noun / verb
poultice
POHL-tis/ˈpəʊltɪs/
A soft, moist substance applied to the body as a treatment.
A soft, moist poultice rests in clean linen on the tray.
Etymology
Latin puls meant porridge or thick gruel. The medicinal dressing carries that porridge-like image: a soft, moist mass of meal and other ingredients laid against the body.
In context
if you're having pain on your hand on your knee on your back anywhere having pain you can just apply it as a poultice
More examples
- The nurse in the historical novel prepared a poultice.
- A cloth held the soft poultice in place.
- The record says the swollen area was poulticed.
Forms
poultice · poultices · poulticed · poulticing