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bandage [′ban·dij]

(building construction)

A strap, band, ring, or chain placed around a structure to secure and hold its parts together, as around the springing of a dome.

(electricity)

Rubber ribbon about 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide for temporarily protecting a telephone or coaxial splice from moisture.

(medicine)

A strip of gauze, muslin, flannel, or other material, usually in the form of a roll, but sometimes triangular or tailed, used to hold dressing in place, to apply pressure, to immobilize a part, to support a dependent or injured part, to obliterate tissue cavities, or to check hemorrhage.

bandage

A strap, band, ring, or chain placed around a structure to secure and hold its parts together, as around the springing of a dome.

Bandage

a soft or rigid material used to secure a dressing on a wound (protective bandage), create pressure on a part of the body to halt venous bleeding (pressure bandage), or keep an injured part of the body, usually an extremity, in the necessary position (immobilizing bandage).

Protective and pressure bandages are usually applied from a roll of gauze over a sterile dressing of gauze or cotton placed on a wound. Several types of protective bandages can be used, depending on the topography of the part of the body to be bandaged. Examples are circular, figure-of-8, and spica bandages. Cleol (a composite of rosin, ethyl alcohol, ether, and sunflower oil) and adhesive bandages can also be used to secure a dressing. An immobilizing bandage is ordinarily used for a fracture or extensive injury to soft tissue and can be made of wood, wire, or plastic. Such a bandage is called a splint, and the procedure for applying it splinting. The application of bandages is a first-aid procedure.

Inflatable coverings—pneumatic splints that uniformly encircle and immobilize the body—are used for prolonged and difficult transport of a victim (for example, from a mine) and for the immobilization of the extremities or the entire body. Plaster casts are commonly used for fractures.

V. F. POZHARISKII

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Initial immobilization in either a sling or a figure-of-eight bandage remains the norm.

Midshaft clavicle fractures in adults by Preston, Charles F.; Egol, Kenneth A. / Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

A figure-of-eight bandage was applied to each wing such that the carpus was bandaged against the body.

Bilateral valgus deformity of the distal wings (angel wing) in a ... by Zsivanovits, Petra; Monks, Deborah J.; Forbes, Neil A. / Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery

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