spiral bandage

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   an oblique bandage in which successive turns overlap preceding turns

   Broaderoblique bandage

Questions about spiral bandage

What does spiral bandage mean?

spiral bandage means "an oblique bandage in which successive turns overlap preceding turns".

Is spiral bandage a common word?

spiral 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.