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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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