immovable bandage
- noun
- /ˈɪmuːvəbl ˈbændɪdʒ/
- Specialized
:
vendaje inmovilizador
- The doctor applied an immovable bandage to ensure the fractured arm stayed in place during healing.
Examples
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After the surgery, an immovable bandage was necessary to prevent any movement of the patient's leg.
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Older treatments often used an immovable bandage instead of modern synthetic casts.
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The doctor applied an immovable bandage to stabilize the fracture.
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Have you ever seen an immovable bandage in action?
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After the surgery, an immovable bandage was necessary to prevent any movement of the patient's leg.
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The doctor applied an immovable bandage to ensure the fractured arm stayed in place during healing.
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Older treatments often used an immovable bandage instead of modern synthetic casts.
Synonyms
1
3.5
A cloth strip with a wet white paste that becomes hard to hold a broken bone still
How Rigid
- Specialized
84
3.5
- Specialized
- Specialized
12
5.3
1
2.6
1
2.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'immovable' (unable to be moved) + 'bandage' (material used to protect/support a wound), so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a bandage that prevents movement to stabilize an injury. Although the term is somewhat technical (plaster-like), its adj+noun composition is transparent and follows ordinary English semantic combination patterns.
Etymology
Immovable bandage comes from old medical practice where a bandage was soaked in plaster and, as it dried, became hard like a shell making the limb immovable. That's why it means a bandage that 'keeps a body part still' during healing.