cataplasm

Questions about cataplasm

What does cataplasm mean?

cataplasm means "a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.".

How many syllables are in cataplasm?

cataplasm has 3 syllables and divides as ca-ta-plasm under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cataplasm?

Close synonyms include poultice, plaster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cataplasm a common word?

cataplasm 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.