Bandage vs Charpie - What's the difference?
bandage | charpie |
A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
* 1844: (Alexander Dumas), (The Count of Monte Cristo) [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_75]
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 To apply a bandage to something.
* 1879: Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=644473384&tag=Twain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+A+Tramp+Abroad,+1879&query=+bandaging&id=TwaTram]
(medicine) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth, used for surgical dressings.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between bandage and charpie
is that bandage is a strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury while charpie is straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth, used for surgical dressings.As a verb bandage
is to apply a bandage to something.bandage
English
(wikipedia bandage)Noun
(en noun)- he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage .
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
Derived terms
* adhesive bandage * compression bandage * gauze bandage * triangular bandageVerb
(bandag)- ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.