gauze bandage

1. 1.

   (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings

   Synonymsgauze

   Broadercotton

   Narrowerpetrolatum gauze

   Part ofbandagesurgical dressing

   medicine

Questions about gauze bandage

What does gauze bandage mean?

gauze bandage means "(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings".

What is another word for gauze bandage?

Close synonyms include gauze. 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 gauze bandage a common word?

gauze 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.