeding
- noun
- /ˈbændɪdʒɪŋ/
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vendaje
- A follow-up at Vozandes soon afterward found that healing was progressing nicely, and the physician needed only to give some instruction for continued cleansing and bandaging.
- compression bandaging
Examples
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The first aid kit included everything necessary for bandaging cuts and scrapes.
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Cora is collecting and tearing linen into strips for bandaging.
Fiction book (1992) -
But we're going to the bandaging ward.
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Can you finish the bandaging?
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Laren watched Sarla oversee the bandaging, watched another woman, Bartha, tend to the bleeding nose.
Fiction book (1994) -
The nurse was skilled at bandaging wounds quickly and efficiently.
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After the accident, he needed proper bandaging to help heal his injuries.
How Thorough
Surface Forms
bandaging singular
bandagings plural
Morphology
Etymology
The word bandaging comes from bandage, from old words that mean 'to bind' or 'to wrap'. Think of a headband or a strip you wrap around something, and you have the idea: bandaging is wrapping a strip around a wound to protect it and hold it in place.