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Cravat bandage
A triangular bandage folded to form a band around an injured part.
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Cohesive bandage
A bandage made of material that sticks to itself but not to other substances; used to bandage fingers and extremities or to build up pads.
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Circular bandage
A bandage applied in circular turns about a part.
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Chest bandage
Figure-of-eight (spica), many-tailed (Scultetus), or triangular (open-chest) bandage for the chest.
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Butterfly bandage
An adhesive bandage formerly used in place of sutures to hold wound edges together. The application of filmy sterile adhesive strips has replaced this entity (e.g., Steri-Strips). A slender adhesive strip with broader, flared extremities resembling the shape of butterfly wings, employed to secure the edges of a wound in close proximity during the healing…
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Breast bandage
Suspensory bandage and compress for the breasts.
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Barton bandage
A double figure-of-eight bandage for the lower jaw.
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Back bandage
Open bandage to the back; applied the same as a chest bandage, the point being placed above the scapula of the injured side.
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Axilla bandage
A bandage with a spica-type turn starting under the affected axilla, crossing over the shoulder of the affected side, and making the long loop under the opposite armpit.
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Ankle bandage
Bandage in which one loop is brought around the sole of foot and the other around the ankle; it is secured in front or on the side.
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