WordNet
n. a loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery
Usage examples of "surgical dressing".
Although this particular use of the moss is generally looked upon as an innovation, we owe the introduction of Sphagnum Moss as a modern surgical dressing to Germany, where its value for this purpose was quite accidentally discovered in the early eighties.
When she peeled the sheet back below the surgical dressing and realized she was looking at the body of an ape, she simply froze before passing out.
I don't want to change a surgical dressing, I want to apply the pressure that stops the bleeding.
After that he sorted out a surgical dressing in a sterile wrapping.
Abject apologies, restoring the patient with what few drops of brandy still remained, splinting and taping my ankle in a surgical dressing took about ten minutes.
This last owed its origins to a Dr Gamgee, a Birmingham man who had invented gamgee-tissue, a surgical dressing made from cotton wool.
He peeled off the hairpiece as if it were a surgical dressing, and I shut my eyes in sympathy as the sudden light blinded her.