zinc ointment

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   an ointment containing zinc that is used to treat certain skin diseases

   Broaderointment

Questions about zinc ointment

What does zinc ointment mean?

zinc ointment means "an ointment containing zinc that is used to treat certain skin diseases".

Is zinc ointment a common word?

zinc ointment 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.