surgical dressing

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   a loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery

   Broaderdressing

   Partsgauze

Questions about surgical dressing

What does surgical dressing mean?

surgical dressing means "a loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery".

Is surgical dressing a common word?

surgical dressing 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.