suspensory bandage

1. 1.

   a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast)

   Synonymssuspensory

   Broaderbandage

Questions about suspensory bandage

What does suspensory bandage mean?

suspensory bandage means "a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast)".

What is another word for suspensory bandage?

Close synonyms include suspensory. 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 suspensory bandage a common word?

suspensory 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.