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cataplasm
[ kat-uh-plaz-uhm ]
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Origin of cataplasm1
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Example Sentences
Make a cataplasm of bean meal and salad oil, and lay it to the place afflicted.
By midnight Reardon lay in a comfortable room, a huge cataplasm fixed upon him, and other needful arrangements made.
Curumilla, after having washed the wounds with clean cold water, applied a cataplasm to them of bruised oregano leaves.
A plaster or cataplasm, with opium and camphor on the region of the stomach, will sometimes revert its retrograde motions.
A cataplasm applied in inflammations, Anthony's fire, &c., represses them.
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