Definition of gauze Gauze
/gɔˈz/ - [goz] - gauze
We found 13 definitions of gauze from 5 different sources.
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What does gauze mean?
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NounPlural: gauzes |
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| gauze - (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings | ||
| gauze bandage | ||
| cotton fabric woven from cotton fibers | ||
| bandage, patch a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | ||
| surgical dressing a loosely woven cotton dressing for incisions made during surgery | ||
| medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" | ||
| gauze - a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | ||
| netting, veiling | ||
| meshwork, meshing, mesh, network, net the act of interlocking or meshing; "an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check" | ||
| cheesecloth a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | ||
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Wiktionary 
- gauze (Noun)
A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. - gauze (Noun)
A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. - gauze (Noun)
A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. - gauze (Noun)
Wire gauze, used as fence. - gauze (Noun)
Mist or haze. - gauze (Verb)
To apply a dressing of gauze. - gauze (Verb)
To mist.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- gauze (n.)
A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. - gauze (a.)
Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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gauze
gawz, n. a thin, transparent fabric, originally of silk, now of any fine hard-spun fibre: material slight and open like gauze.—adj. Gauze′-winged, having gauzy wings.—n. Gauz′iness.—adj. Gauz′y.—n. Wire′-gauze (see Wire). [Fr. gaze, dubiously referred to Gaza in Palestine.]
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🔤- gauze, noun, singular of gauzes.
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