Cataplasm: alternatives and connections

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of…

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are convert…

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute…

semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation

The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of…

A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.

A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alka…

A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.

To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.

To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.

To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.

Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark,…

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

a soft moist part of a fruit

A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality;…

An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae.