adhesive bandage

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   bandage consisting of a medical dressing of plain absorbent gauze held in place by a plastic or fabric tape coated with adhesive

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Questions about adhesive bandage

What does adhesive bandage mean?

adhesive bandage means "bandage consisting of a medical dressing of plain absorbent gauze held in place by a plastic or fabric tape coated with adhesive".

Is adhesive bandage a common word?

adhesive bandage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.