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湿布 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • compress verb To squeeze or press something into a smaller space.

Senses

湿布 is used for these senses in English:

  • compress (medicine) A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
  • fomentation The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain by relaxing the skin, or of discussing (dispersing) tumours.

compress — full definition

  1. verb To squeeze or press something into a smaller space.
  2. verb (computing) To reduce the size of a digital file by encoding it more efficiently.
  3. noun A folded pad of cloth, sometimes cold or warmed, pressed against part of the body to relieve pain or swelling.

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