gauze
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3.6
- noun
- /ɡɔz/
:
gasa
- Better give me all your gauze, nurse.
- a gauze pad
- a gauze dressing
- apply gauze
OK, got to control the bleed Quick clot combat gauze.
- OK, got to control the bleed Quick clot combat gauze.
- So it includes like tweezers, gauze.
- If you want to get really ambitious you could obtain Tarleton, which is a very lightweight cotton gauze fabric that has been stiffened.
- And somebody had cut off its tail and then wrapped the stub with gauze and and medical tape.
- Make quite strong green tea, pour it into an ice tray and then just buy some some gauze from the chemist, cut it into squares.
- I felt like Skeletor I and I just, I wore like this gauze patch over my face during that time.
- Up yours with gauze 'cause at least he wants to be sanitary.
- I've got a couple chest seals, gauze.
- Just to sharpen up some of the motion blur on the the speedy globs of gauze.
- Little Clifford the dog, little tickle me Elmo, you know, had a gauze kit for like a burn victim type of thing in there.
Examples
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Jacob's face is bruised, and he has a gauze pad over his ear.
Fiction book (1990) -
A spot of blood shows through the cap of gauze on her left thumb.
Fiction book (1992) -
We had to stuff some gauze up there.
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- I need more gauze, now!
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Now I have to clean the blood from the wound, and so I'm going to use gauze to do that.
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I wrapped his thumb with gauze and wished I had an Ace bandage.
Fiction book (1994) -
Petar turned away, but the doctor put on a pad of gauze and tightened the bandages around it.
Fiction book (1993) -
A crust of blood had appeared through the gauze he'd taped to his forehead.
Fiction book (1994) -
Anti-septic, penicillin, gauze, stitches.
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The doctor applied a layer of gauze to protect the patient’s cut.
Synonyms
3
2.8
A piece of clean cloth placed over a wound to protect it
1
2.6
A thin cotton cloth used to cover and protect a wound
A gauze soaked in petroleum jelly to protect wounds and keep them moist
A clean pad of cotton or gauze that covers a wound after surgery to protect it
A clean piece of cloth or pad placed over a wound to protect it
Compounds
- Specialized
A gauze soaked in petroleum jelly to protect wounds and keep them moist
How Thin
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gauze probably comes from an old word for a fine cloth, either Arabic qazz meaning 'raw silk' or the city Gaza where delicate fabric was made. So a gauze is a thin, open cloth, which is why we use it for bandages.