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compresses

n. (plural of compress English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: compress)

Usage examples of "compresses".

Herbert's wounds, covered with compresses and lint, were pressed neither too much nor too little, so as to cause their cicatrization without effecting any inflammatory reaction.

She murmured her thanks to the captain, who patted her shoulder and said, "Now keep putting compresses on her cheek.

One went down to the stable where the girl could not see, and practiced the exercises he had not done in years, until the leg ached enough to set his teeth on edge, and his back hurt, and he earnestly wished that he could make up an excuse to use the hot compresses himself.

Taizu was there to boil up the compresses, leaving him to tend his own hurt, and to keep it from stiffening.

She wet the compresses again, glad of the almost indestructible quality of Catteni materials, and then she moistened Zainal's lips.

Stop at once if it begins to hurt, and use warm compresses on it daily.

So, since trial wet compresses helped, more were made of bandage strips in the first-aid kit and wrapped around her arms and laid on her face and neck.

I selected a coil of blue nylon rope— it smelled of must but was essentially sound—an ice pick with a bound handle, gloves, a folding ice probe, and crampons, and stowed them next to the water, cheese, chocolate, flask, and thermal compresses in my pack.

I fished in it, standing, tilting it this way and that until the slippery plastic compresses slithered out into my clumsy hands.

I ended up having to use a doubled-over pillowcase as well as the compresses: I could not afford to bleed in public tomorrow.

The women were at work making compresses, Albert had been sent away.