gauze bandage

English Thesaurus

1. (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	cotton,
definition	:	fabric woven from cotton fibers (noun.artifact)

hyponym	:	petrolatum gauze,
definition	:	gauze saturated with petrolatum (noun.artifact)

part meronym	:	bandage, patch,
definition	:	a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body (noun.artifact)

part meronym	:	surgical dressing,
definition	:	a loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery (noun.artifact)

domain category	:	medical specialty, medicine,
definition	:	the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques (noun.cognition)