Identifier: practitionersmed00goul (find matches)
Title: The practitioner's medical dictionary; containing all the words and phrases generally used in medicine and the allied sciences, with their proper pronunciation, derivation, and definition
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922 Scott, R. J. E. (Richard John Ernst), 1863-1932
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Spica of Foot. Figure of 8 of Upper Extremity. BANDAGES 127 BANDAGES
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Spiral of the Chest. Desa ults Bandage. BANDAGER 128 BARFOEDS REAGENT making stiff and immovable dressings or bandages.According to their direction, bandages are classed as:I. Circular, circular turns about the part. 2. Figure-of-S, the turns crossing one another like the figure 8. 3. Oblique, covering the part by oblique turns. 4. Recurrent, the turns returning successively to thepoint of origin. 5. Spica, the turns resembling thearrangement of the husks of an ear of corn. 6. Spiral,each turn covering one-half of the preceding. 7.Spiral reverse, the bandage is reversed in orderbetter to adapt it to the part. Bandages are alsoclassed according to the part to which they areapplied. (See illustrations on pp. 126, 127.) b.,abdominal. See binder, b., recurrent, a bandageused after amputations, to support the flaps of thestump, b.s, T-, bandages shaped like the letter T. bandager (ban-da-jer). One skilled in the appli-cation of bandages. See dtesser. bandagist (ban-da-jist). A maker of tru

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