poultice
n : a soft usu. heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions to supply moist warmth, relieve pain, or act as a counterirritant or antiseptic - called also cataplasm , vt, -ticed -tic*ing : to apply a poultice to .
Similar sounding terms: pallidus
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