emplastron

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron, daub, salve).

Noun

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emplastron (plural emplastra)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A plaster.
    • 1851, Monthly Journal of Medical Science, volume 12, page 49:
      In his observations, however, upon the different forms of emplastra (and many of which were named Melina), Galen gives a sufficient explanation of the origin of this term as it was applied to plasters; []
    • 1946, Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, volume 35, page 199:
      He did, however, use an emplastron on a Negro boy, set a broken jaw for a Negro mand and made an examination per vaginum on a Negro woman.