petrolatum gauze

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   gauze saturated with petrolatum

   Broadergauze

Questions about petrolatum gauze

What does petrolatum gauze mean?

petrolatum gauze means "gauze saturated with petrolatum".

Is petrolatum gauze a common word?

petrolatum gauze 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.